Belinda Jane Emmett was an Australian actress and singer.
21 Facts About Belinda Emmett
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Belinda Emmett was best known for her roles in the TV drama series Home and Away and All Saints as well as the sitcom Hey Dad.
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Belinda Emmett was married to Australian television host, comedian and media personality Rove McManus.
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Emmett was born in Gosford to Michael and Laraine Emmett and grew up in Umina Beach, on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
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Belinda Emmett had three siblings named Matthew, Shane and Lesley.
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Belinda Emmett went to school at St John's at Woy Woy, St Joseph's at Gosford and Corpus Christi College.
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Belinda Emmett worked at the local Coast Rock FM radio station and sang lead vocals in the band Big Baby Jam.
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Belinda Emmett posed naked in the special "Angels and Devils" edition of the Australian nude celebrity art magazine Black+White.
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From 2000 to 2001, Belinda Emmett played Jodi Horner the Ward Clerk, in the medical drama All Saints.
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In 1998, Belinda Emmett released a cover of Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall".
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On 29 January 2005, Belinda Emmett married comedian and TV personality Rove McManus, at the Mary Immaculate Church in Waverley in the eastern part of Sydney.
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Belinda Emmett walked down the aisle to Stevie Wonder's ballad "You Are the Sunshine of My Life".
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Belinda Emmett was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998, aged 24.
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Belinda Emmett left the cast of Home and Away the following year and went on to appear in nine episodes of All Saints as Jodi Horner between 2000 and 2001.
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In September 2001, on the set of the Australian film The Nugget in which she co-starred as Cheryl with Eric Bana, Belinda Emmett began to experience intense back pain.
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On 11 November 2006, Belinda Emmett died from cancer at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, at the age of 32.
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Belinda Emmett had been there since reportedly suffering "stroke-like symptoms" the previous Monday.
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Belinda Emmett's funeral was held at 11am on 17 November 2006 in Sydney's Mary Immaculate Church, the place where she married Rove McManus 18 months before.
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On 16 November 2006, Belinda Emmett's family released one of her songs, "Less Than Perfect", on Odeo.
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Profits from Hooch Records, the company Belinda Emmett formed with McManus to release the album, were sent to the McGrath Foundation to support breast-care nurses.
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Belinda Emmett's song was extracted from her So I Am album, and the track is 'dedicated with love' to her.