Holly Rachel Candy, known professionally as Holly Valance, is an Australian former actress and singer.
19 Facts About Holly Valance
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Holly Valance is best known as Felicity Scully on the Australian soap opera Neighbours and Nika Volek in Prison Break.
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Holly Valance was born on 11 May 1983, as Holly Rachel Vukadinovic, in Fitzroy, Victoria to a Serbian father, Rajko Vukadinovic, and a British mother, Rachel, of English and Spanish descent.
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Holly Valance's father was a former pianist and model in his native Belgrade, Serbia, former Yugoslavia.
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Holly Valance's mother, whose father was a relative of Benny Hill, was a model in the United Kingdom.
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Rajko later remarried and Holly has a half-sister, Olympia, who has acted in Neighbours.
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In 1999 at age 16, Holly Valance was cast in the Australian TV soap opera, Neighbours, as Felicity "Flick" Scully.
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Holly Valance co-wrote the album track, "The Harder They Come", with Rob Davis, who supplied guitar for the album.
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Holly Valance dropped London Recordings in 2004 and said she is no longer interested in recording music.
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In 2004, Holly Valance returned to acting, this time in the United States, appearing in episodes of the television series CSI: Miami and Entourage.
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Holly Valance appeared in Prison Break in 2006 as Nika Volek, a role which she continued to portray in the show's second season.
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Holly Valance took part in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing, where she was paired with the professional winner of series 8, Artem Chigvintsev.
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Holly Valance starred in the Miss Marple television episode called "The Pale Horse".
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In 2011, Holly Valance appeared in an advert for Foster's Gold bottled beer.
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In 2013, Holly Valance was mentor and judge of fashion competition Shopaholic Showdown.
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In 2013, Holly Valance took a hiatus from her artistic career to prioritize her family and has been doing only charity work ever since as Ambassador of The Children's Trust, the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability.
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From 2005 to 2009 Holly Valance dated Australian actor Alex O'Loughlin.
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In November 2013, Holly Valance gave birth in London to their first child, a daughter.
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In January 2002, Holly Valance fired her then-manager Scott Michaelson by telephone, 15 months before his contract was due to expire.