1. Isabel Lucas was born on 29 January 1985 and is an Australian actress, environmentalist and model.
36 Facts About Isabel Lucas
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Isabel Lucas is best known for her roles in Home and Away, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Daybreakers, The Waiting City, The Pacific, Immortals, A Heartbeat Away, Red Dawn, The Loft, The Water Diviner, Knight of Cups, and That's Not Me.
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Later in 2009, Lucas won Best Breakout Performance Female at SPIKE TV's 2009 Scream Awards for her role in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
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In 2011 Isabel Lucas won a Young Hollywood Award for Female Star of Tomorrow.
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In 2012, Isabel Lucas starred in Ed Sheeran's "Give Me Love" music video.
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Isabel Lucas was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 29 January 1985, and is the daughter of Andrew, a biodynamic farmer and retired pilot, and Beatrice, a special needs teacher.
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Isabel Lucas's father is Australian and her mother is Swiss.
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Isabel Lucas can speak French and Swiss-German in addition to English.
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Isabel Lucas lived in Lucerne, Switzerland and Kakadu, in Australia's Northern Territory.
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Isabel Lucas was involved in drama during her school years and attended courses at the Victorian College of Arts and Queensland University of Technology.
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In 2002, her now agent Sharron Meissner claimed to have discovered Isabel Lucas walking on the beach at Port Douglas.
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In 2008, Isabel Lucas moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career further.
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Isabel Lucas said that the filming process was a lot different from Home Away, where she would spend hours shooting various episodes all in one go.
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In 2008, Isabel Lucas was cast in the vampire science-fiction thriller film Daybreakers and in 2009, she was cast as the character Erica Martin in the remake of the 1984 film Red Dawn alongside fellow Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, which was ultimately released in November 2012.
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In 2009, Isabel Lucas played Scarlett in the romantic film The Waiting City.
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In 2011, Isabel Lucas played the goddess Athena in the fantasy film Immortals, and signed on to appear in the film Knight of Cups, which was released in 2015.
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In November 2012, Isabel Lucas was featured as the main character in the music video for "Give Me Love" by British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran.
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In 2014, Isabel Lucas was featured in the documentary That Sugar Film directed by Damon Gameau, on the topic of the effect that sugar has on the human body, and the need to eat truly healthy foods.
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In 2017, Isabel Lucas appeared in the Australian comedy-drama film, That's Not Me, beside Alice Foulcher, Richard Davies, and Rowan Davie, which was released worldwide on 7 September the same year.
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From 2017 to 2018, Isabel Lucas played Samantha Cage in CBS's remake of the series MacGyver.
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Isabel Lucas began filming the Australian biographical-drama film In Like Flynn in February 2017, with British and Australian actors William Moseley, Clive Standen, Corey William Large, David Wenham and actress Nathalie Kelley.
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Isabel Lucas appeared in the Australian drama-thriller Shooting in Vain, directed by Jared Januscka, which was released on worldwide in 2018.
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Isabel Lucas later appeared as Katie in Sons of Summer, a crime-action film that was released on July 28,2023.
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Isabel Lucas has been described as having a shy and quiet personality.
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Isabel Lucas has spoken about being overwhelmed by how people would see her when she went on her first audition for Home and Away.
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Isabel Lucas dated Chris Hemsworth after meeting him on the set of Home and Away, between 2005 and 2008.
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Isabel Lucas then dated American actor Adrian Grenier, who broke up with her in July 2008 following a car accident involving American actor Shia LaBeouf; Grenier saw Lucas hanging out with LaBeouf.
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Isabel Lucas was in a relationship with Australian folk singer Angus Stone from 2010 to 2012.
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Isabel Lucas became a vegetarian after watching the documentary Earthlings in the house of Anthony Kiedis.
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Isabel Lucas relocated to Australia from the United States in 2016 to work on Australian films that were in production at the time.
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Isabel Lucas stated that she usually travels back and forth between Los Angeles and Australia for film, but prefers Australia as her permanent residence.
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Isabel Lucas supported anti-5G theories regarding its rollout in Australia, and was a guest speaker at an anti-5G rally in October 2020 in Byron Bay, stating that 5G could be "potentially ushering a regime of total surveillance".
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In February 2021, Isabel Lucas showed support for Australian chef Pete Evans, who was banned from Instagram for his views on COVID-19 and vaccination, in an Instagram post about freedom of speech, comparing Evans to historical change-makers such as Jesus.
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In October 2007, Isabel Lucas was part of a group of 30 people from Surfers for Cetaceans, including American actress Hayden Panettiere, surfers David Rastovich and Vaya Phrachanh, who took part in a protest against dolphin culling in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.
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In 2004, Isabel Lucas served as a spokesperson for the Australian National Breast Cancer Foundation and provided support to many organisations, including World Vision as of 2009, The Humour Foundation as of 2004, Oxfam Community Aid Abroad as of 2006, Global Green Plan as of 2009, Save the Whales Again as of 2010 and Sea Shepherd as of 2012.
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Isabel Lucas won a Logie Award for new popular talent for her performance in the Home and Away series, and won the best Breakout Performance-Female at the 2009 Scream Awards on 17 October 2009, for her performance of Alice in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.