Kestie Morassi was born on 9 August 1978 and is an Australian film and television actress.
13 Facts About Kestie Morassi
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Kestie Morassi played Natalie in the TV series Satisfaction and Maggie Astoni in Home and Away.
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Kestie Morassi lived in Adelaide until she was thirteen years old.
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Kestie Morassi studied at the National Theatre, Melbourne Drama School, graduating in 1994, and another five years at Drama with a Difference where she later became a full time teacher for the school.
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Kestie Morassi first appeared on the television series Neighbours in 1996.
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Kestie Morassi has appeared in Darkness Falls, Travelling Light, Strange Bedfellows, Thunderstruck, The Illustrated Family Doctor, and Josh Jarman before getting her international break in the Australian box-office success Wolf Creek, which screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
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Kestie Morassi played backpacker Kristy Earl, for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute award for Best Supporting Actress 2005.
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Kestie Morassi starred in the Patrick Hughes short film Signs for Schweppes opposite Nick Russell.
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In recent work, Kestie Morassi played whip-cracking brothel manager Natalie in Foxtel's groundbreaking drama Satisfaction and portrays sultry and infatuated criminal defence lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson in the Nine Network TV drama series Underbelly.
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Kestie Morassi joined the cast of Seven Network soap opera Home and Away in 2017 as Maggie Astoni.
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Kestie Morassi departed in July 2020, along with Rohan Nichol who plays her on-screen husband Ben Astoni.
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In 2020 Kestie Morassi returned to the big screen in paranormal horror Surrogate alongside Jane Badler.
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Kestie Morassi plays Natalie Paxton, a nurse and single mother, who falls mysteriously ill and struggles to save her family from being destroyed.