Natalie Bassingthwaighte is an Australian recording artist, actress, and television personality.
42 Facts About Natalie Bassingthwaighte
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte later pursued an acting career in 1998 with guest appearances in television shows.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte released her debut solo album 1000 Stars in 2009, which spawned the platinum top-ten hits "Alive" and "Someday Soon".
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That same year, Natalie Bassingthwaighte launched her own children's clothing label, Chi Khi.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte has been married twice; in 1998 she married Graham Wilmott, a chef from Wollongong, for two years.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte was born on 1 September 1975 in Wollongong, New South Wales, to Betty was born on ca.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte grew up in the suburb of Mount Warrigal as the second of four girls with her older sister Melinda was born on ca.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte got her first role in a primary school production at Balarang Primary School of Peter Pan, playing the character Tinker Bell.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte enrolled at Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts and graduated from the Australian College of Entertainment.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte participated in a variety of performances, including 1950s, 1970s, country and Hanna-Barbera shows.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte was chosen from over 6,000 people for the role as Mrs Cohen in the Australian tour of the rock musical, Rent.
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In October 2005, Natalie Bassingthwaighte performed the Australian national anthem at the 2005 NRL Grand Final.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte recorded "O Holy Night" for the album The Spirit of Christmas 2006, a Christmas compilation album for which all proceeds go to The Salvation Army in Australia.
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In June 2008, Natalie Bassingthwaighte left the group to pursue her solo career.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte had signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia in 2006 to embark on a solo career.
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In June 2008, Natalie Bassingthwaighte began working on her debut solo album, 1000 Stars.
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For 1000 Stars, Natalie Bassingthwaighte co-composed seven of its fifteen tracks, including "Alive" and "Someday Soon".
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In January 2011, Natalie Bassingthwaighte returned to theatre, performing at the Sydney Opera House, in Love, Loss and What I Wore, a play "about women, their relationships and memories", where she co-starred with Judi Farr, Mirrah Foulkes, Amanda Muggleton and Magda Szubanski.
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On 28 August 2011, Natalie Bassingthwaighte told The Daily Telegraph that she had recorded several new tracks, with her single "All We Have" expected to be released soon.
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In February 2012, Natalie Bassingthwaighte was announced as a Moomba Monarch alongside Harry Kewell, the Australian socceroo.
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In September 2015, Natalie Bassingthwaighte reunited with her former band Rogue Traders, performing together for the first time in seven years, at a corporate show in Gold Coast.
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In 2003, Natalie Bassingthwaighte appeared in the telemovie Counterstrike, playing the character of Kelly.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte portrayed the character of Jinx De-Luxe, which involved a performance of the Marilyn Monroe song "Every Baby Needs a Da-da-daddy".
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte gained greater popular acclaim on the Australian soap opera Neighbours, playing the role of Izzy Hoyland from 2003 to 2006.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte was nominated for a Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality and a Silver Logie Award for Most Popular Actress in 2006, for her role on the show.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte left Neighbours in 2006 to focus on her music career and filmed her final scenes on 2 June 2006.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte received another nomination for Most Popular Actress at the 2007 Logie Awards.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte appeared in a documentary special celebrating the show's 30th anniversary titled Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which aired in Australia and the United Kingdom in March 2015.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte reprised her role as Izzy Hoyland for a guest appearance on Neighbours in February 2018, and was again back for the final episodes of the series in 2022.
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In 2009, Natalie Bassingthwaighte starred in the Australian horror film Prey alongside Jesse Johnson, Christian Clark and Nicholas Bell, playing the role of Kate, an ambitious young surgeon working in the emergency department of a major city hospital.
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From April to June 2010, Natalie Bassingthwaighte starred in the 13-part television crime mini-series, Underbelly: The Golden Mile, playing the role of Maria Haken, the wife of Trevor Haken, who is a corrupt Kings Cross detective.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte's character was described as "the adulterous and neglected wife" and her husband's "drinking and neglect led [her] to begin an affair with another police officer".
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In 2016, Natalie Bassingthwaighte starred in the two-part miniseries Brock, based on the life of Australian motor racing driver Peter Brock, playing the role of Julie Bamford, Brock's girlfriend before he died.
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In 2008, Natalie Bassingthwaighte made her debut as a television presenter, hosting the Australian version of So You Think You Can Dance.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte hosted the show for its first three seasons and received two nominations at the 2009 Logie Awards for a Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality and a Silver Logie Award for Most Popular Presenter.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte received another nomination for Most Popular Presenter at the 2010 Logie Awards.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte returned for the show's fourth, fifth and sixth seasons.
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In 2015, Natalie Bassingthwaighte replaced Natalia Kills midway through the second season of The X Factor New Zealand after Kills was fired from the show for humiliating a contestant.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte made it to the show's grand finale and placed third in the competition.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte encouraged fellow Australians to support the project to train health workers, village doctors and caregivers and reduce the impact of pneumonia.
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In March 2015, Natalie Bassingthwaighte launched her own children's clothing label, Chi Khi.
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Natalie Bassingthwaighte is often referred to as Nat Bass in the media and by fans.