Teresa Mary Palmer was born on 26 February 1986 and is an Australian actress.
69 Facts About Teresa Palmer
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Teresa Palmer began her career with roles in Bedtime Stories, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Take Me Home Tonight, and I Am Number Four.
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Teresa Palmer received further recognition for starring in the films Warm Bodies, Lights Out, Hacksaw Ridge, and Berlin Syndrome.
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Teresa Palmer starred in, co-wrote, and co-produced the drama film The Ever After, with her husband Mark Webber.
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From 2018 to 2022, Palmer starred as Diana Bishop in the supernatural drama series A Discovery of Witches.
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Teresa Palmer was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, the only child of Kevin Teresa Palmer, an investor, and Paula Sanders, a former nurse and missionary.
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Teresa Palmer's parents separated when she was three, and divorced in 1992 when she was six.
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Teresa Palmer has a stepmother, Kaaren Palmer, as well as two half-sisters and two stepbrothers, who lived with her father.
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Teresa Palmer stated to Interview that she "came from rather humble beginnings"; she lived in public housing with her mother, while regularly visiting her father at his farm near Mylor in the Adelaide Hills.
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Teresa Palmer was a student at Mercedes College, a private Catholic day school, and won a local-casting audition, "Search for a Movie Star", in 2003.
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Teresa Palmer's first acting job was dressing up as a Strawberry Shortcake doll and as an elf assistant to mall Santa Clauses on weekends for promotions in shopping centres near Adelaide.
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Teresa Palmer went to acting classes for a couple of years and appeared in several television commercials.
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Teresa Palmer was a fast-food attendant at Hungry Jack's in Rundle Mall in 2005, before working at clothing retailers Supre, Mambo Australia and Cotton On.
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Teresa Palmer was accepted into a university to study teaching and was taking a course on journalism, but had always dreamt of acting.
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Teresa Palmer got a call from an agent about appearing in a student film, 2:37.
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Teresa Palmer dropped out of the university to work on the film.
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Teresa Palmer had been an extra on Deck Dogz, and other films shot in Adelaide.
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Teresa Palmer was nominated for the 2006 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Actress for her performance.
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Teresa Palmer then signed with a talent agent in Sydney.
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Teresa Palmer starred in the psychological thriller Restraint, with English actor Stephen Moyer and Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel.
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Teresa Palmer was named an Australian "star of tomorrow" by Screen International that year.
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Teresa Palmer then starred in December Boys, a coming-of-age film set in the 1960s, based on a novel by Michael Noonan.
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Teresa Palmer played Lucy, who has a romance with Daniel Radcliffe's character in a remote beach town.
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The film received a standing ovation, a turning point for Teresa Palmer, giving her confidence in acting as a career.
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Teresa Palmer was cast to star with Tom Sturridge in her first American feature, Jumper, a science fiction film directed by Doug Liman.
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Teresa Palmer's part was later recast when the lead characters were rewritten for older actors; her role went to Rachel Bilson.
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Teresa Palmer was devastated from losing the role and returned to Adelaide for a few months.
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Teresa Palmer made her Hollywood feature film debut in The Grudge 2 in 2006, a horror sequel starring Amber Tamblyn and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
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In early 2007, Teresa Palmer was cast as Tori Frederking in the comedy Take Me Home Tonight, starring Anna Faris, Dan Fogler and Topher Grace.
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Teresa Palmer starred in the film clip for the 2007 single "Breaking Up", by the band Eskimo Joe, shot in Newcastle.
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Teresa Palmer relocated from Semaphore Beach in Adelaide to Los Angeles in May 2007 to further her career, and began auditioning for films.
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Teresa Palmer stated that Los Angeles was "a big adjustment" and "very different" from her home in Australia.
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Teresa Palmer went through a period of loneliness and depression, and considered going back home until she made friends there.
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Teresa Palmer was the face of Sydney jeweller Jan Logan's "modern darling" collection in 2008.
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Teresa Palmer was picked that year by Adam Sandler from an audition tape to play his love interest in the Walt Disney Pictures children's film, Bedtime Stories.
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Teresa Palmer played an heiress, Violet Nottingham, starring alongside Guy Pearce and Courteney Cox.
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Teresa Palmer won the romantic lead in Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Jon Turteltaub.
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Teresa Palmer stayed in Manhattan's West Village while filming for six months.
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Teresa Palmer played Becky Barnes, a college student who is pursued by Dave Stutler, a physics student and apprentice to the wizard Balthazar.
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In 2009, Teresa Palmer formed the film production company Avakea Productions, with Australian actresses Tahyna Tozzi and Nathalie Kelley.
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Teresa Palmer was a guest judge on MTV Australia, for the Sydney filmmaking talent contest, Optus one80project.
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Teresa Palmer filmed an ad campaign that year for the Australian jean store, Just Jeans, and became the face and spokesperson for the Jurlique cosmetics company.
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In 2011, Teresa Palmer starred in the sci-fi adventure film, I Am Number Four, alongside Alex Pettyfer and Dianna Agron.
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Teresa Palmer played Number Six, one of nine aliens hiding out on Earth because her home planet was destroyed.
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Teresa Palmer's character was skilled in martial arts, rode a Ducati motorcycle, and could "phase" her way through solid objects.
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Teresa Palmer went through stunt training for the role, learning to perform flips, sword fight, and do wirework.
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Teresa Palmer signed on to do three movies, if the film became a franchise.
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Teresa Palmer was going to star in Fury Road, a sequel to the Mad Max series by Australian filmmaker George Miller, but didn't join the cast due to scheduling conflicts.
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Teresa Palmer starred in the short film Bear, directed by Nash Edgerton, which competed at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Teresa Palmer appeared opposite Joel Edgerton in the independent Australian drama-thriller, Wish You Were Here, directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith.
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Teresa Palmer starred in a comedic short, Quirky Girl, for the website Funny or Die, opposite Aaron Paul.
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Teresa Palmer starred in the 2013 zombie film, Warm Bodies, produced by Summit Entertainment, and based on a young adult novel by Isaac Marion.
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Teresa Palmer played Julie, a human who falls in love with a zombie.
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In February 2013, Teresa Palmer was announced as the "global face" of Artistry cosmetics.
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Teresa Palmer then starred in Love and Honor with Liam Hemsworth, an independent romance filmed in mid-2011 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Teresa Palmer had two films that premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Cut Bank and Kill Me Three Times, both of which rceeived negative reviews from critics.
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Teresa Palmer played the love interest to Liam Hemsworth and Billy Bob Thornton's daughter in Cut Bank and an assassin in Kill Me Three Times opposite Simon Pegg, Alice Braga and Luke Hemsworth.
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Teresa Palmer starred with Melissa Leo and Phoebe Tonkin in The Ever After, directed by her husband Mark Webber.
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Teresa Palmer had a supporting role in the 2015 remake of Point Break.
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In October 2015, it was learned that Teresa Palmer would participate in a short film called Too Legit with Zoe Kravitz, Clark Gregg, Nate Corddry and Lauren Weedman.
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Also that year, she portrayed Rebecca in the horror film Lights Out, and co-starred in the war drama Hacksaw Ridge, playing the love interest of Andrew Garfield's character; both films received positive reviews, with Teresa Palmer's performances being praised.
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Teresa Palmer co-starred in the film Message from the King, alongside Chadwick Boseman, Luke Evans and Alfred Molina.
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In 2017, Teresa Palmer starred in the psychological thriller Berlin Syndrome, alongside Max Riemelt.
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Teresa Palmer starred alongside Michiel Huisman and Sam Reid in the science fiction thriller 2:22.
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In 2018, Teresa Palmer began a starring role as Diana Bishop in the British supernatural drama series A Discovery of Witches.
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In 2019, Teresa Palmer starred in the biographical sports film Ride Like a Girl, portraying Michelle Payne.
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Teresa Palmer began dating actor and director Mark Webber in late 2012 after contacting him via Twitter.
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Teresa Palmer is a stepmother to Webber's son from his previous relationship with actress Frankie Shaw.
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Teresa Palmer co-founded a sister site to Your Zen Life called Your Zen Mama, with her friend, actress Sarah Wright.