Emily Browning(I)
- Actress
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Australian actress Emily Browning was born in 1988 in Melbourne,
Australia, to Shelley and Andrew Browning. She has two younger
brothers. Her start in acting came after a classmate's father, involved
in the acting business, noticed her "acting all ditsy" in a school
play. Emily found an agent and was soon filming on location for the
Hallmark TV-movie,
The Echo of Thunder (1998).
She received more roles from there, including parts in
The Man Who Sued God (2001),
opposite Billy Connolly, and
Ned Kelly (2003), opposite
Heath Ledger and
Orlando Bloom. In that film, she had to
hug Heath Ledger, and she said that all of
her friends, who went to see the film, at the same time sent her a
barrage of text messages about how lucky she was! Emily says she tries
to avoid "cheesy" movies, and her big break came when she was on a
press tour in LA for
Ghost Ship (2002), that was filmed in
Australia and released in America. In the same year, she won an
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Young Actress, and was
nominated for the same award, the next year. Emily received some
scripts when she was in LA and sent in a video audition for
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
She received a call and was asked to come to LA for a proper audition,
which won her the part. She spent months in LA filming, for the second
time acting opposite
Billy Connolly. Emily said she
enjoyed the experience of making a big budget film in America, and says
that although she's not sure what is coming next, she's hoping to do
some more Australian work.