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Here’s everything you need to know about Bella Heathcote.
She began acting after her mother died
Born in May 1987 in Melbourne, Isabella Heathcote started taking performance classes when she was 12 at her school, Korowa Anglican Girls’ School. Her mother had died and her father, a lawyer, thought they would keep her distracted.
Heathcote fell in love with singing, dancing and drama, but she hesitated at first at the idea of pursuing acting as a career. It was a nudge from her father that convinced her to study drama at university.
“By the time I got through my first year, I realised I could only pursue acting because everything else just made me miserable,” the actress told the Herald Sun in a 2016 interview.