Travel, meeting people, acting, film, bodysurfing, surfing, hiking, yoga, family, friends, food, dining al fresco, wine (then dancing =), Lindt 70% and Intense Mint dark chocolate (does that make me a girl?), spirituality, transformation and personal growth, girls, kissing, snuggling, shagging, napping =).Have been to been to over 40 countries and especially love Italy, Thailand, Brasil, Spain, France (and Australia!). Am into all kinds of "international stuff" - customs, politics, food, tradition.... and local knowledge when you visit a place. Really want to go to Croatia, Russia, Argentina, and come to think of it, many, many other places.My favorite cities are New York, Sydney, Prague, Cape Town, Rome, Paris and Barcelona, and more cute little towns and villages than I can name. (I need help with LA!)Love the ocean, the beach, the waves, the mountains (so I care about the environment) and used to windsurf and ski competitively, and started to snowboard (back when I had money i.e. pre-acting).Enough about me!
I'd like to meet:
If I don't know you (yet)... please at least pop me a message before adding me! We all do it sometimes but if you're regularly a FLAKE or consistently late (both incredibly disrepectful) or drive a Hummer or huge truck that you don't need for work (i.e. you're an environmental terrorist) I simply have no interest in befriending you (unless you have some incredibly redeeming features =).However... I really would like to meet...PROFESSIONALLY - Talented Casting Directors, Agents, Managers, Producers, Directors, Photographers & Actors (2 run lines/rehearse/audition prep with =).PERSONALLY - genuine, passionate, respectful, honest and funny people. And given that I don't have many great friends in LA yet... it would be cool if you live or visit there too! (Oh and if you're single, gorgeous and female - all the better =)Right now 70% (ok, ok so now it's only 60%) of my myspace friends are actually people I know from the real world (as opposed to cyberspace). Am here to stay in contact with those folk and to meet a few people in the categories mentioned.
Music:
Love artists in all genre's (except probably country & western, gangster rap & heavy metal).... Especially love ColdPlay, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, Pearl Jam, Police, Jamiroquai, Sting, Alanis Morrisette, David Gray, Oasis, Jeff Buckley, Massive Attack, Sigur Ros, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, FunkStarDeluxe, and a lot of dance and house and lounge DJs, compiliations and artists most of whom I can't identify =) And check out my supertalented singer-songwriter friends who's music is on myspace - Jacqui MacKenzie, James Carrington, Ruut and the Kin!
Movies:
.. - Get Your Own
Dead Poet's Society, American Beauty, Gallipoli, Whale Rider, Notes on a Scandal, Braveheart, Fight Club, The Life of Brian, The Holy Grail, Napolean Dynamite, The Piano, The Matrix, all Sean Connery Bond Films, Zoolander, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Pulp Fiction, Being John Malkovich, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Finding Nemo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Silence of the Lambs, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Good Will Hunting, Traffic, Dirty Harry, The Godfather, City of God, What the Bleep Do We Know; The Secret =)
Television:
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Books:
Would love to still be able to call myself a "reader" (because I admire them =), but that just wouldn't be true these days. I grew up adoring fantasy (think I've read nearly every word written by Tolkien). Grew an aversion to reading in law school (and throughout my corporate career where I had to read boring business and industry reports etc). Since becoming an actor I've been reading tons of plays and screenplays (not to mention scenes and sides). Now I generally only read novels on vacation (so I doubly love it!); and spiritual and political books more regularly - primarily a few pages at night to put myself to sleep =). So on my bedside bookshelf right now (and slowly getting read): The Power of Now, The Clash of Fundamentalisms, Sophie's World, The Artist's Way, Dreams from My Father.
Heroes:
Mum, Dad (all good parents for that matter); my sister Sally (who's a smart, over-educated, hard-working mother in Portugal), my brother David (a PhD in fine art making his way in Thailand); the Dalai Lama; Gandhi; Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, & Judy Dench (the world's best actresses); George Clooney for charm; Jacqui McKenzie for thoughtfulness; Martin Stoller for inspiringing the unconventional; Dave Vockell, Anne Sullivan, Amanda White, Jody Heisler (and all other unselfish, inspiring people); people who work for Greenpeace and other environmental groups; and all passionate, caring teachers of children.
