Holly Rachel Vukadinoviæ (born May 11, 1983 to a Croatian father and British mother), who is better known by her stage name of Holly Valance (which was inspired by a bed-sheet), is an actress and singer who was born in New Zealand, but moved to Australia at an early age. Holly is related to the late British comedian Benny Hill—Hill's cousin was her grandfather. She was educated at the Star of the Sea College, a Catholic high school located in Melbourne, Victoria.
Career
Acting & Singing
Valance's big break came when she landed the role of Felicity 'Flick' Scully in Neighbours. Holly's first single was Kiss Kiss (based on Turkish singer Tarkan's hit single Simarik) was released in 2002. The video for Kiss Kiss was notable for the impression that she was dancing naked, with her nudity only concealed by strategically placed lighting. In fact she was dancing wearing flesh-coloured underwear, and the footage of her dancing was then digitally retouched to create the illusion. Her début album Footprints went on sale at the end of that year.
Kiss Kiss debuted at ..1 in both the Australia ARIA charts and UK Singles Charts in (April-May 2002). Then her next single, Down Boy peaked at ..2 in the UK and at ..3 in Australia, while her album Footprints debuted and peaked at ..9 in the UK and at ..16 in Australia. Her third single Naughty Girl peaked at ..3 in Australia and at ..16 in the UK. The first single State of Mind from her next album of the same name then debuted and peaked at ..8 in the UK and peaked at ..14 in Australia, but the album didn't get into the top 50 of both charts.
Although "Somebody Out There," "Ricochets," "Desire" and "Everything I Hate" were all scheduled to be released as singles, with "Please Please Please Me" to be the lead-off single for a third album...following legal problems with her manager/boyfriend, and poor sales from the album "State of Mind," Valance was dropped from her recording company.
In 2002 she won the British GQ Award for "Woman of the Year".
In 2004 Valance returned to acting, this time in the United States, appearing in episodes of the television series CSI: Miami and Entourage and in 2005, she appeared in Prison Break. She will soon also appear in the National Lampoon comedy Pledge This! and DOA: Dead or Alive, an adaptation of the popular video game Dead or Alive. She also currently serves as the promotional face of Australian collect call company 1-800-REVERSE.Leave Holly a comment...
Down Boy
Naughty Girl
