When Les Chantery was at drama school in Sydney, the young Australian-born Lebanese actor was given a blunt message.
“I was told I would be offered three kinds of roles – drug dealers, terrorists and gang rapists,” he said.
(Australian actress Rachel Taylor & Les Chantery pictured).
Australian actor Heath Ledger’s final performance before he died of an accidental overdose in January 2008 nearly never made it to the big screen, US-born director Terry Gilliam said.
The film maker’s first thought when Ledger died in New York was to ditch The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which was only half finished.
TVI actors studio’s New York full time program graduate, Australian based Shailla Quadra, is an actress, writer, producer, director and everything in between!
The actress/filmmaker who lives in Sydney has been accepted to screen her short film Breathing at the A Night Of Horror International Film Fetsival, March 29 – April 3, 2009.