Kimberley Joseph

Kimberley Joseph was born on August 30, 1973, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Joe and Wendy. Joe, a Canadian businessman, met Wendy, an Australian flight attendant, while she was in Canada. When Kimberley was three years old, the family moved to Australia's Gold Coast, where she attended St Hilda's School for the next nine years. The family travelled extensively in Europe, and Kimberley attended a private school in Montreux, Switzerland, for four years. While there, she learned to speak French and Spanish. When she returned to Australia, she started a degree in arts and commerce at Bond University, though did not complete it. ==Career==

At the age of 19, Joseph dropped out of University after getting the part of Cassie Barsby in the soap opera Paradise Beach. Joseph gained acting experience and friendships with Raelee Hill, Megan Connolly, and Isla Fisher, though the series was cancelled after only 18 months. She described hosting Gladiators as "tough and scary" on account of the live audience. The character, a secretary who dealt drugs to school children, appeared from 1995 to 1996. She left the soap with the possibility of returning to the character later. Alongside her role in Home and Away, she appeared in a play with Geoffrey Hughes. Eager to move away from soap opera acting, Joseph moved to the United States to study acting with the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. Her episodes for season two were filmed over five weeks and were broadcast in 2005. Joseph also filmed minor roles in two Ron Howard films; in Frost/Nixon (2008), she portrayed tennis champion Evonne Goolagong, and she had a minor role in Angels & Demons (2009). Although of a different ethnicity to Goolagong, she was cast in Frost/Nixon because she had the "right look". Both of her scenes were cut from the films before release. In 2011, Joseph appeared in television commercials for HughesNet, the satellite-based Internet Service Provider. In 2013, Joseph appeared in Linkin Park's music video for their single Castle of Glass. Joseph played the bereaved wife of a deceased Navy SEAL. In 2016, Kimberley ‘Hawryluk’ appears on Series 1 Episode 4 of “Restored” as Decorator to Restoration Expert Brett Waterman, who restores an 1895 Victorian farmhouse in Redlands, CA, USA. ==Personal life==

Joseph lives in Los Angeles, where she is based for acting. She returned to the area with Stevenson in July 2008 and has developing a documentary film to attract international attention to the area. The 13-minute film, entitled When the Dust Settles, premiered on 12 November 2009 at the Birch Carroll & Coyle cinema in Southport, Queensland. Joseph and partner Scott Chrisman have a son, born in 2013. ==Filmography==

;As host • Gladiators (1995–1996) • Gladiators: The Ashes 1 (1995–1996) • International Gladiators 2 (1996) ;As director • When the Dust Settles (2009; documentary short) ==References==