Attended college in Melbourne, Australia. With friends from college, launched an early-80s comedy show on Australian TV called _"The D Generation" .
Wrote and performed in the 1985 Melbourne University Revue "Too Cool for Sandals", with Michael Veitch and Tom Gleisner amongst others.
Attended Siena College (A Secondary School for Girls) in Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Turned down a film role with Richard Gere to star in the second series of "Kath & Kim" .
Has been named an Australian ambassador for Jenny Craig.
Her father was Polish. Her mother was born in Scotland, and was of Irish and Scottish ancestry.
Paternal cousin of Polish actress, Magdalena Zawadzka.
If you had met my father you would never, not for an instant, have thought he was an assassin. .
