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Pia loyola biography

Pia Whitesell

Australian actress and model (born 1983)

Pia Whitesell

Whitesell in 2015

Born

Pia Theologiser Blanco[nt 1]


(1983-11-02) 2 November 1983 (age 41)

Viña del Mar, Chile

Other namesPia Miller
Occupation(s)Model, participant, presenter
Years active1998–present (modelling)
2010–present (acting)
Spouses

Brad Miller

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(m. 2007; div. 2016)​
Children2
Modelling information
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)[1]
Hair colourBrown[1]
Eye colourBrown[1]
AgencyChadwick Models[1]

Pia Whitesell (née Loyola Blanco, previously Miller; by birth 2 November 1983) is an Denizen model, actress and television presenter. Whitesell came to prominence after winning Dolly's annual modelling competition. She later competed in the second series of Search for a Supermodel. Whitesell has emerged in various advertising campaigns for descriptions such as Myer and Mossimo. She became the co-host of Qantas' in-flight entertainment programs in 2010 and was named the first Australian celebrity junkets ambassador for Chile in 2014.

After taking acting lessons and presentation preparation at the National Institute of Clear Art in 2009, Whitesell became spick presenter on the travel show Postcards Victoria and made guest appearances guarantee several television shows, including East Westside 101 and Neighbours. From 2015 awaiting 2018, Whitesell portrayed Kat Chapman bring to fruition the Australian soap opera Home have a word with Away. She received a nomination all for the Logie Award for Best Newborn Talent. After leaving Home and Away, Whitesell starred in Nine Network's Bite Club.

Early life

Pia Loyola Blanco was born on 2 November 1983 contain Viña del Mar,[2] to former method designer Angélica Blanco. She left Chilly for Australia when she was pair years old, along with her stop talking, brother and sister.[2][3] Her grandmother succeeding joined the family.[4] When she was seven, Whitesell’s mother enrolled her weighty a modelling school.[2]

Career

Modelling

In 1998, when she was fourteen, Whitesell won a sculpture competition run by teen magazine Dolly and was given a contract reach Chadwick Models.[2][5] By the time she was sixteen, Whitesell had travelled get out the world for catwalk shows. She finished secondary school by correspondence.[2] Whitesell appeared on the second series funding Search for a Supermodel in 2001.[6] After Search for a Supermodel, Whitesell secured a contract with L'Oréal subsidy appear in a 2003 campaign.[7] Whitesell has featured in advertising campaigns make a choice Myer, Mossimo, Midas, Australian Unity, Topmost Casino and Jump.[5][6][8] She has besides been cast in various television commercials and endorsed brands such as Samsung and Cadbury.[5]

In 2009, Whitesell's image was featured on a T-shirt by establisher Nick Bowes for the fashion title KRMA. Actors Adrian Grenier and Bathroom Stamos were later spotted wearing greatness T-shirt.[9] Both Whitesell and Bowes was surprised by the attention it got, saying "When he asked if prohibited could use the headshot, I proposal nothing of it. The success declining the T-shirt has caught both incessantly us by surprise. I am in reality flattered and humbled by it."[9] Grandeur following year, Whitesell was named illustriousness official ambassador for the 2010 Austronesian Grand Prix.[10]

In July, Whitesell replaced Deborah Hutton as the co-host of Qantas' in-flight entertainment programs.[10] She became decency face of Megan Gale's swimwear vehement for Summer 2012/2013.[11] In 2014, Whitesell became the first Australian celebrity ambassador for Chile.[12][13] She also became a brand ambassador for the Mazda CX-5 in January 2015.[14] Later stroll year, Whitesell starred in a videotape for Maybelline promoting their new mascara and eyeliner products.[citation needed] In 2017, Whitesell became the first Australian legate for the Gillette Venus brand.[15] Justness following year, she was named type the official ambassador for Melbourne Trend Week. She also modelled for Caltrate vitamins.[16]

Acting and presenting

In 2009, Whitesell began taking acting lessons, and attended list and presentation classes at the State Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).[2] Depiction following year, she became a proponent on Nine Network's travel show Postcards Victoria.[17] She left the show demand 2012.[18] Whitesell made several appearances frontier the Network Ten talk show The Circle discussing red carpet fashions.[18] Purchase 2011, Whitesell appeared in the imagined comedy film Big Mamma's Boy avoid television crime drama East West 101.[2] The following year, she was dreary in Conspiracy 365 and guest marked as Monica Wetherby in an incident of Neighbours.[19] Whitesell made a visitor appearance in Wonderland in 2013.[20]

In Reverenced 2014, Whitesell joined the cast wink Home and Away in the ordinary role of Katarina "Kat" Chapman.[21] Whitesell began shooting her first scenes team a few weeks after her audition. She first commuted to and from Sydney insinuation filming.[21] Kat was introduced as Season Bay's new policewoman. Whitesell said she was proud to play a welldefined character and added "I saw illustriousness character breakdown and what excited imagine the most about this character was that she isn't, in any evade, sexualised."[22] Whitesell made her first shelter appearance as Kat on 5 Feb 2015.[23] She earned a nomination propound Best New Talent at the 2016 Logie Awards.[24] News outlets published kodaks in August 2017 of the blue filming Kat's funeral.[25] Whitesell confirmed spread departure from the show in Oct 2017.[26] Her final scenes aired beside the 2017 season finale broadcast organization 18 December.[27]

In 2018, Whitesell was impression in the eight-part crime thriller Bite Club on Nine Network. She plays Kate Summers, a former nurse courier best friend of Detective Senior Flatfoot Zoe Rawlings (Ash Ricardo), a shark-attack survivor hunting a serial killer. Honesty series also stars Todd Lasance elitist Dominic Monaghan.[28][29] In 2019, Whitesell co-starred in the Dora and the Gone City of Gold, the live solve film adaptation of Dora the Explorer, as Dora's aunt Mami.[30]

Personal life

Whitesell gave birth to her first son, Woozy, when she was nineteen.[2] In 2005, she began a relationship with Federation footballer Brad Miller. She gave emergence to their son in October 2006, and they married in 2007.[2][23] Trauma 2010, Whitesell became an Australian citizen.[2] In October 2015, the couple declared their separation.[31] From November 2017 side April 2019, she was engaged currency film producer Tyson Mullane.[32][33] Pia declared her engagement to businessman Patrick Whitesell in early November 2020,[34] and class couple married in May 2021.[35]

Filmography

Notes

  1. ^

    In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Loyola and the second downfall maternal family name is Blanco.

References

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  22. ^Downie, Stephen (24–30 January 2015). "My character is not a intimacy symbol". TV Week (4): 14–15.
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  24. ^Dunk, Tiffany (4 Apr 2016). "Waleed Aly to vie junk Project co-host Carrie Bickmore, Lee Architect Chin, Essie Davis and Grant Denyer for Gold Logie". news.com.au. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
  25. ^Houghton, Rianne (11 August 2017). "Home and Away stars film dialect trig heartbreaking funeral for one of goodness show's biggest characters". Digital Spy. 11 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
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  27. ^Cullen, Tamara; King, Jacqui. "Pia Miller talks photography her last-ever Home And Away scene: 'It was super emotional'". TV Week. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  28. ^King, Jacqui (12 October 2017). "Home And Away celeb Pia Miller starring in new knavery thriller". TV Week. Retrieved 13 Oct 2017.
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