This week sees Abbie Cornish return to the big screen in Bright Star, a very popular movie on the festival circuit so far this year.
She teams up with Ben Whishaw for a movie that is based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25.
So to celebrate the release of the movie FemaleFirst introduces you to one of Australia's hottest acting talents Abbie Cornish.
The twenty seven year old kicked off her career in Australia modelling but by the time she was sixteen was also working in television.
Despite having aspirations to be a vet all that was put on the back burner in 1999 when she was awarded the Australian Film Institute Young Actor's Award for her role in Wildside.
The show, which ran between 1997 to 1999, was a police show that was set and shot in Sydney.
Her first movie role came along in 2000 in The Monkey's Mask, which followed a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect.
Over the next couple of years she returned to TV with roles in Water Rats and Outriders. But her major breakthrough can in Everything Goes, a short which she starred in alongside Hugo Weaving.
The movie followed an unlikely relationship between a young couple and a man who is trying to leave his past behind him.
For her performance awards came the young actress' way including an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Next up was Somersault, another Australian movie, but it played at the Miami International Film Festival in 2005. Here she won the Best Breakthrough Performance and was finally on an international stage.
More critical success followed with Candy in 2005, in which she starred alongside Heath Ledger, which was an adaptation ofLuke Davies's novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction.
The movie followed a couple as they battle their addiction to Heroin. The movie, and Cornish's performance, was met with critical acclaim and the film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
After this performance she had a string of more mainstream movies such as Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Stop Loss and A Good Year with Russell Crowe.
After Bright Star the actress also has Last Battle Dreamer and Sucker Punch in the pipeline.
Bright Star is released 6th November.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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