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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's great. Australia is a small pond so fish size is indexed lol. But she was very high profile there.[/quote]

The small pond seems to produce some pretty big fish …

[b]How an Australian drama school helped shape talent flooding Hollywood[/b]

They may have perfected American accents, but some of the biggest names in Hollywood are Australian.

Many of the Australian actors, directors, writers and crew now working in Hollywood started learning their craft at NIDA, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts.

John Clark, NIDA's director for 35 years, set a goal from the start: unlocking a distinct, Australian mode of acting that combined the theater of London with Hollywood gloss, but still allowed Australia's national characteristics to shine through.

They are playing characters with such conviction and with such truth," Clark, now 92, said. "Without what Australians would call decoration."

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/australia-acting-talent-comes-to-hollywood-60-minutes/

[b]A surprising number of Hollywood stars are Australian: how the country pumps out acting talent[/b]
 60-minutes
November 17, 2024

For the record: it's iron ore. But it's easy to make the case that Australia's leading export is… acting talent. How has an island of only 27 million people minted Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett, Mel Gibson, Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth… we can keep going here… Sarah Snook, Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts… to say nothing of so many Oscar-winning directors, designers and crew?

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Wasn't talking about actors etc. Was talking about celebrity in Australia. How many Minogues can you name?
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I’m not following your logic - a bunch of big Aussie names are listed above - like most of the well known celebrities from down under cited above, Kylie has not lived on Oz for years - she left soon after she made it big on Neighbors (left for London in 1990 but returned in 2022). Maybe you mean something else though?

To me, the proportion of Australian celebrities who have succeeded in US and UK is similar to Olympic medals - much more than you would expect for the size of the population. Not sure why but many of them appear to have graduated from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Apart from Kylie Minogue:
Hugh Jackman
Nicole Kidman
Chris Hemsworth
Cate Blanchett
Russel Crowe
Guy Pierce
Heath Ledger 
Toni Collette
Margo Robbie
Liam Hemsworth
Rachel Griffiths
Olivia Newton John 
Eric Bana
Mel Gibson
Geoffrey Rush 
Sam Worthington
Isla Fisher
Naomi Watts
Jacki Weaver
Hugh Weaving 
Portia de Rossi
Peter Finch
Errol Flynn
Judy Davis

But you are right that Oz is a relatively small pond - Oz population (27 million)is less than a tenth of US (335 million)

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