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Kimberley Davies
Australian actress and model (born 1973) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kimberley Davies (born 20 February 1973) is an Australian actress and model, known for playing Annalise Hartman on the Australian television soap opera Neighbours from 1993 until 1996.[1]
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Early life
Davies was born in Ballarat, Victoria, where her father worked as a baker. She moved to Melbourne when she was 13 years old.[2] She was spotted by an agent from Chadwick Models while she was holidaying on the Gold Coast. Davies was offered a modelling contract, which she initially turned down. However, after completing a photoshoot for Mode, she signed with Chadwick and stopped her commerce studies at the University of Melbourne.[2]
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Davies appeared in print and television campaigns for both national and international brands, including Myer, Mitsubishi and Cadbury.[2]
Davies wanted to be an actress and after securing an acting agent, she received an audition for Neighbours.[2] She was cast as hairdresser Annalise Hartman in 1992 when she was 19 years old. She was known to the cast and crew through her relationship with cast member Scott Michaelson (who played Brad Willis). Davies said she chose to do Neighbours because of its popularity around the world and the chance to gain more experience than modelling could offer.[3] Davies became popular in both Australia and the UK during her time in Neighbours. When she appeared on the cover of Inside Sport, it become the magazine's highest selling issue. Her calendar was the second highest seller for 1996.[2] In the UK, she also had her own clothing collection in Kays Catalogues and appeared in the Goldilocks pantomime.[2]
Davies made a number of cameos in the ABC comedy series Club Buggery.[4] Following her departure from Neighbours in 1996, she played the role of "assassin android" Betty in the Twisted Tales episode "Directly from My Heart to You".[5] She also hosted the Nine Network series Just Kidding!, which featured pranks played on an unsuspecting public,[4] and had a small role in the feature film True Love and Chaos.[2] In 1998, Davies was announced as the "new face" of Just Jeans and featured in their "Relax This Summer" advertisement campaign.[6]
Davies later moved to the United States and played the role of Laura Sinclair in the lavish but short-lived night-time soap opera Pacific Palisades. She also made guest appearances on Ally McBeal, Early Edition and Friends, and appeared in the films Psycho Beach Party, The Next Best Thing, The Shrink Is In, Made and South Pacific. In 2005, she returned to Neighbours for the show's twentieth anniversary.[7]
In May 2005, she appeared on an Australian reality television show called Celebrity Circus and in November 2005 she appeared in the fifth series of UK reality television show I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! but left halfway through after she hurt her shoulder, during one of the "Bush Tucker Trials".[8] In 2007, Davies was a contestant on Australia's Dancing with the Stars and in the summer of that year she appeared in a Daz advert in the UK.[9]
Davies voices Australian character Alura McCall in the 2002 videogame James Bond 007: Nightfire.[10] In September 2010, she appeared in an episode of Australian comedy game show Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation.[11] She also guested in the second season of comedy series Lowdown in 2012.[12]
On 20 June 2025, it was announced that Davies would be reprising her role as Annalise in Neighbours twenty years after her last appearance.[13]
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Personal life
Davies has been married to model-turned-orthopaedic surgeon Jason Harvey since 1997. They have three children and live in Melbourne, where Davies owns a decorating business.[14]
Davies studied drama at Monash University and has trained with acting coaches Janet Alhunty, Ivana Chubbuck and Lesly Kahn. She also studied interior design at RMIT University (RMIT).[15]
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