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Melanie Zanetti
Australian actress (b. 1985) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Melanie Zanetti (born 20 March 1985) is an Australian actress. She is best known as the voice of Chilli Heeler in the critically acclaimed animated television program Bluey (2018–present).[1][2] She has also portrayed Charlotte Ingram in the horror film Raven's Hollow (2022),[2] and Julia Mitchell in the erotic romance film series Gabriel's Inferno (2020–2023).[3]
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Early life
Zanetti was born in 1985[4] in Brisbane, Queensland,[1] and grew up with five siblings.[5]
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She graduated from the University of Southern Queensland in 2007 with a Bachelor of Theatre Arts.[6] After graduation, she started working as a stage actress.[6] She appeared on stage for the Queensland Theatre Company in several plays, including as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (2011), as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (2012), as Catherine Earnshaw/Cathy Linton in a stage adaptation of Wuthering Heights (2014), as Laura/Eliza Wishart in Kate Mulvany's adaptation of the novel Jasper Jones (2018), and as Lea in the premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith's L'Appartement (2019).[7] Her portrayal of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and earned her a Matilda Award 2011.[8]
She subsequently transitioned voice-over, film, and television,[6] relocating to Los Angeles, where she has been cast in various roles.[2]
Since 2018, Zanetti has been the voice of Chilli Heeler, the mother of the titular character and her sister, Bingo, in the popular Australian television series for preschool children Bluey,[9] which has received Peabody[10] and Emmy awards.[11] She was given the role three months after submitting her voice-over.[12] She will reprise her role in the upcoming feature-length film, set to release in 2027.[13] Cast members of the show recorded their voices separately. Zanetti did so remotely as well, while working on her other projects in different countries.[2] On November 11, 2022, Zanetti and co-star Dave McCormack appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote Bluey. They told Fallon that they had only met two days prior.[14]
In 2019, Zanetti was cast as the artless university student Julia Mitchell by producer Tosca Musk for the Gabriel's Inferno franchise on Passionflix, an adaptation of a series of best-selling erotic romance novels by Sylvain Reynard.[3] In 2022, she portrayed Charlotte Ingram in the Edgar Allan Poe biographic horror film Raven's Hollow.[2]
In 2024, Zanetti was chosen to be the voice of the Brisbane Metro.[15]
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