Abbie Cornish

Abbie Cornish was born on 7 August 1982[1] in Lochinvar, New South Wales, Australia, as the second of five children of Shelley and Barry Cornish.[2] Her sister, Isabelle Cornish, is also an actress. She grew up on a 70-hectare (170-acre) farm before moving to Newcastle, New South Wales.[3] As a teenager, Cornish was fascinated by independent and foreign films.[4]

Cornish at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International

Cornish began modelling at age 13 after reaching the finals of a Dolly Magazine competition.[5] In 1999, Cornish was awarded the Australian Film Institute Young Actor's Award for her role in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television show Wildside and was offered her first role in a feature film, The Monkey's Mask.

In 2004, Cornish appeared in the award-winning short film Everything Goes with Hugo Weaving. She received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress at the FCCA and IF Awards and Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2005 Miami International Film Festival for her role in Somersault. Cornish received critical acclaim for her role in Candy, opposite Heath Ledger.[5] She has also starred in A Good Year, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Kimberly Peirce's Stop-Loss. In April 2010, Cornish was cast in Limitless, the film adaptation of the novel The Dark Fields,[6] directed by Neil Burger and also starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.[7][8]

Cornish narrated Zack Snyder's film Sucker Punch, in which she played one of the protagonists.[9]

Cornish played the role of Wally in Madonna's film W.E., about Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.[4] In 2012, she replaced Emily Blunt in the independent film The Girl, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and starred alongside Woody Harrelson and Colin Farrell in the crime comedy Seven Psychopaths. Cornish co-starred in the 2014 RoboCop reboot, as Clara Murphy, the wife of protagonist Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman).

In 2015, she played Agent Katherine Cowles in Solace, a mystery thriller film directed by Afonso Poyart with central performances by Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.[10][11]

In 2016, she filmed The Girl Who Invented Kissing with Luke Wilson.[12][13]

In 2018, she starred in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan as Cathy Mueller, alongside John Krasinski.[14]

In 2019, she starred in the Australian television miniseries Secret Bridesmaids' Business along with Katie McGrath and Georgina Haig.[15]

Cornish is a rapper, singer and songwriter. She has been rapping under the name MC Dusk since 2000 and was part of Australian hip hop group Blades from the age of 18 to 22. In 2015, Cornish supported American rapper Nas on his Australian tour.[16] The same year, she released two new tracks on SoundCloud: "Evolve" featuring Jane Tyrrell and "Way Back Home", which was produced by Suffa from Hilltop Hoods.[17] The songs have since been deleted, and there is no music on her profile as of October, 2020.

She is committed to cruelty-free eating,[18] and in 2006, became an ambassador for Australian animal rights group Voiceless, the animal-protection institute, and was part of a national advertising campaign in 2012.[19] In 2019, she announced her engagement to mixed martial artist Adel Altamimi.[20]

• Pescan: A Feel Good Cookbook (2019, Abrams Books) ISBN 9781419734670

• Goodwin, C (28 October 2007). "Pout and about". The Sunday Times. London: Times Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 28 October 2007.

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