Teresa Palmer

 Actress and model Teresa Palmer has gathered some remarkable film credits. Teresa Palmer was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Kevin Palmer, an investor and Paula Sanders, a former missionary and nurse. She attended the high school of Mercedes College in 2003, where she was a popular student who was well-known for her witty jokes. She was employed in a Cotton On outlet in Rundle Mall until she was discovered and cast on the spot, without auditioning, for her debut feature film and breakout role in 2:37 (2006). Made by first-time writer/director/producer Murali K. Thalluri, the film competed in the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in "Un Certain Regard" and chronicles the lives of six students over the course of day and ends in a devastating suicide.Teresa immediately went to work on back-to-back film projects including December Boys (2007) opposite "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe--a coming-of-age story about four adolescent orphans, based on the book by Michael Noonan and directed by Rod Hardy (Robinson Crusoe (1997), Buffalo Girls (1995), The X-Files (1993) and The Practice (1997)). She also starred as stripper-turned-criminal "Dale" in the British/Australian co-production Restraint (2008), a film noir/psychological thriller that follows the plight of a pair of fugitives on the run from a murder scene. The film was directed by David Denneen. the film also stars the former Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel as well as British actor Stephen Moyer. Teresa was a co-worker in 2006 alongside Takashi Shimizu who is a Japanese director for The Grudge 2 (2006) produced by Sony Pictures.