I guess Hollywood producers actually took notice of The Fast and the Furious: Toyko Drift, or at least they noticed Australian cutie Nathalie Kelley, who played Lucas Black’s love interest in the movie. She’s been cast alongside Jesse Metcalfe in Loaded (2007), where she plays a supporting role to a character whose life takes a downward spiral into a world of drugs, sex and violence.

Not too shabby for a girl who used to volunteer her time with an indigenous Australian youth in the inner-city suburb of Redfern before moving to Los Angeles and getting discovered.

“I’d wanted to be an actor since I was 12 years old – I’d done programs, I’d always done it in school – it’s just something I always wanted to do, and I knew I had to go out there and get noticed. It wouldn’t come to me”, the actress, who attended the same school as Nicole Kidman, explains. “I didn’t have stars in mind eyes though, I had a head on my shoulders, so I think I went around it the right way.”