Teresa Palmer has been a star for decades, but her journey to fame hasn’t been smooth sailing.
The Aussie-born actress started appearing in films and television shows in 2003, rising to fame in the early 2010s.
“Search for a Movie Star” saw Palmer winning the local casting audition and earning her first job as a Strawberry Shortcake doll in shopping centres in Adelaide.
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Palmer, now 38, landed her first notable role in 2005. She starred in Wolf Creek as an extra before she filmed 2:37.
After completing her first two films, the actress gained her first accolade nomination, being in the running for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2006 AFI Awards for 2:37.
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Palmer told Vogue why she strived for an entertainment career, revealing her “colourful” upbringing was something she wanted to gain distance from.
“I think my dream was born out of escapism, because I grew up in a really loving environment, but my mum had some mental health challenges and I just channelled a lot of my emotions through acting and could get closer to myself through performing, and so that’s what I started doing in my teens,” she said.
After a slew of films, Palmer moved to Hollywood, which took her a while to adjust to.
“It can be very isolating and lonely, and I had numerous friends who were struggling with it and were in dark places in their lives. I realised their thinking had shifted from thinking about the positive things in their life to focusing on the negatives,” she told Vogue.
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Three movies later, Palmer gained a career-defining opportunity to play Violet Nottingham in Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler.
In 2009, the actress formed Avakea Productions, with fellow Aussies Tahyna Tozzie and Nathalie Kelley.
Now building a reputation as the go-to-blockbuster actress, she starred in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice opposite Nicolas Cage.
Wish You Were Here saw Palmer playing the role of Steph McKinner and earning a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Films Critics Circle of Australia.
In 2012, Palmer began dating actor and Director Mark Webber, and their relationship started through Twitter. By August 2013, the pair was engaged, and they married in Mexico later that year.
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Palmer also launched the health and wellness website Zen Life with her friend, Aussie actor Phoebe Tokin.
The actress went on to star in Warm Bodies, Love and Honor, Cut Bank and The Ever After, which she wrote and produced.
In 2016, she was cast in the American horror film Lights Out, where she played one of the main characters.
Over the next few years, she appeared in Berlin Syndrome, 2:22, Ride Like a Girl and The Twin.
In 2018, Palmer landed her first recurring role as the main character Diana Bishop in A Discovery of Witches, which she played until 2022.
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Palmer shares four children with husband Webber – Bodhi Rain, nine; Forest Sage, six; Poet Lake, four; and Prairie Moon, two; and is also stepmother to Mark’s son from his previous marriage, Isaac Love.
The family now lives between Australia and America, leading a healthy and wholesome lifestyle.
In 2022, she told The Sydney Morning Herald that it was important for her kids to still feel connected to both countries.
“It really just works for us because both places are like polar-opposite experiences,” Palmer explained. “For our children to have such a different perspective, depending on what country they’re living in, we think that’s really well-rounding for them.
“They’ve got their American friends and American culture, and then we go to Australia and my home town in the Adelaide Hills is beautiful and sleepy. So it’s a very slow, wild kind of lifestyle and it’s just a beautiful contrast to what we experience here in LA.”
Most recently, the actress starred in The Fall Guy as the character Iggy Starr and in The Clearing in 2023.
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