Brooke Satchwell
Australian actress
Brooke Kerith Satchwell (born 1980) is an Australian actress and former model. She is known for playing Anne Wilkinson in the soap opera Neighbours from 1995 until 2000. She won the Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent in 1998. Since leaving Neighbours, Satchwell has starred in Water Rats, White Collar Blue, Tripping Over, Dangerous, Packed to the Rafters, Wonderland, and Mr Inbetween. She has also been a panellist on The Panel, Dirty Laundry Live, and Show Me the Movie!
Early life and education
Brooke Kerith Satchwell was born in 1980. She lived in Teesdale, Victoria, for most of her early life and has one sibling. She attended Toorak College.
Career
Satchwell started acting in 1994, when a casting agent suggested she model in a few television advertisements. She also appeared in the ABC Television musical Harriet.
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