Zoë Ventoura
Australian actress
Zoë Ventoura is an Australian actress. She played Melissa Rafter in Packed to the Rafters from 2008 to 2010. The character's death earned Ventoura a nomination for the Logie Award for Most Popular Actress in 2011. That same year, Ventoura starred alongside actor Daniel MacPherson, whom she later married, in Wild Boys. Other roles include Miki Mavros in the television comedy series Kick and Sonya Hyde in Hyde and Seek. Ventoura joined the recurring cast of Home and Away as Alex Neilson in 2019.
Early and personal life
Ventoura attended Penrhos College in Perth, Western Australia.
In December 2014, Ventoura became engaged to longtime partner and Wild Boys co-star Daniel MacPherson, and they married in Noosa in November 2015. The couple have one child, a son born in December 2019 named Austin Xavier. A year later, Ventoura announced that the pair had separated.
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