Virginia Hey Australian actress and model. Date of Birth: 19.06.1952 Country: Australia

1. Australian Actress and Model
2. Early Life and Education
3. Modeling and Acting Career
4. "Farscape" and Later Career
5. Personal Life

Australian Actress and Model

Virginia Hey is an Australian actress and model. She gained recognition for her role as a warrior woman in the Australian film "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" (1981) and as one of Bond's girls in "The Living Daylights" (1987). She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in the Australian-American science fiction television series "Farscape."

Early Life and Education

Virginia Hey was born on June 19, 1952, in Sydney, Australia. She spent her childhood in Sydney and London. In Sydney, she attended Brigidine Catholic School. At the age of 10, in 1962, she moved to England with her family and enrolled in Rosary Priory School in London. She returned to Australia in 1965 and continued her education at Loreto Convent, a Catholic school and convent. In 1971, she obtained a diploma in Fine Arts from Kogarah Fine Arts College in Sydney. Her mother, Coral Hey, also studied alongside her and completed her education at the age of 60.

Modeling and Acting Career

From 1971 to 2003, Virginia Hey actively worked as a model and actress in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her career began at the age of 19 when she was discovered at a casting on a bus stop in Sydney. Her photos appeared on magazine covers, and she appeared in over 50 commercials. One of her most famous commercials was for Oil of Olai cream, where she portrayed a teacher mistaken for a classmate by one of her students. This commercial aired on American television throughout the 1980s. In 1981, she made her film debut in the cult Australian film "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" alongside Mel Gibson, where she played a prominent role.

During the 1980s and 1990s, she appeared in several Australian soap operas such as "Prisoner," "Neighbours," "E-Street," and "Pacific Drive," as well as in minor roles in American television series like "Mission: Impossible," "Flipper," and "Dolphin Cove." Her filmography includes the Bond film "The Living Daylights" with Timothy Dalton, the Australian film "Signal One" with Christopher Atkins, and the British film "Shipwrecked" with Oliver Reed and Alan Arkin. From 1996 to 1998, in addition to her film work, Virginia Hey worked as a stylist at the Mari Vendrame agency and as a fashion editor for Bride To Be and For Me magazines.

"Farscape" and Later Career

In 1998, Hey received an invitation to play one of the main roles in the science fiction television series "Farscape," which was filmed in her hometown of Sydney. For her role as Zhaan, an alien plant creature, Virginia Hey was nominated for the American Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Award in 2000 and won the Australian television Logie Award for Best Actress in 2002. However, in 2001, health problems caused by the elaborate makeup forced her to leave the series temporarily, although she later returned as a guest actress. In 2001, Virginia decided to move to Los Angeles, where she started her own company, White Flower Lei, producing candles and accessories, and began teaching meditation. After obtaining American citizenship in 2003, she settled in Fort Myers, Florida.

Personal Life

Virginia Hey has three brothers, Arron, Peter, and Graham, and a sister named Lorraine. She got married at the age of 21 in the United Kingdom, but the marriage lasted only six months. In the 1980s, she was engaged to INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and dated guitarist John Taylor from Duran Duran, with whom she co-starred in the British television series "The Power Game."