Biography :
Abbie Cornish or Abbigale Cornish was born on 7 August 1982 in Lochinvar, New South Wales, Australia as the second of five children. She grew up on a 170-acre farm. Cornish is a vegetarian and enjoys painting, like her mother who is a painter. She attended Catholic school.
Her career began at the age of thirteen, when she began taking jobs as a model after reaching the finals of a Dolly Magazine competition. By the time she was sixteen, Cornish was juggling television acting roles with studying for her Higher School Certificate, with the intention of pursuing a career as a veterinarian.
In 1999, Cornish was awarded the Australian Film Institute Young Actor's Award for her role in the ABC's television show Wildside and was soon offered her first role in a feature film, The Monkey's Mask. In 2001, Abbie landed the role of Reggie McDowell, a character on the Australian TV show "Outriders".
In 2004, Cornish appeared in the award-winning short film Everything Goes with Hugo Weaving. She received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress at the FCCA and IF Awards and Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2005 Miami International Film Festival for her role in 2004's Somersault, the film which raised her to international prominence. Cornish received widespread critical acclaim for her role in 2006's Candy, which she starred in opposite Heath Ledger.
In 2007, she began dating fellow actor Ryan Phillippe. Phillippe and Cornish attended the Calvin Klein 40th Anniversary party on Cockatoo Island in Sydney on 16 December 2008. Phillippe also spent some of the 2008 Christmas break in Australia with Cornish and and her family. Cornish occasionally contributes and performs live with the Australian hip hop outfit Blades. In January 2010, Cornish appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and spoke of her continued involvement with Blades. Her family currently resides in the Hunter Valley. On 21 February 2010, Cornish's publicist announced that Cornish and Phillippe had ended their relationship.
She has also starred in A Good Year, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Kimberly Peirce's latest movie, Stop-Loss. In April 2010, Cornish was cast in the film adaptation of the novel The Dark Fields, directed by Neil Burger and also starring Robert De Niro.
Abbie Cornish will play the role of Wally in the film W.E. about Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII. It will be directed by Madonna. The shooting began July, 5 2010 in England. She narrated her film Sucker Punch on the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International.
And now Abbie Cornish is trying a new character on for size - smouldering cover girl - to promote her sexy new role in girl power action film Sucker Punch. She is strips off in the new issue of Esquire magazine ahead of tomorrow night's Leicester Square premiere in London. Sucker Punch opens in UK cinemas on April 1.
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