Rachael Carpani's happy to be bridesmaid for once
Actress Rachael Carpani at Channel 7 Pyrmont. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source: The Sunday Telegraph
Actress Rachael Carpani at Channel 7 Pyrmont. Picture: Ella Pellegrini Source: The Sunday Telegraph
SHE plays the leading role in a US drama series, but this time TV star Rachael Carpani happily played the bridesmaid - at her sister Georgia's wedding.
The former McLeods Daughter favourite jetted in from the US for her younger sibling's nuptials this weekend.
But Carpani says she would have loved to have combined the wedding with next weekend's NRL final.
"I fly out Monday so I miss the final - so let's not talk about that. It's weird because I wasn't that into the footy until I moved to America and realised it was so hard to find [on TV]."
"And obviously coming back for the wedding is a great reason to return, it's something I would never miss, or I don't think it would have been worth living if I missed it."
Her fleeting visit comes at the end of completing her first season filming on US crime series Against The Wall, also starring Emmy Award winner Kathy Baker.
"A lot of people have asked me if I felt extra pressure, being the lead. I think I did after it was done, I didn't allow myself to think about it at the time otherwise I may not have shown up
for work because it was such a big cast, Treat Williams and Kathy Baker playing my parents, I really thought I better not F this up."
Having recently split from long-term boyfriend Matt Passmore - whom she met on the set of McLeods and who has also landed a Stateside lead in The Glades - the 31 year-old simply labelled her
newfound single life as "very happy''.
She hopes to return to work in Australia for the right project.
"I like to keep Sydney as my base, which is only one month a year at this point but I like to think of it as my home and of course I'd love to film back here one day.''
By SM - 20.09.2010, 07:24 PM
Australian actress Rachael Carpani has landed the central role in another cable pilot with a female lead, Lifetime's Against the Wall.
Written by Annie Brunner and to be directed by Dean Parisot, Against the Wall is a family drama set in Chicago following policewoman Abby Kowalski (Carpani), who causes a rift with her three cop
brothers when she decides to join the department’s Internal Affairs division. Universal Cable Prods. is producing. In the U.S., Carpani is probably best known for her co-starring role on the
short-lived CBS drama Cane.
Source: slumz.boxden.com
Callie Thorne, Rachael Carpani join USA, Lifetime pilots
http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/usa-and-lifetime-pilots-find-their-leads/
USA And Lifetime Pilots Find Their Leads
By NELLIE ANDREEVA
Rescue Me co-star Callie Thorne is staying on the cable series beat as
the lead on the USA Network pilot Necessary Roughness. Meanwhile,
Australian actress Rachael Carpani has landed the central role in
another cable pilot with a female lead, Lifetime's Against the Wall.
Inspired by the true story of a female psychiatrist who takes a gig as
a consultant to the New York Jets that leads to a new career for her,
Necessary Roughness centers on a tough, sexy Long Island divorcee
(Thorne) who, to make ends meet, becomes the therapist for a
professional football team and quickly becomes sought after by other
athletes, musicians, politicians and those living in the spotlight.
Elizabeth Kruger and Craig Shapiro wrote the script and are executive
producing with Kevin Dowling, who will direct, Donna Dannenfesler and
Joe Sabatino. On Rescue Me, Thorne plays Sheila Keefe, is the sexy,
foulmouthed Italian-American widow of Tommy's (Denis Leary)
firefighter cousin Jimmy Keefe who has a stormy relationship with
Tommy. She will co-star on the show's final seventh season, which
wrapped production this summer for a summer 2011 run. Homicide alumna
Thorne, repped by Gersh and Untitled, also had major recurring roles
on ER, The Wire and Prison Break.
Written by Annie Brunner and to be directed by Dean Parisot, Against
the Wall is a family drama set in Chicago following policewoman Abby
Kowalski (Carpani), who causes a rift with her three cop brothers when
she decides to join the department?s Internal Affairs division.
Universal Cable Prods. is producing. In the U.S., Carpani is probably
best known for her co-starring role on the short-lived CBS drama Cane.
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Curtains fall on Hollywood couple Matt Passmore and Rachael Carpani
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July 23, 2011 12:00AM byFiona Byrne
THEY fell for each other among the horses and hay on McLeod's Daughters and then found success on separate TV dramas in the US, but now the romance has ended for Matt Passmore and Rachael
Carpani.
The handsome couple called quits on their relationship earlier this month after almost five years together.
Passmore's Australian agent, RGM, confirmed the split.
"Matt and Rachael have parted ways," a spokeswoman for RGM said.
"They have great respect for each other and remain good friends."
Passmore is building a solid career in the US where he is filming the second season of the crime drama, The Glades.
Carpani had a guest role in the first series.
She is soon to be seen in the police drama, Against the Wall, in which she has the lead role as an internal affairs officer.
The show is expected to premiere in the US at the end of the month.
Source: Herals Sun
