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Stephanie McIntosh (born 5 July 1985) is an Australian actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Sky Mangel in the Australian soap opera Neighbours and her music career, which began with the release of her debut album Tightrope in September 2006. McIntosh has two older sisters called Katherine and Olivia and is a half sister of Jason Donovan, himself a former Neighbours star. Her mother Sue McIntosh, is a former newsreader for ABC News. Her mother is a senior executive producer of Channel Ten and responsible for gaining her the role. She is currently in a relationship with St Kilda Football player Nick Riewoldt.
She attended Firbank & Melbourne Girls Grammar School where she graduated in 2004. McIntosh appeared in the film The Wilde Girls alongside Olivia Newton John as well as the Australian kids` TV show, The Legacy of the Silver Shadow, both small guest appearances. In 2003, McIntosh became a regular on Australian soap opera Neighbours playing character "Sky Mangel". For her performance in Neighbours, she was nominated for the "Most Popular New Female Talent" award at the 46th Annual TV Week Logie Awards held in 2004, but lost to Isabel Lucas from Home And Away. She left the series when her contract expired in April 2007 to pursue her singing career.
Following the path of many Neighbours stars by diversifying into music, McIntosh signed a five-album deal with Universal Music Australia in 2004. The two years that McIntosh spent making the album was turned into a reality TV show The Steph Show, produced by Tom Nichols and Arnon Woolfson. The show debuted on Network Ten on July 28, 2006, the day before the release of her debut single Mistake, and finished on September 15, 2006, the date the music video for her second single Tightrope was released. Successive albums have failed to appear, and rumours suggest she has been dumped by her label. McIntosh has been dating St Kilda football player Nick Riewoldt, although her recent stay in LA stirred up speculation that McIntosh is romantically liked to actor Adrian Grenier, but she has recently denied these rumors.
On May 25, 2008, an article in the Herald Sun stated that McIntosh has been in LA for quite a while now, meeting with potential agents and managers hoping to make it big over there. She has landed a number of high-profile auditions over there, including a role in the film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, McIntosh failed and the role was given to Isabel Lucas, and she has reportedly been sounded out regarding several high-profile shows in Australia. A follow-up article in the Herald Sun on June 26, 2008 has stated that she got a callback for the lead role for a new CBS series called Harper`s Island, and has landed an audition for the new Beverly Hills 90210 series. More tryouts in the US are scheduled for later on in 2008. She has said she will carry on trying until the end of 2008, saying "You never know when the lucky audition is going to come along. You can have 1000 unlucky auditions but all you need is one lucky one. And it would be devastating to come home just before it comes along." McIntosh was also approached to be part of Dancing with the Stars in Australia[10], but has not appeared in the new series.
Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_McIntosh
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