Kestie Morassi

Kestie Morassi is an Australian actress who works in film and television. She grew up in Adelaide until she was thirteen and trained at the National Theatre in Melbourne, graduating in 1994, then studied for five more years at the Drama with a Difference school, where she later taught full time. She debuted on Neighbours in 1996, then took early 2000s roles on BeastMaster, Stingers and The Secret Life of Us. She moved into films in 2002 with Dirty Deeds, nominated for a Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Supporting Actor award, and appeared in Darkness Falls (2003) and Strange Bedfellows (2004). Wolf Creek (2005), in which she played backpacker Kristy Earl, screened at Sundance and earned her an Australian Film Institute Best Supporting Actress nomination. Television work includes Natalie in Satisfaction, Zarah Garde-Wilson in Underbelly, a Wilfred guest spot and Maggie Astoni in Home and Away from 2017 to 2020. She returned to film in Surrogate (2022).