April Rose Pengilly is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n model

Model (person)

A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

, actress and presenter. April is the daughter of INXS

INXS

INXS are an Australian rock band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney, New South Wales. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on guitar/keyboards, Jon Farriss on drums, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/sax...

 member Kirk Pengilly

Kirk Pengilly

Kirk Pengilly is an Australian musician, best known as a member of the rock group :INXS.-Early career:...

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Early life

April attended Wenona

Wenona School

Wenona School is an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for girls, located in the Sydney suburb of North Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia....

, a girls school on the North Shore

North Shore (Sydney)

The North Shore is an informal term used to describe the primarily residential area of northern metropolitan Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The term usually refers to the suburbs located on the north shore of Sydney Harbour between Middle Harbour and the Lane Cove River, up to...

 of Sydney. She dabbled in modelling as a child, sporadically returning to it in her latter years of high school, and after graduating in 2005 decided to pursue it full time under the pseudonym

Pseudonym

A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...

 of April Rose - avoiding the Pengilly surname to separate herself from her famous father.

Career

April is currently represented by Chadwick Management in Australia and is also signed to TEAM (Japan) and Wilhelmina (New York).

She has featured in campaigns for Nokia

Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

, Macy’s New York, Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

, Bowie Wong

Bowie Wong

Bowie Wong is a Hong Kong-born Australian fashion and stage designer.- Early life :Bowie Wong was born in Hong Kong, China in 1969...

, Piper Lane and Kate Hurst.

She has been photographed for magazines including Elle

Elle (magazine)

Elle is a worldwide magazine of French origin that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. Elle is also the world's largest fashion magazine. It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means "she".-History:Elle was founded in...

(UK), Shop Til You Drop, Girlfriend, Madison, Marie Claire

Marie Claire

Marie Claire is a monthly women's magazine first published in France but also distributed in other countries with editions specific to them and in their languages. While each country shares its own special voice with its audience, the United States edition focuses on women around the world and...

, Oyster, Seventeen

Seventeen (magazine)

Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the...

(US), and Glitter (Japan).

April has worked in Sydney, Tokyo, New York, Osaka and London and been photographed by Rankin, Steven Chee, Nick Scott, Nicole Bentley, Pierre Toussaint

Pierre Toussaint

The Venerable Pierre Toussaint was an immigrant to the United States and a successful hairdresser in New York City during the Federal Period. Due to his devout and exemplary life, the Roman Catholic Church has been investigating his life for possible canonization.-Life:Pierre Toussaint was born as...

, James Demitri and Bradley Patrick.

April has also walked in shows for designers such as Tina Kalivas, Lover, Romance Was Born, Bowie Wong and Marnie Skillings.

In 2006, April was named the Spring/Summer 06/07 Youth Ambassador for major clothing retailer David Jones

David Jones Limited

David Jones Limited , colloquially known as DJs, is a high-end Australian department store chain.David Jones was founded in 1838 by David Jones, a Welsh immigrant, and is claimed to be the oldest continuously operating department store in the world still trading under its original name. It...

, which saw her working alongside Megan Gale

Megan Gale

Megan Kate Gale is an Australian model and actress.- Career :Born in Perth, Western Australia, Megan Gale's father is English and mother is part Maori and is the youngest of three children with two older brothers.-Modeling:...

 and Mischa Barton

Mischa Barton

Mischa Anne Marsden Barton is a British-American fashion model, film, television, and stage actress, best known for her role as Marissa Cooper in the American television series The O.C..-Early life:...

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In late 2008, director Alex Munt cast April alongside Australian acting heavyweights Toby Schmidt, Gracie Otto

Gracie Otto

Gracie Otto is an Australian actress, film producer, writer and film director.- Early life :Gracie Otto is the daughter of the Australian actor Barry Otto and Susan Hill. Her sister is actress Miranda Otto and her brother-in-law is actor Peter O'Brien...

, Septamus Caton and Bianca Chiaminello in the indie film LBF (working title) based on Cry Bloxsome's cult novel of the same name (due for release late 2010). April coloured her hair pink for the role.

In 2009, April was the Ambassador for the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, working alongside J. Alexander and Doutzen Kroes. She also worked as a TV presenter for Fashion TV

Fashion TV

Fashion TV is an international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel. It was founded in France in 1997 by its Polish-born president Michel Adam Lisowski, Fashion TV is the only 24/7 international TV network exclusively dedicated to fashion, beauty, glamour and style and has become...

 at London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week is an apparel trade show held in London, England twice each year, in February and September. It is one of the "Big Four" fashion weeks, along with New York Fashion Week, Milan Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week.-Organization:...

, before returning to Sydney for filming commitments.
In April 2010, she was a presenter at the MTV Classic launch in Melbourne, Australia, which also featured rock legend Slash.