Bec Hewitt
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Rebecca June "Bec" Hewitt (née Cartwright) (born 23 July 1983) is an Australian actress and singer. From 1998 to 2005, Hewitt played Hayley Smith Lawson
on the soap opera Home and Away
. As Bec Cartwright, Hewitt released an eponymous pop music album
in 2002. In 2005, she married tennis player Lleyton Hewitt
.
. She has also guest starred in Water Rats
and Roar
.
She won her breakout role and best known role to date in 1998 portraying Hayley Smith Lawson
on Home and Away
. Cartwright became a series fan favourite and earned herself numerous Logie Award
nominations until 2005 she earned a Most Popular Actress win. She left the series to become a full-time mother and her pregnancy was incorporated into the storyline. For a short period of time Ella Scott Lynch
replaced her as Hayley before shortly departing the series.
In 2002, Cartwright signed a recording contract with Warner Music Australia and East West Records. Her debut single "All Seats Taken
" was released 18 November 2002 and peaked at 10 on the ARIA Music Charts and met with mixed reviews. Her follow-up singles "On the Borderline
" and "A Matter of Time" both failed to match the same success, both charting only the Top 30. Her self-titled debut album
was released on 16 June 2003, and despite high expectations charted only at 21 and was certified Gold. The album met with mixed reviews with Smash Hits giving the album two out of five stars. In 2004, Cartwright ended her partnership with Warner Music.
Cartwright was announced as a contestant in the first season of Dancing with the Stars
. She and her partner Michael Miziner won the first season on 23 November 2004. The couple returned in an opening performance in a dance routine during the second season premiere.
She hosted Abba Mania which premiered in November 2006 on Nine Network
. The special met with controversy surrounding the fact that the only celebrity performers were Nine Network
personalities, with Hewitt's performance meeting with mixed reviews. As of November 2010, Bec has no plans to return to acting.
on 23 July 1983 the youngest child of Darrel and Michelle Cartwright. She has an older brother Shaun and older sister Kristy. After a four year relationship with fellow Home and Away
co-star Beau Brady
, Cartwright and Brady were briefly engaged.
Whilst living and sharing a house with Beau Brady
in Sydney's northern suburb of Avalon Beach and before the split with Brady was announced, Bec had a short fling with her Dancing With The Stars partner, Michael Miziner. After being seen with tennis player Lleyton Hewitt
on a drive from Adelaide to Melbourne in a Lamborghini sports car and then photographed with Hewitt at Clareville Beach,Sydney. Bec announced that she had split with Beau Brady. She began a relationship with tennis player Lleyton Hewitt
. After six weeks of dating, Hewitt proposed following the Australian Open Final. On 5 May 2005, the couple announced they were expecting their first child. The pair married on 21 July 2005; the wedding was at the Sydney Opera House
, and their reception took place at Taronga Zoo
, and was given much media attention. Fellow actors and friends Ada Nicodemou
and Kate Ritchie
were bridesmaids.
On 29 November 2005, she gave birth to daughter, Mia Rebecca Hewitt, at Sydney's North Shore Private Hospital. Mother and daughter now travel with Hewitt as he plays tennis all over the world. In June 2008, after much speculation, it was announced that the couple were expecting their second child in January 2009. On 11 December 2008, Hewitt gave birth to a baby boy whom the couple named Cruz Lleyton Hewitt. Their third child, a daughter named Ava Sydney Hewitt, was born on 19 October 2010.
In February 2009, after revelations about Hewitts previously unknown offshore income and bank accounts were revealed during a legal battle with his former management company, Octagon Sports Marketing, the couple relocated to a $3.8 million home at the Old Fort Bay estate in Nassau, Bahamas
.
Hayley Smith (Home and Away)
Hayley Rose Hunter is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away. She was portrayed from September 1998 to September 2005 by actress Bec Cartwright and from September to November 2005 by Ella Scott Lynch, after Cartwright left the show for personal...
on the soap opera Home and Away
Home and Away
Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...
. As Bec Cartwright, Hewitt released an eponymous pop music album
Bec Cartwright (album)
"A Matter of Time" is the third single from Bec Cartwright's eponymous debut album. The song peaked at #26 on the Australian Singles Chart.-Track listing:#"A Matter of Time" - 3:30#"A Matter of Time" - 5:14...
in 2002. In 2005, she married tennis player Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...
.
Career
Cartwright began her acting career at age 5 for television commercials. In 1992, she made her mainstream television debut on an episode of Police RescuePolice Rescue
Police Rescue was an Australian television series which originally aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC....
. She has also guest starred in Water Rats
Water Rats (TV series)
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney...
and Roar
Roar (TV series)
Roar is an American television show that originally aired on the Fox network in the summer of 1997. In the year AD 400, a young Irish man, Conor , sets out to rid his land of the invading Romans, but in order to accomplish this, he must unite the Celtic clans.-Premise:Roar chronicles the...
.
She won her breakout role and best known role to date in 1998 portraying Hayley Smith Lawson
Hayley Smith (Home and Away)
Hayley Rose Hunter is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away. She was portrayed from September 1998 to September 2005 by actress Bec Cartwright and from September to November 2005 by Ella Scott Lynch, after Cartwright left the show for personal...
on Home and Away
Home and Away
Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...
. Cartwright became a series fan favourite and earned herself numerous Logie Award
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...
nominations until 2005 she earned a Most Popular Actress win. She left the series to become a full-time mother and her pregnancy was incorporated into the storyline. For a short period of time Ella Scott Lynch
Ella Scott Lynch
Ella Scott Lynch is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Claire Anderson in the medical drama series All Saints.-Early life:...
replaced her as Hayley before shortly departing the series.
In 2002, Cartwright signed a recording contract with Warner Music Australia and East West Records. Her debut single "All Seats Taken
All Seats Taken
"All Seats Taken" is the debut single from Bec Cartwright's first album Bec Cartwright. The track peaked at #10 on the Australian Singles Chart in November 2002. The song was originally penned for the female finalists of Popstars 3...
" was released 18 November 2002 and peaked at 10 on the ARIA Music Charts and met with mixed reviews. Her follow-up singles "On the Borderline
On the Borderline
"On the Borderline" is the second single from Bec Cartwright's debut album, Bec Cartwright. It peaked at #29 on the Australian Singles Chart.-Track listing:#"On the Borderline" - 3:21#"On the Borderline" - 4:43...
" and "A Matter of Time" both failed to match the same success, both charting only the Top 30. Her self-titled debut album
Bec Cartwright (album)
"A Matter of Time" is the third single from Bec Cartwright's eponymous debut album. The song peaked at #26 on the Australian Singles Chart.-Track listing:#"A Matter of Time" - 3:30#"A Matter of Time" - 5:14...
was released on 16 June 2003, and despite high expectations charted only at 21 and was certified Gold. The album met with mixed reviews with Smash Hits giving the album two out of five stars. In 2004, Cartwright ended her partnership with Warner Music.
Cartwright was announced as a contestant in the first season of Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series)
Dancing with the Stars is a Logie Award-winning, Australian light entertainment reality show airing on the Seven Network and filmed live from the HSV-7 studios in Melbourne...
. She and her partner Michael Miziner won the first season on 23 November 2004. The couple returned in an opening performance in a dance routine during the second season premiere.
She hosted Abba Mania which premiered in November 2006 on Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
. The special met with controversy surrounding the fact that the only celebrity performers were Nine Network
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
personalities, with Hewitt's performance meeting with mixed reviews. As of November 2010, Bec has no plans to return to acting.
Personal life
Cartwright was born in SydneySydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
on 23 July 1983 the youngest child of Darrel and Michelle Cartwright. She has an older brother Shaun and older sister Kristy. After a four year relationship with fellow Home and Away
Home and Away
Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...
co-star Beau Brady
Beau Brady
Beau Brady is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Noah Lawson on the drama Home and Away.-Biography:Brady was educated at Oakhill College in Castle Hill, Sydney....
, Cartwright and Brady were briefly engaged.
Whilst living and sharing a house with Beau Brady
Beau Brady
Beau Brady is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Noah Lawson on the drama Home and Away.-Biography:Brady was educated at Oakhill College in Castle Hill, Sydney....
in Sydney's northern suburb of Avalon Beach and before the split with Brady was announced, Bec had a short fling with her Dancing With The Stars partner, Michael Miziner. After being seen with tennis player Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...
on a drive from Adelaide to Melbourne in a Lamborghini sports car and then photographed with Hewitt at Clareville Beach,Sydney. Bec announced that she had split with Beau Brady. She began a relationship with tennis player Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Hewitt
Lleyton Glynn Hewitt born 24 February 1981) is an Australian professional tennis player and former world no. 1.In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked no. 1 at the age of 20...
. After six weeks of dating, Hewitt proposed following the Australian Open Final. On 5 May 2005, the couple announced they were expecting their first child. The pair married on 21 July 2005; the wedding was at the Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...
, and their reception took place at Taronga Zoo
Taronga Zoo
Taronga Zoo is the city zoo of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Officially opened on 7 October 1916, it is located on the shores of Sydney Harbour in the suburb of Mosman...
, and was given much media attention. Fellow actors and friends Ada Nicodemou
Ada Nicodemou
Ada Nicodemou is a Greek Cypriot-born Australian actress, best known for her role as Leah Patterson-Baker in the soap opera Home and Away.-Early life:Nicodemou was born in Larnaca, Cyprus. She has been an Australian resident since 1987....
and Kate Ritchie
Kate Ritchie
Katherine "Kate" Ritchie is an Australian actress, best known for her long-running role as Sally Fletcher on the television soap opera Home and Away. She played the character for 20 years from 1988–2008...
were bridesmaids.
On 29 November 2005, she gave birth to daughter, Mia Rebecca Hewitt, at Sydney's North Shore Private Hospital. Mother and daughter now travel with Hewitt as he plays tennis all over the world. In June 2008, after much speculation, it was announced that the couple were expecting their second child in January 2009. On 11 December 2008, Hewitt gave birth to a baby boy whom the couple named Cruz Lleyton Hewitt. Their third child, a daughter named Ava Sydney Hewitt, was born on 19 October 2010.
In February 2009, after revelations about Hewitts previously unknown offshore income and bank accounts were revealed during a legal battle with his former management company, Octagon Sports Marketing, the couple relocated to a $3.8 million home at the Old Fort Bay estate in Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 , 70 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas...
.
Filmography
- 1998–2005: Home and AwayHome and AwayHome and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...
... Hayley Lawson #1 - 2000: RoarRoar (TV series)Roar is an American television show that originally aired on the Fox network in the summer of 1997. In the year AD 400, a young Irish man, Conor , sets out to rid his land of the invading Romans, but in order to accomplish this, he must unite the Celtic clans.-Premise:Roar chronicles the...
... Young Catlin (1 episode) - 1997: Water RatsWater Rats (TV series)Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney...
... School Girl (1 episode) - 1992: Police RescuePolice RescuePolice Rescue was an Australian television series which originally aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC....
... Emma (1 episode)
Albums
| Year | Title | Australia ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
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| 2003 | Bec Cartwright Bec Cartwright (album) "A Matter of Time" is the third single from Bec Cartwright's eponymous debut album. The song peaked at #26 on the Australian Singles Chart.-Track listing:#"A Matter of Time" - 3:30#"A Matter of Time" - 5:14... |
21 |
Singles
| Year | Song | Australia ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... |
Album |
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| 2002 | "All Seats Taken All Seats Taken "All Seats Taken" is the debut single from Bec Cartwright's first album Bec Cartwright. The track peaked at #10 on the Australian Singles Chart in November 2002. The song was originally penned for the female finalists of Popstars 3... " |
10 | Bec Cartwright Bec Cartwright (album) "A Matter of Time" is the third single from Bec Cartwright's eponymous debut album. The song peaked at #26 on the Australian Singles Chart.-Track listing:#"A Matter of Time" - 3:30#"A Matter of Time" - 5:14... |
| 2003 | "On the Borderline On the Borderline "On the Borderline" is the second single from Bec Cartwright's debut album, Bec Cartwright. It peaked at #29 on the Australian Singles Chart.-Track listing:#"On the Borderline" - 3:21#"On the Borderline" - 4:43... " |
29 | |
| "A Matter of Time" | 26 |