Kym Wilson is an Australian actress.

Wilson was born in Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Australia. She completed her secondary education at Stella Maris College, Manly. Her first major role was in the television mini-series Brides of Christ and she remains best known for playing Darcy Hudson in A Country Practice

A Country Practice

A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...

. She was subsequently seen in series such as Heartbreak High

Heartbreak High

Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...

and All Saints

All Saints (TV series)

All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...

. Wilson also co-hosted the music program "Video Smash Hits" on the Seven Network

Seven Network

The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...

.

In 1992, Wilson won the 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...

 for Most Popular New Talent, as well as being nominated for "Most Popular Actress in a miniseries/telemovie" the same year. She was nominated for "Most Popular Actress" in 1993 and 1994.

In 1995, together with then boyfriend Jeremy Sims

Jeremy Sims

-Personal life:He was educated at Wesley College, Perth, 1977–83. Sims was married to film director Samantha Lang. They have two daughters, Frederique and Evelyn Rose.-Career:...

, Wilson formed the theatrical production company "Pork Chop Productions".

Wilson posed nude in Australian Playboy

Australian Playboy

Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of Playboy magazine that was published between February 1979 and January 2000 for a total of 252 editions.-Content:...

 late in her career after she was no longer acting regularly in TV series. She previously appeared semi-naked in Black+White

Black+White

Black+White was a bimonthly Australian magazine published by Studio Magazines that debuted in the summer of 1992. For a period it was also known as Black+White magazine....

 magazine.

She moved to the USA in 1998 to escape press attention, where she undertook a three months acting scholarship assisted by the Winston Churchill Fellowship

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

The Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts are three independent but related living memorials to Sir Winston Churchill. They are based in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts are three independent but related living memorials to Sir Winston Churchill. They are based...

, which she had won before Michael Hutchence's death.

As of 2008, Kym Wilson was a board member of Australian In Film, based in Los Angeles.

Filmography

• Family and Friends
  Family and Friends
  Family and Friends was a short-lived Australian television soap opera debuted on 7 February 1990.The series was intended to be the Nine Network's response to the already successful soaps on the rival channels - Neighbours on the Network Ten and Home and Away on the Seven Network.Set in a suburban...
  
  (TV, 1990) as Blondie
• Flirting
  Flirting (film)
  Flirting is a 1991 Australian coming of age film about a romance between two teenagers, written and directed by John Duigan. It stars Noah Taylor, who appears again as Danny Embling, a character from Duigan's 1987 film The Year My Voice Broke. It also stars Thandie Newton and Nicole Kidman....
  
  (1991) as Melissa Miles
• Brides of Christ (TV, 1991) as Rosemary Fitzgerald
• A Country Practice
  A Country Practice
  A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...
  
  (TV, 1991–1993) as Darcy Hudson
• Heartbreak High
  Heartbreak High
  Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...
  
  (TV, 1994–1995) as Sam Robinson
• McLeod's Daughters (TV, 1996) as Tess Silverman McLeod
• All Saints
  All Saints (TV series)
  All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...
  
  (TV, 1998) as Raeleen

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