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Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

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Born in England, Lara began her professional acting and singing career at the age of 9, gaining a part in the revered Cameron Mackintoshs' 10th Anniversary production of Les Miserables, playing the part of 'Young Eponine'. At 11 she landed the lead role of 'Lisa Atwood' in the ABC's Logie nominated International Children's Series, The Saddle Club. This was extremely successful which carried on to a second series and Lara then began performing live to massive audiences throughout Australia and New Zealand. Her singing achieved three Gold Records through the release of albums related to the series, and the albums were nominated for ARIA awards. She performed live at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and Melbourne's Equitana Show, The Mane Event Spectacular. Lara has performed numerous voice overs and TV/radio advertisements for McDonalds, The Tsunami Appeal, Toshiba, The Herald Sun, and for an animated game. She appeared in Channel 9's Waiting at the Royal, and has been a guest star on Newton's Good Morning Australia; The Today Show; the ABC's Creature Features; ABC Live; ;The Big Arvo, Hot Source and performed at the David Jones Christmas Parade; The Greater Geelong Baton Relay; Movieland's Outback Spectacular and the Gold Coast Children's Expo. The Saddle Club is also an international success and Lara has worked in Europe on the Italian Children's television program and magazine, Sorrissi . She was also a regular writer for 'Total Girl' magazine for many years. Lara's philanthropic work has included being a Patron for Riding for the Disabled and the Starlight Foundation, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. Lara completed the Foundation Musical Theatre Course at VCA, and her Diploma from Sydney Theatre School. She furthered her experience with a Directors course and a Presenting to Camera course at NIDA. She then achieved her Bachelor of Dramatic Arts degree at VCA, being offered many lead roles such as Michelle in Michael Gurr's Underwear, Perfume and Crash helmets, Mae in Maria Irene Forne's Mud, Hermione in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Olivia in St Kilda Tales. Since graduation Lara has obtained Australian and International agents, and continues her acting experiences with involvement in regular renowned international acting classes and workshops. Her career has taken Lara to Vancouver, where she had many successes and now she currently lives in LA, working between LA and Australia. More recently she has attended Screenworks The Business Of Producing workshop and writing workshops at Writing Pad which has inspired her to widen her horizons to producing and creating, and has written and developed two new projects for two different television series. She has worked in various short films and television shows including The Doctor Blake Mysteries ABC (January Films) a series which stars Craig MacLachlan and Nadine Garne. This year the TV series and movie "We Were Tomorrow" is released and Lara stars in one of the leading roles as the villain Georgia-May Ford, alongside Gyton Grantley, Nikolai Nikolaeff, Chris Kirby and Alicia Banit and Madeleine Kennedy. She can deliver US and British dialects.

Lara Jean Marshall in The Saddle Club (2001)

The whole Saddle Club cast are close, having sleepovers on the weekends
and sending each other birthday presents when they&#39;re overseas.

She sings on the Saddle Club albums &quot;Fun For Everyone&quot;, &quot;On Top Of The
World&quot;, &quot;Friends Forever&quot; and &quot;Secrets And Dreams&quot;.

Appeared in <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0407304/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">War of the Worlds (2005)</a> on a poster for <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0278876/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">The Saddle Club (2001)</a> featured in Rachel&#39;s
bedroom.

Her favorite horses from &quot;The Saddle Club&quot; are Patch and Prancer.

Attended the 2004 TV Week Logie awards with Saddle Club cast members
Keenen MacWilliam and Sophie Bennett

She has a cat called Gladiator, 2 dogs called Elvis and Priscilla, and
a guinea pig called Twinkletoes.

She says her favorite popstar to watch perform is Kylie.

She didn&#39;t ride horses before she was cast as Lisa on The Saddle Club.

She recorded two solo songs for &quot;The Saddle Club&quot; called &quot;Storm&quot; and &quot;Be A Star&quot;. &quot;Storm&quot; was later re-recorded for the new &quot;Saddle Club&quot; CD &quot;Best Friends&quot; and was re titled &quot;Storm (Midnight&#39;s Song)&quot;.

During her spare time, Lara enjoys horseback riding, swimming, soccer, and skiing.

In the middle of her senior year of high school. (September 2005)

Melbourne, Australia: Enrolled in a theater school. (February 2011)

The lead singer of her own band. (July 2004)

Graduated from Toorak College in 2006 alongside <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm2810387/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Jessica Featherby</a>.

She has posters of Orlando Bloom and Ryan Phillipe on her bedroom
walls.

Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) in 2011 with a Bachelor&#39;s of Dramatic Arts.

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