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- Height6′ 2½″ (1.89 m)
- Debicki was born in Paris to a Polish father and an Australian mother of Irish descent who were both dancers. When she was five, the family moved to Melbourne, where she grew up with two younger siblings. She became interested in ballet at an early age and trained as a dancer until deciding to switch to theatre. A student at Huntingtower School in Melbourne's east, Debicki achieved two perfect study scores in drama and English and was the school's dux when she graduated in 2007. In 2010, she completed a degree in drama at the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts. In August 2009, she was the recipient of a Richard Pratt Bursary for outstanding acting students in their second year of training.
- IMDb mini biography by: Alexandre Baltazar
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- Statuesque height
- Parents were both professional ballet dancers, and she always assumed she would go into the family business. However, at the age of 12 she was taller than all of her teachers. She began concentrating on contemporary dance instead, and then somewhere along the line fell in love with acting and applied to drama school.
- Was offered the part of Kat in Tenet (2020) without an audition, but insisted on doing one anyway. It was really important for her to know that she could do what Christopher Nolan was looking for, and according to the director she came in and blew everyone away.
- Reportedly beat out Charlize Theron and fellow Aussie Rose Byrne for her role in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015).
- Upon graduating from high school at age 17, she had to decide between studying drama at the University of Melbourne or attending law school on an academic scholarship, having already gotten in. She said that her parents were "rightfully concerned" when she decided to forgo law school and study acting instead.
- Her performance as golfer Jordan Baker in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013) was ranked #32 in IndieWire's 'The 50 Best Movie Performances of the Decade'. [2019].
- If it's a real passion, it's almost like a need. As a child, I got bored with my surroundings, so I would be another person for a little while. I was obsessed with Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990) so I developed into one of the characters and told everyone that I was the character. It's like a need, you have to change. And as soon as I've finished one thing, I'm like, okay, what can I be next?
- There's a lot to be said for being in a room with a casting agent or a director. There are things you can't really replicate when you're self-taping and there's the bonus of having someone to direct you, which is extremely helpful. The benefit of self-taping is, I suppose, being on your own clock. It's certainly more relaxing to self-tape than to audition with someone in the flesh but I don't know if it's necessarily better.
- What I always think when I am asked that or have to consider that is that if I didn't get a role because I was too tall, then I don't think I wanted it anyway. My agent was never going to call me up and say, "Look, they didn't want you because you're tall," because there's nothing I can do about that. I'm sure it's happened. It's been a process in my life but I'm really proud of it. It's been a journey coming to terms with it.
- I was small once upon a time. But I was always tall for my age. At about 12, I really shot up, which I minded because I felt different to all my friends, and I slouched a lot on one hip. But my parents are dancers, so they used to come up and grab my shoulders back.
- I was a dancer for many years, and I thought I was going to be a ballerina. I once went to summer school for the Australian ballet, and I was taller than my teacher. So I remember thinking I'm gonna have to rethink this plan. I did a lot of contemporary dance until I was about seventeen and then I went to acting school.
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