‏Katherine Wallace‏

Katherine Wallace has been actively performing and appearing in high profile works addressing human rights and social justice issues from a young age. Her capacity for using the screen and stage as a platform for bringing awareness, inspiring hope and connection, and encouraging change is unmatched.Her professional film debut was in a leading role opposite AFI Award winner Annie Byron in the film Glory (2007), which was funded by the Australian Film Commission, Screen Australia and Metro Screen. After booking her first national commercial for the iconic Australian brand Arnotts, she went on to appear alongside Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber in Marvel's blockbuster X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), in the pivotal role of Celine in Late Tuesday (2009), a cinematically beautiful and disturbing film by Jenna Eriksen that sought to expose the prevalence of rape and violence against young women, and in the role of Grace Carmody on Australia's second-longest running drama series Home and Away (1988) She also appeared in the art installation series Cockatoos Headdress: Frenzy (2010) by award-winning photographer and video artist Rafaela Pandolfini.She was accepted to the prestigious 3 year conservatory program at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and moved to New York City in 2010. She was recognized as an internationally emerging Australian artist of exceptional talent by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and awarded an arts grant of the highest eligibility. While in New York, she performed in the "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Shakespeare Benefit," the feminist play "Vinegar Tom," directed by award-winning director Kathy Gail MacGowan, the original physical theatre piece about gun violence, "Overload", and the Bold Talent Aiding Charities Fashion Show (2013) which raised over $15,000 for the organization K.I.D.S. She also traveled to Zambia in 2012 to volunteer with children in UNHCR's Meheba Refugee Settlement. She graduated from the Stella Adler Studio in 2013 and relocated to Los Angeles, where she immediately signed with an agent.Katherine has sustained a successful international career in work addressing human rights and social justice, in collaboration with notable celebrities and high profile artists. Her most notable works include the lead role in the world premiere of the ethnodrama Call This Number (2014), which earned critical acclaim in The Los Angeles Times, OC Weekly and OC Register; appearing in an anti-bullying performance of "Really Don't Care" at the Teen Choice Awards 2014 (2014), alongside Demi Lovato and Cher Lloyd; and her performance with Levitere in "One Billion Rising," by Eve Ensler the largest mass action in history to combat violence against women, alongside award-winning actress Mercy Malick, speakers Frances Fisher, Sufe Bradshaw, Gethin Anthony, Don Most, G. Hannelius, and Akil I LuQman, and the international flash mob dance choreographed by Debbie Allen.In 2015, she appeared on Hellevator (2015) from Blumhouse Productions, produced by Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Jason Blum. She also co-wrote, co-produced and starred in the lead role of the original comedy series Sessions with My Parents (2015).In 2016, Katherine will be appearing in an inspiring music video and PSA, 'One In A Million', that will bring awareness to domestic violence and abuse, directed by Emmy Award winner Suzanne Luna and produced by Emmy Award nominee Johanna Stein. The original song is co-written by Grammy Award winner Danny Weinkauf and Suzanne Luna. Katherine will also appear in feature films Gehenna (2016) and False Memory Syndrome (2016) in 2016.She resides in Los Angeles, California.