Tasma Walton

Tasma Walton
Born (1973-08-19) 19 August 1973
Geraldton, Western Australia
Occupation Actress
Years active 1995–present
Spouse(s) Rove McManus (m. 2009)
Children 1

Tasma Walton (born 19 August 1973[1] in Geraldton, Western Australia) is an Australian television and film actress.

Acting career

Walton joined local radio station 6GE and trained as a production assistant and copy writer in her home town. She was accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) but dropped out after two years. She joined a small Sydney theatre, and in 1995 played the recurring role of Rachel Watson in Home and Away.[2]

In 1996, Walton was cast as Dash McKinley in the police drama series Blue Heelers. Her character was introduced halfway through Season 3.[3] To win the role of Dash, Walton auditioned three times. Her second one with William McInnes (Nick Schultz) gained her the role. In the audition Schultz yelled at Dash and while some of the other actresses burst into tears, Walton reacted by laughing. In the same year she made her film debut in Fistful of Flies. Her last episode of Blue Heelers, "The Full Circle" screened in mid-1999. Walton stated that she was leaving the series to pursue other acting projects and to be with her then boyfriend in Sydney.

She has since appeared in a variety of film and TV productions, including Water Rats, Sea Patrol, The Postcard Bandit and Perdition. She also won recurring roles in White Collar Blue and BeastMaster.

In 2009, Walton joined the cast of City Homicide in the semi-regular role of criminal profiler, Claudia Leigh.[4] On 27 July 2013, it was announced that Walton had rejoined the cast of Home and Away in the guest role of Jade Montgomery.[2]

Personal life

Walton was in a relationship with Danny Roberts for seven and a half years until 2004.[5] She began dating Rove McManus in October 2007. They married in a private ceremony in Broome, Western Australia on 16 June 2009.[6] In September 2013, Walton and McManus announced that they were expecting their first child.[7] The couple's daughter was born two weeks prematurely on 16 December 2013.[8]

Filmography

Film and Television
Year Title Role Notes
1995 Home and Away Rachel Watson 7 episodes
1995 Echo Point Gina TV series
1995–
1999
Blue Heelers Kim Treloar, Const. Deidre E. 'Dash' McKinley 130 episodes
1996 Fistful of Flies Maria Lupi
1998 Cody: The Wrong Stuff TV movie
1999 Airtight Virg TV movie
2000 Virtual Nightmare Wendy TV movie
2000 Water Rats Belinda Harvey Episode: "Able to Leap Tall Buildings"
2000 BeastMaster Caro Episode: "The Burning Forest"
Episode: "Xinca"
Episode: "Ghosts of the Forest"
2001 Secret Life of Us, TheThe Secret Life of Us Leah Episode: "The Garden of Gethsemane"
Episode: "Secrets and Lies"
Episode: "Better the Devil You Know"
2002 BeastMaster Caro Episode: "The Hunter"
2003 Subterano Stone
2003 Postcard Bandit, TheThe Postcard Bandit Frankie TV movie
2003 White Collar Blue Gemma Mancuzzo Episode: "2.10"
Episode: "2.11"
2004 Roll Emma
2004 McLeod's Daughters Tracy Morrison Episode: "Show of Love"
2005 Safety in Numbers Caroline
2005 Perdition Jo
2005 Little Oberon Georgie Green TV movie
2006 BlackJack: At the Gates Sylvia TV movie
2006 Stupid Stupid Man Janine Russell Episode: "A Very, Very Private Function"
2009 Together Alone Trish
2009 Sea Patrol Jila Episode: "Secret Cargo"
2009 Blessed Gail
2009 Dreamland April Freeman
2009 City Homicide Claudia Leigh 13 episodes
2013 Mystery Road Mary Swan
2013–2014 Home and Away Jade Montgomery
2015 Looking for Grace

Books

Theatre

Awards

References

  1. "Panscript". Panscript. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
  2. 1 2 Schipp, Debbie (27 July 2013). "Underbelly: Squizzy and Ripper Street prove yet again that crime pays for free-to-air TV". The Daily Telegraph (News Limited). Retrieved 28 July 2013.
  3. Browne, Rachel (27 April 1996). "Cop gives shop a break". The Sun-Herald (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  4. Dennehy, Luke (1 February 2009). "Rove, Tasma in showdown". Herald Sun (The Herald and Weekly Times). Retrieved 20 June 2012.
  5. Keenan, Catherine (7 September 2009). "Who's that girl?". The Age (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  6. "Romancing Rove: Tasma Walton Dishes On Proposing To Rove". Who. Pacific Magazines. 31 July 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  7. Hornery, Andrew (9 September 2013). "Rove McManus and wife Tasma Walton are expecting their first child". The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  8. Casamento, Jo (21 December 2013). "Early Christmas present for Rove and Tasma as baby Ruby arrives". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 December 2013.

External links

Tasma Walton at the Internet Movie Database

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