Joel Nash
| Joel Nash | |||||||||||||||||
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| Home and Away character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by |
David E Woodley Kameron Blight (flashback) |
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| Duration | 1998-2000 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 18 February 1998 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 11 October 2000 | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former, regular | ||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Teacher Police officer |
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| Home | Queensland | ||||||||||||||||
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| Father | Jack Nash |
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| Brothers | Travis Nash |
| Half-brothers | David Andrews |
| Half-sisters | Claire Andrews |
| Wife | Natalie Collins |
| Sons | Tom Nash |
| Daughters | Gypsy Nash |
| Granddaughters | Lily Smith |
Joel Nash is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Home and Away played by David E Woodley. Joel made his first appearance on 18 February 1998 and departed on 11 October 2000.
In 1997, after Debra Lawrance quit her role as Pippa Ross producers decided to introduce a new family to run the caravan park, because the household was seen as the "centrepieice of the show". They created the Nash family consisting of parents Joel and Natalie, played by Woodley and Angelica la Bozzetta respectively and children Gypsy (Kimberley Cooper) and Tom (Graeme Squires). The family come to Summer Bay from Hong Kong to start a new life.
Woodley, prior to his acting career, had worked as a federal police officer in Melbourne. When opportunities for working overseas ceased, Woodley applied for the force back in Queensland where he originated. During the 12-month interim period before he was able to join, he began doing television commercials and after wanting to be the 'person who talks' and not just a featured extra, he began acting workshops which led to being asked to be involved in local, theatre productions. A night of William Shakespeare at the Metro Arts Theatre where Woodley, having broken his toe the day before, sported a walking stick during his portrayal of Petruchio from The Taming of The Shrew and in-which he did the unspeakable and ad-libbed a final line of having to first tend to his crutch(crotch). He was then asked by members of that performance to join a local theatre group as Lance-Corporal Clive Winton in the English farce, See How They Run by Philip King. "As it was my first experience with acting (besides dressing up as a Can-Can Dancer' for a high-school Bastille Day production), I was enjoying myself enormously so I was hesitant to go back into the force, but as I had set my goals on a law degree, I thought it was a safer and more secure option". Woodley did go back into training for the Queensland police, but then gave it away to pursue his acting career.
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