Kate Fischer | |
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Born |
Katherine Helen Fischer 30 November 1973 Adelaide, South Australia |
Nationality | Australian, American |
Other names | Tziporah Malkah bat Israel Tziporah Malkah |
Occupation | Aged care worker, model, actress |
Parent(s) | Pru Goward, Alastair Fischer |
Katherine Helen "Kate" Fischer (born 30 November 1973), known by her current legal name Tziporah Malkah bat Israel, is an Australian-American aged care worker and reality television cast member, and a former model and actress.
Kate Fischer was born on 30 November 1973 in Adelaide, South Australia, the daughter of later politician Pru Goward and university lecturer Alastair Fischer. Her siblings are Penny Fischer and Alice Barnett. She attended the Canberra Girls' Grammar School before going to Narrabundah College.
In 1988, at the age of 14, Fischer won the Dolly Covergirl of the Year competition and was touted as the next Elle Macpherson. By the early 1990s, she had become a high-profile model working in Sydney. Fischer appeared on the cover of Vogue Australia four times and also had covershoots for GQ, Black & White and Elle magazines. In 2005-2006, Fischer was the face of AMP Capital Shopping Centres in Australia.
In 1993, Fischer embarked on an acting career and had a role in the Australian film Sirens, playing alongside Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi, Sam Neill and Hugh Grant as one of the three life models of painter Norman Lindsay. In 1995, Fischer was recruited for an ongoing role in the Network 10 TV soap opera Echo Point which aired for six months. In the mid-1990s, she appeared in several of the Elle McFeast (Libbi Gorr) comedy specials on ABC TV such as Breasts (1996) and The Whitlam Dismissal (1996).