Melissa Tkautz
| Melissa Tkautz | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Melissa Natalie Tkautz |
| Born |
24 January 1974 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Genres | Pop, dance, Europop |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer-songwriter, model |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Labels | Phantom, Westside, J&B, Big, Rajon, Central Station, independent |
| Website | melissatkautz |
Melissa Natalie Tkautz (born 24 January 1974) is an Australian actress, singer-songwriter and model. As an actress Tkautz had the role of Nikki Spencer on the popular Australian TV soap opera, E Street, from September 1990 to May 1993. During the early 1990s she had a solo music career, performing mononymously as Melissa, and had top 20 hits on the ARIA Singles Chart with "Read My Lips" (No. 1, June 1991), "Sexy (Is the Word)" (No. 3, September) and "Skin to Skin" (No. 16, April 1992). Her debut album, Fresh, was released in June 1992 and peaked at No. 15 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
After her stint on E Street, Tkautz has appeared on Paradise Beach (1993–94), Pacific Drive (1996–98), All Saints (2001–02, 2004), Swift and Shift Couriers (2008, 2011) and Housos (2011). Her modelling career has included early child modelling, then as a teen in various pop entertainment magazines and from 1996 on fashion and men's magazines. On 4 December 2005, she issued her second solo album, Lost & Found, which provide a single, her cover version of "The Glamorous Life", which appeared in the top 40. In August 2011 she issued a compilation album, The Hits & More. In February 2009 Tkautz married a finance businessman, Kwesi Nicholas, her partner of five years; outside her performance career she uses her married name, Melissa Nicholas.
Tkautz was born in Sydney in 1974. According to Tkautz "I had very strict parents ... I wasn't allowed to do anything". Her father, Stefan Tkautz, is from Austria and her mother's family are Maltese. As a young child she studied drama, dance and singing; she began modelling and appearing in commercials. By the age of 17, she had appeared in over 160 television and print commercials. Some of these included ads for QANTAS and Cadbury. She started modelling and then began acting in TV soap operas, Richmond Hill and Home and Away in the late 1980s. In 1989 she entered the Miss Teen Australia contest.
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