Kym Wilson

Wilson was born in Brisbane on 1 April 1973.^[1][2] She attended singing and dance classes from a young age. When she was six years old, she acquired an agent and she later appeared in television commercials.^[3] At the age of eight, her family moved to Sydney.^[4] She attended Stella Maris College in Manly.^[5] Wilson left school during Year 11 to pursue an acting career.^[6]

Wilson made her television debut playing a minor role in the 1985 miniseries Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin opposite Justine Clarke when she was 11 years old.^[3][6] Five years later, she appeared in John Duigan's 1991 film Flirting, the sequel to The Year My Voice Broke, alongside Nicole Kidman and Noah Taylor.^[4] Duigan recommend Wilson for her breakout role of Rosemary Fitzgerald in the 1991 ABC TV miniseries Brides of Christ.^[4] In 1992, she won the Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent for her role in the miniseries.^[7]

Wilson appeared in the Sydney Theatre Company's 1991 production of The Crucible, before joining the main cast of medical drama A Country Practice as Darcy Hudson in 1991.^[8] She replaced Emily Symons as co-host of the music program Video Smash Hits from 25 January 1992 until 1994.^[9][10] After A Country Practice ended in 1993, she had a three month recurring role as teacher Sam Robinson in Heartbreak High.^[11] She also filmed a role in miniseries The Man from Snowy River and appeared in David Williamson's play Brilliant Lies.^[11] Wilson appears in the Cody: The Wrong Stuff telemovie as Skye, a love interest for the main character played by Gary Sweet.^[12]

In 1995, Wilson co-founded the theatrical production company Pork Chop Productions with her then-boyfriend Jeremy Sims.^[13] The company staged a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Belvoir street theatre, which Wilson produced and Sims directed and starred as Guildenstern.^[13] Wilson guested in a March 1995 episode of G.P. as the girlfriend of Michael Winters (played by Brian Rooney).^[14] She also starred as Rachel in the Sydney Theatre Company's first production of Nick Enright's play Blackrock, before taking the role of "streetwise" Tiffany in 1996.^[15] Wilson appeared in the 1996 Australian film Inner Sanctuary, and had a starring role as Tess McLeod in the original McLeod's Daughters telefilm.^[15] Wilson did not reprise her role for the subsequent television series.^[16] She made a guest appearance in an episode of Water Rats in February 1997.^[17]

In April 1998, Wilson appeared in the guest role of Raelene in All Saints.^[18] She also starred in Geoffrey Brown's thriller film Reflections.^[19] Midway through 1998, Wilson relocated to the United States and she undertook a three-month acting scholarship assisted by the Winston Churchill Fellowship.^[20] She undertook studies at a Shakespearian company in Massachusetts, and the Moscow Art Theatre at Harvard.^[21] Wilson appeared nude on the cover of the May 1999 edition of Australian Playboy.^[22][23] She had previously appeared semi-naked in the first issue of Black+White magazine in 1992.^[24]

In 2001, Wilson appeared in a Brisbane stage production of Secret Bridesmaids' Business.^[25] She provided voice acting for the 2002 video game Ty the Tasmanian Tiger^[26] and its 2004 and 2005 sequels.

She took a hiatus from acting to work as the LA-based business partner of Sydney fashion designer Leona Edmiston. She enjoyed the experience but realised that acting was still her passion.^[1] In 2015, she returned to Sydney, to sell her first home in Elvina Bay. She also planned to return to television and was developing a limited television series with her husband.^[1] Wilson appeared in Australian Theatre Company's production of Speaking in Tongues at the Matrix Theatre in Hollywood, which earned her a Stage Scene LA award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.^[21]

In the early 1990s, Wilson played in Sydney country and western band, Honky Tonk Angels, together with fellow actors Loene Carmen, Justine Clarke, Noah Taylor, Terry Serio and Carmen's father Peter Head.^[27] They performed in Sydney and Melbourne and appeared live on Tonight Live with Steve Vizard, but disbanded in 1992, without recording.^[28] A book about the band, Honky Tonk Angels: An Illustrated History was written by Carmen in 2011.^[27]

Together with her husband, Wilson runs BonnieBlue Productions.^[29]

Wilson began a relationship with fellow Australian actor and director Jeremy Sims in late 1991.^[30] They met through her Brides of Christ co-star Josephine Byrnes and got to know one another at a charity flower show. They appeared together in a production of Love Letters at the Sydney Opera House in April 1992.^[30] Wilson and Sims became engaged and were set to be married on 1 April 1994, but the wedding was postponed when Wilson accepted a recurring guest role in television series The Man from Snowy River.^[31]

In November 1997, Wilson and her then-boyfriend, Sydney barrister Andrew Reyment were the last people to see INXS frontman Michael Hutchence alive, after they had visited him in his hotel 10 hours before his death.^[32]

Wilson married her partner of ten years, Canadian screenwriter Sean O'Byrne on 9 October 2009.^[33]

As of 2008, Wilson was a board member of Australians in Film, based in Los Angeles.^[34]