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Byline: Lauren Waterman
Teresa Palmer's first acting gig required her to spend weekends "dressed as Strawberry Shortcake or the Christmas Fairy," wandering the shopping centers of her native Adelaide, South Australia. "But you can't grow up where I did and expect . . . I mean, you can always dream of becoming an actress, but it's not really reality. It doesn't happen."
Unless, of course, it does. Writer-director Murali Thalluri spotted her and cast her, without so much as an audition, as a suicidal rape victim in his independent debut, 2:37. Soon after, the aspiring starlet found herself on the red carpet at Cannes, clad in sparkly Versace. "I still get shivers when I think about it," she says.
Now the golden-haired, blue-eyed beauty has made her way to Los Angeles. "It's been two weeks that I've been an official California ...