Biography

Sharni Vinson (born July 22, 1983 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian model and actress. Vinson studied with the Australian Theatre for Young People for four years and enrolled as a student in the Brent Street School of Performing Arts, studying dance when she was twelve. On leaving high school, Vinson continued her studies as a full-time student with the Brent Street School. Vinson portrayed the role of Cassie Turner in the Australian soap opera Home and Away from 2004 to 2008. She joined the show permanently in December 2004, having previously appeared twice on the show as a minor character and auditioning for the role of Martha McKenzie but losing out to Jodi Gordon. Vinson left on 4 April, 2008 to pursue her career in the US so that she could be with her American boyfriend, AJ Buckley.

Vinson appeared in the CSI New York Season 4 cliffhanger titled “Hostage”. She portrayed the role of Lori Mandel, a pregnant woman held hostage in a bank.

Vinson also had a guest role in episode 13 of NCIS, “Broken Bird”, which first aired on 13 January 2009. She played the part of an airline hostess named Jeanette.

She has also appeared in other Australian television shows such as Saturday Disney, The Footy Show, and the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children Telethon.

In 2006 Vinson was nominated for a TV Week Logie Award for Best New Talent for her performance in Home and Away. Vinson was a member of four piece girl group FoxFire IV who had minor chart success with their single “Roses” reaching the top 50 ARIA singles charts. The follow up single “Romeo” was not released and the group parted ways. “Romeo” was eventually used on Francesca Belperio’s album Way Of The World.

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