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Emma Harrison is an actress, model and dancer, best known for the role of Joanna Hartman in the Australian soap-opera Neighbours.
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and raised in Australia, Harrison started modelling at the age of 15, when she was spotted in the audience of a beauty contest and was signed by a local modelling agency. She started her television career with commercials, including Palmolive, and KFC.1
After she was signed, she spent the next two years working with Impulse and Coca-Cola. She also served as a feature model for many hair and beauty lines. Harrison also appeared in many pop culture magazines, eventually making appearances for many designers, including Donna Karan.
Harrison was discovered by the casting director of the popular TV series Neighbours and the team behind the show decided to write her into the program as part of the starring cast. In her part as Joanna Hartman she was nominated for Best New Talent at the Logie Awards.
Harrison travelled to England where she was already known, thanks to Neighbours. While in the UK, she hosted two television programmes and was selected as a presenter for the BAFTA Awards.
She has appeared on the covers of many magazines such as FHM, Loaded, Maxim, Ralph and Inside Sport. She was ranked #18 of FHM's 100 sexiest women of 1998, named one of the 100 sexiest sports models of 2003 by Inside Sport Magazine, and chosen by Australian Playboy as one of the 10 sexiest women in the world. Harrison also appeared in Australian Playboy as well as recording a celebrity special for Playboy TV in an effort to distance herself from her Neighbours good-girl image.
She has appeared on Ally McBeal and Just Shoot Me, as well as in commercials for Budweiser, Taco Bell, Subway, ABC Sports and TNT.
In cinema, Emma Harrison appeared in the Coen Brothers' Intolerable Cruelty, Robert Altman's The Company and in Street Fighter as Nicola.2
In 2004 Harrison appeared in eight installments of E!'s Style Network's Style Court and in the reality show Butler Bootcamp.
In 2006 she appeared in Take Home Chef with Curtis Stone on The Learning Channel.
In 2007 she appeared in an episode of McLeod's Daughters as Susan.
In late 2008, Harrison was named the primary spokesmodel for TheMall Channel, an electronic retail program scheduled for 2010.
Most recently, Harrison co-created and was the sole model for The Yoga Girl 2010 Calendar. The calendar is scheduled to be released in late 2009 by BrownTrout.
Emma Harrison currently resides in Los Angeles and Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia.