Magda Szubanski

Born: 12 April 1961
Where: Liverpool, England

Magda was born in England to a Scottish mother and Polish father, migrating with her family to Australia at age five.

Determined to be a doctor, she studied so much science that she lost that urge. After a vacation in Scotland and a trip to the Edinburgh Festival while in her teens, she came home with a new career interest - show business.

At Melbourne University, she wrote and performed monologues in campus shows and auditioned for a comedy revue that became D-Generation , a highly successful TV series.

She followed by co-producing, co-writing and co-staring in TV�s Fast Forward, then decided to do straight drama with the Sydney Theatre Company.

After working on the two Babe films, Magda became an animal lover. She said: "Babe has been good for my career but I�ll always be equally grateful that it�s opened me up to animals. Before, I was never an animal person."

Sticking to animal movies, Magda appeared alongside Aussie Steve Irwin in The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course.