New blood … Yvonne Strahovski
features in the new season of Dexter.
Rob Lowman, The Sydney Morning Herald, reports
Barely known in her native Australia, Yvonne Strahovski has landed
a role on Dexter.
Australian actress Yvonne Strahovski was 23, with just a few local credits to her name, when she landed the role of Sarah Walker on Chuck. That show ran for five seasons and now she's landed a role in the latest season of Dexter, playing Hannah McKay, a woman with a dark past.
Australian actress Yvonne Strahovski was 23, with just a few local credits to her name, when she landed the role of Sarah Walker on Chuck. That show ran for five seasons and now she's landed a role in the latest season of Dexter, playing Hannah McKay, a woman with a dark past.
A homicide investigation brings her to the attention of the Miami
police department and crime-scene investigator Dexter (Michael C. Hall). It
transpires that Dex is somewhat smitten with Hannah.
''There may or may not be an attraction there between them,''
Strahovski says coyly. ''There's a lot of juicy secrets that she has in her
past that will come to life quite quickly. The audience will be satisfied very
quickly [with] where my character comes from and where she fits in the world of
Dexter. And they
will be doing something on the show this season that's never been done
before.''
Strahovski was offered the role of Hannah without auditioning and
says she was flattered when the producers called her. She had been only a
casual viewer of the show, so she says she had to watch all six seasons in
three weeks to catch up.
On set, she quickly stopped feeling like the new kid on the block.
''Everybody was so welcoming,'' she says. ''I've spent the majority of my time
with Michael, who is extremely generous, very much an actor's actor and so easy
to work with. He's amazing to watch and observe.''
Strahovski has been busy since Chuck
ended. Earlier this year, she shot a movie in Australia called I, Frankenstein with Bill
Nighy and Aaron Eckhart, which she calls more of a thriller than horror film.
She will also soon be seen in the movie The Guilt Trip, which
stars Barbra Streisand as Seth Rogen's overbearing mother. Strahovski plays the
high-school girlfriend of Rogen's character. ''It was great watching Barbra and
Seth together,'' she says. ''They are just such pros.''
Strahovski, who never used her return ticket to Australia after
she flew to Los Angeles to audition for Chuck,
hopes Dexter
will offer her a chance to delve into characters she hasn't played before. And
for now, Los Angeles is her home.
''I enjoy living in LA,'' she says. ''This is where the work is -
or, at least, generated from, because you fly off and do movies. ''It's sort of
a great way to see the world.''
Born in Sydney, Strahovski is the daughter of Polish immigrants.
The original spelling of her surname was Strzechowski but she changed it when
she landed the role on Chuck
''so the spelling would be a little bit easier. Otherwise it makes no sense to
someone who doesn't speak Polish.''
When it's pointed out to her that she could have become Yvonne
Jones, she says:
''I wanted to honour my heritage and where I came from and keep
the name. It was a tough decision to even change the spelling of it phonetically.
I wanted to keep it as close to the original as it can be.''
Considering she has been in Hollywood for more than five years,
Strahovski has kept a remarkably low profile in a town that thrives on gossip.
''I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff
separate,'' she says firmly.
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