Kathy Troutt

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Kathy Troutt
Born (1947-09-14) 14 September 1947 (age 77)
Bath, Somerset, England
OccupationActress

Kathy Troutt (born 14 September 1947) is an English-born model, actress, deep sea diver[ clarification needed ] and dolphin trainer who moved to Australia in 1948.[ citation needed ]

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Diving career

At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the Guinness Book of Records for the deepest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air to a depth of 320 feet (97.5 m)[ clarification needed ] off Sydney Harbour with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds. [1] Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965. [2]

Modeling and acting career

Sports clothes and glamour model throughout the 1960s, she appeared on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (as herself) as a visiting marine biologist.[ clarification needed ] Troutt appeared in the documentary Mermaids in Paradise, released to television and cinemas in 1965 by Ben Cropp. [3]

Dolphin training

She worked in pantomime London, England, where she trained dolphins for movies. She was spotted by a representative of director Mike Nichols, where she was to train a dolphin for the feature film The Day of the Dolphin .[ citation needed ]

Troutt was later hired for similar work for the feature film The Blue Lagoon , in which she also played the body double for Brooke Shields. [4]

This was followed by work as a crew member on Return to the Blue Lagoon and several other feature films later produced in Australia and Asia. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Deep Dive" People magazine (Australia) by Alan Kershaw 17 November 1965
  2. ↑ Australian Skindivers magazine, December 1965 'Wreck of Catherine Adamston'.
  3. ↑ Harding, John, ed. (1971). "Interview with Kathy Troutt". Fathom . 1 (1). Sydney, NSW: Gareth Powell Associates: 30. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2017– via Blogger.com Fathom#1, Thursday May 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ Arnord, Gary (11 July 1980). "Depth Defying". The Washington Post . Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  5. ↑ Kathy Troutt with dolphin. Cover, Australian Women's Weekly, 19 September 1973


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