Tess Haubrich

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Tess Haubrich
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Tess Haubrich in July 2016
Born (1990-04-01) 1 April 1990 (age 33)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Education Pittwater High School
SCECGS Redlands
Alma mater Actors Centre Australia
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
Years active2009–present
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)

Tess Haubrich is an Australian actress and model who most recently played Heather in the 2022 Netflix sci-fi film Spiderhead .

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Early life and education

Haubrich was born on 1 April 1990 in Sydney, New South Wales. She was educated at Pittwater High School and SCECGS Redlands. [1]

Haubrich spent her late teens as a fashion model in Australia, Hong Kong, France and Germany. She trained for two years at the Actors Centre Australia, a private drama school in Sydney, where she trained in theatre.

Career

In 2009, she appeared in two episodes of the soap opera Home and Away as Catie Merrin. She returned to the series as a different character, Shandi Palmer, in 2014. [2]

Haubrich has appeared in a number of major international productions filmed in Australia, including minor roles in The Wolverine (2013) and Infini (2015); as Private Sarah Rosenthal in Alien: Covenant , and as Woman in Black in the Jackie Chan film Bleeding Steel , both in 2017. [1]

In late 2017, she had a leading role in the second season of Wolf Creek . [3] In 2018, she played a key character in the Australian spy drama series Pine Gap .

Filmography

Film

Key
Denotes works that have not yet been released
YearTitleRoleNotes
2009VinylShaylaShort
2009DrowningPhaedraShort
2010Some Static StartedPretty GirlShort
2013 The Wolverine Cashier
2013Like BreathingBelShort
2014Blood Pulls a GunThe Mysterious WomanShort
2015 Infini Lisa Carmichael
2015FoalAuroraShort
2016A Thousand WordsClaudiaShort
2017 Alien: Covenant Sarah Rosenthal
2017 Bleeding Steel Woman in Black
2018 Nekrotronic Torquel
2018I F*cked a Mermaid and No One Believes MeRoseShort
2022 Spiderhead Heather

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2009 Home and Away Catie MerrinEpisodes: "1.4988", "1.4992"
2011 Slide JessicaEpisode: "1.8"
2014 Jack Irish: Dead Point SiennaTV film
2014 Home and Away Shandi AyresRecurring role
2017 Wolf Creek Rebecca MichaelsMain role (series 2)
2018 Pine Gap Jasmina DelicTV miniseries
2019 Bad Mothers SarahMain Role
2019 Treadstone SamanthaRecurring role
2022 After the Verdict Heidi LangMain Role

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References

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