Kate Fischer

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Kate Fischer
Born
Katherine Helen Fischer

(1973-11-30) 30 November 1973 (age 50)
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
NationalityAustralian
American
Occupation(s)Model, actress
Years active1987–2007, 2017
Parent(s)Alastair Fischer
Pru Goward

Tziporah Atarah Malkah (born Katherine Helen Fischer; 30 November 1973) is an Australian former model and actress.

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Early life and career

Katherine Helen Fischer was born on 30 November 1973 in Adelaide, South Australia, the daughter of future Australian politician Pru Goward and university lecturer Alastair Fischer. [1] She is the eldest of three daughters. [2] She attended the Canberra Girls' Grammar School [3] before going to Narrabundah College. [4]

In 1987, at the age of 13, Malkah won the Dolly Covergirl of the Year competition [3] and was touted as the next Elle Macpherson. [5] By the early 1990s, she had become a high-profile model working in Sydney and New York. [6] [7] She did shoots for Bloomingdales, Glamor magazine and Mademoiselle, [6] and was featured on the covers of Black + White magazine [8] and Vogue Australia . [4] In 2005–2006, Malkah was the face of AMP Capital Shopping Centres in Australia. [9]

In 1993, Malkah had a role in the Australian film Sirens , playing alongside Elle Macpherson, Portia de Rossi, Sam Neill and Hugh Grant [10] as one of the three life models of painter Norman Lindsay. [11] In 1995, Malkah was recruited for an ongoing role in the Network 10 TV soap opera Echo Point which aired for six months. [12] She appeared in several of the Elle McFeast (Libbi Gorr) comedy specials on ABC TV such as Breasts (1996) and The Whitlam Dismissal (1996). [13]

For two years (1996–1997), Malkah was the host of the Looney Tunes cartoon show What's Up Doc? on the Nine Network. In 1997, she had a small part in the Australian film Dust Off the Wings , a drama set amidst Sydney's surfing culture. [14] In 2000, she starred in the horror film Blood Surf , filmed in South Africa. [15]

Malkah starred as a blind girl who is courted by a struggling comedian in the Australian film comedy The Real Thing (2002) [16] and had a small role as a CIA agent in the Steven Seagal direct-to-video action film The Foreigner (2003). [17] [18] In 2002, she appeared in three episodes of the Channel 7 medical drama series All Saints . [19]

In 2005, Malkah resurfaced on the Nine Network's Celebrity Overhaul , a show in which celebrities try to regain their fitness through good diet and exercise habits. [20]

In 2006, Malkah appeared as a guest judge on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) program Song For The Socceroos and as a contestant on the Seven Network TV show It Takes Two . [1] The same year, she also made a guest appearance on the first series of The Chaser's War on Everything on ABC TV and also became the host of the short-lived weekly clip show Top 40 Celebrity Countdown on the Seven Network. [21]

In 2007, she filmed a short comedy video, Supermodel Hotdog, which aired on YouTube. The sketch, filmed at her LA apartment, self-satirised her popular image as a celebrity and movie star. [22]

In January 2017, Malkah (having legally changed her name several years earlier) became a contestant on the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! [23] She was evicted by a public vote on day 31 after spending 30 days in the African jungle. [24] Following her departure, she made news headlines after some awkward post-eviction interviews. [25]

Personal life

She was engaged to businessman James Packer until the couple separated in 1998 after five years together and a two-year engagement. [26] Their breakup received wide coverage in both the mainstream and tabloid press, fueled by rumours regarding the extent of the financial settlement. [27] Malkah later stated she received "a few hundred thousand dollars" and the house they had formerly shared. [1] She eventually sold the house for A$2,825,000 in 2000. [28] Since 1998, Malkah has spent much of her time living in the United States. While there, she converted to Judaism and changed her name to Tziporah Atarah Malkah. [1]

Malkah claims her maternal grandmother 'Zipporah Goward' was born in Israel and hence Malkah claims her Jewish heritage, although her genealogy family tree states her heritage is actually Cornish https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000177911251859

According to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2010, Malkah described herself as a political conservative and a supporter of the US Republican Party and the Australian Liberal Party. [29]

After returning to Australia in 2011, she resided at a boarding house for 22 months due to reduced circumstances. [30]

In 2016, it was reported that Malkah was living in Toorak, Victoria, and employed as an aged care worker. [31]

Filmography

Cultural references

In 1997, "Kate and Barbie", a portrait of Malkah by Australian painter Paul Newton was a finalist in the annual Archibald Prize exhibition [32] and is now in her private art collection. Newton also painted another portrait of Malkah the same year titled "Homage to Madame X", now owned by her mother, Pru Goward. [33] David Bromley painted her portrait in 2001. [8]

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