A native of Melbourne, Victoria, glamorous Aussie actress Isabel Lucas ascended to fame on the crest of her portrayal of Tasha Andrews in the long-running, teen-oriented Australian soap Home and Away (1988); she signed with the program in 2003. Like numerous colleagues from the Australian silver screen, Lucas eventually made the crossover to Hollywood stardom, first with a U.S.-Australian co-production of the vampire outing Daybreakers (starring fellow countryman Sam_Neill, in addition to A-listers Ethan_Hawke and Willem_Dafoe) and then with a substantial role in the effects-heavy Hollywood opus Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).
Isabel was born in Melbourne, Australia. Her father is Australian and her mother is Swiss. When she was age 6, her family moved to Switzerland for a year. They moved back to Melbourne for a while before moving to a very small mining town in the Northern Territory (population 1,000). Along with her sister, she attended the Jabiru Area School, which included both white and Aboriginal children.
Although always interested in drama during her school years, Isabel didn't get her first television role until she auditioned for Home and Away; she played the part of Tasha Andrews from 2003 to 2006, and during this time won a Logie Award for her performance.
This was followed by a role in Steven Spielberg's World War II series The Pacific, and then a starring role in Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen.
