Elizabeth Debicki
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Elizabeth Debicki
Elizabeth Debicki (born August 1990[1] in Paris[2]) is an Australian actress
Debicki was born in Paris and arrived in Australia at the age of five.[2] She is of Polish and Irish descent.[3] Debicki attended Huntingtower School in Melbourne's east. She trained in dance before switching to theatre.[4][5] Debicki studied at the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 2010.[2] In August 2009, she was the recipient of a Richard Pratt Bursary for outstanding acting students in their second year of training.[6]
After seeing Debicki's reel, director Baz Luhrmann flew her to auditions in Los Angeles.[1] In May 2011, Luhrmann announced that she had been cast as Jordan Baker in his 2013 adaptation of The Great Gatsby.[7] Filming began in September 2011
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Elizabeth Debicki (born August 1990[1] in Paris[2]) is an Australian actress.Debicki was born in Paris and arrived in Australia at the age of five.[2] She is of Polish and Irish descent.[3] Debicki attended Huntingtower School in Melbourne's east. She trained in dance before switching to theatre.[4][5] Debicki studied at the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 2010.[2] In August 2009, she was the recipient of a Richard Pratt Bursary for outstanding acting students in their second year of training.[6]
After seeing Debicki's reel, director Baz Luhrmann flew her to auditions in Los Angeles.[1] In May 2011, Luhrmann announced that she had been cast as Jordan Baker in his 2013 adaptation of The Great Gatsby.[7] Filming began in September 2011.[8]
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As pot-stirring Jordan Baker in 'The Great Gatsby', Elizabeth Debicki gives 'em something to talk about.
BY Justine Harman March 27, 2013
Before being cast as Jordan Baker in Baz Luhrmann’s kaleidoscopic retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby, 22-year-old Elizabeth Debicki had a different role in mind. "I always imagined that I was more of a Daisy," says the Melbourne, Australia, native. "She’s bubbly and beautiful—she's the heroine." But after seeing Debicki bring Fitzgerald’s "wan, charming, discontented" society girl to life on an audition tape, Luhrmann flew the unknown actress to L.A. to take a meeting.
"It’s kind of an amazing and completely unreasonable thing that happened," concedes the 2010 University of Melbourne graduate, whose only film experience was a small part in the 2012 comedy A Few Best Men. And yet, four months later, she was back in Australia filming alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire, who plays Jordan’s pie-eyed confidante Nick Carraway. "Theirs is not an epic love story," says Debicki, "but there is something quite modern about two people trying to figure each other out." For Maguire, that pragmatic interpretation is a testament to his costar's bravery. "Elizabeth kind of ate through her fear and was very bold in terms of exploring choices," he effuses. "I was very impressed by her presence."
So maybe she's a Jordan after all. "It was incredibly freeing to be so careless and callous," Debicki admits before recalling one of her favorite Gatsby moments: "Daisy is in a state of flux and [Jordan] says, 'Don’t be morbid. Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' It kind of sums her up—all of the mistakes, everything you do wrong during the year, you can wipe that slate clean, start again, and just get on with it."
‘Great Gatsby’s’ Elizabeth Debicki Attracted to ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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We don't get to see many female athletes in films. Hollywood occasionally throws us a superhero or Bond Girl bone, but these amped-up stereotypes rarely resemble the real deal. So it is with great refreshment that 22-year-old Aussie stunner Elizabeth Debicki enters mainstream cinema with a set of clubs. Debicki appears later this year in director Baz Luhrmann's highly anticipated new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as Jordan Baker: modern woman, Nick Carraway's "incurably dishonest" love interest, and, of course, professional golfer. Baker is one of the great jocks of American letters (though also a cheater and a reckless driver). But while Debicki may not have Baker's cutthroat competitive streak (although she took golfing lessons to master her perfect swing), she did relish the character's fierce independence. "You have to have that to pursue acting," she says. "Because there's no one to hold your hand to do it." Luhrmann cast the largely unknown actress alongside A-list company such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan. But like a seasoned pro, Debicki took her audition with the Australian director in stride. "He's so full of art and creativity," she says. "Somehow that energy in him sort of overpowered the nervous energy in me." Making a timeless character her own is part of the fun for Debicki, and even if she hasn't had much previous experience on film, she certainly made memorable choices while studying her craft in college. Debicki fondly recalls that while playing Beatrice in a drama school production of Much Ado About Nothing, she persuaded the director to let her wear Rollerblades for a major portion of the play.
While her turn in Gatsby may very well open Hollywood's gilded doors, Debicki is unfazed by the stardom and status that so many young actors aspire to. "It doesn't really appeal to me very much," she says. "When I went to school, it was all very idealistic. It was all just about making art and making theater. When I did my first film, I was like, ‘Oh my god. Is this actually a job? 'Cause this is what I would like to do for pleasure.'