Vote for Sophie for Most popular actress, Most popular personality on TV,   at the 2012 Logie Awards here. Also remember to vote for The Slap as Most popular drama series. I´m not 100% sure, but I think you have to live in Australia to be able to vote..

BellaSugar Australia / NOVEMBER 17, 2011 9:32 AM

After rising to fame in Beautiful Kate, the gorgeous Sophie Lowe has always been on our radar — both for her acting roles and her effortless, sometimes eclectic style. She’s earned critical acclaim for her role as Connie in The Slap, the must-see mini-series which is in its penultimate episode — don’t miss it: ABC1, 8.30pm tonight. We caught up with her on the green carpet at the Jameson IF Awards last night and asked her to talk us through her stunning complexion so she opened up her clutch and revealed what’s inside . . .

Clé de Peau Concealer: “You can’t get it in Australia but whenever I’m in LA I get it.”
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Powder ($47)
BECCA: “I really like anything BECCA.” Try the brand’s Beach Tint ($33.60) or Bird of Paradise Gloss ($46)

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Summer kicks off tomorrow! We decided to check in with some of our favourite Aussie stars to see what they had planned for the warmer months. Some are escaping the heat for chillier climates, while others are looking forward to the break because it means spending lots of time with loved ones! Who hopes to stay indoors with air-con and play video games? And who’s heading to Fiji for a holiday? Click through to find out!

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Sophie Lowe
“Beach. Working out, because I have to wear a bikini [laughs]. I’m going to LA in January to check it out and do the rounds, but over Christmas and New Years I’ll be with my family.”
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Indie to film in Austrian Alps
By Gordon Cox
Peter Stormare and Sophie Lowe are among the thesps signed on to appear in “Autumn Blood,” the indie from musicvid and commercial helmer Markus Blunder.

Samuel Vauramo, Gustaf Skarsgard and Annica Bejhed also will appear in the film, which shoots in the Austrian Alps. Set on a farm in the Tyrolian mountains, pic follows the hard life of a pair of orphaned siblings, one of whom is played by Lowe (Aussie pic “Beautiful Kate”). Stormare portrays the vicious town mayor.

Helmer and producer Blunder initially made his mark in musicvideos, working with En Vogue, Shania Twain, Metallica and the Gypsy Kings, prior to shifting to commercial gigs.

Stephen Barton pens the script for “Autumn Blood.” Matt Tauber joins Blunder as a producer of the film, with Gunther Alois onboard as exec producer.

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Media Diary Blog | September 05, 2011
The Slap, the much-anticipated ABC1 miniseries, will screen on Thursday nights from October 6.

Only hours after publication of Media’s story about internal programming chaos at the ABC over the handling of the adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’s award-winning novel, a tweet from the show’s producers confirmed the premiere.

ABC1 planned to premiere the series starring Alex Dimitriades, Sophie Lowe, Jonathan LaPaglia and Melissa George, on Sunday nights in September after taking the bold, and ultimately successful, step to premiere two episodes during the Melbourne International Film Festival in August.

But Nine pre-empted the series by scheduling the new series Underbelly: Razor on Sunday nights, on the back of what was anticipated to be, and was, the finale of the reality series The Block.

Consequently, there has been some gnashing of teeth within the ABC about where to program one of its key 2011 assets. While Thursday nights don’t provide the bulk viewers attainable on a Sunday or even earlier in the week, the night is a fairly clear zone as one of Seven’s weakest nights before The X Factor arrived and Nine’s Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year not maintaining its high launch audience. ABC1 also attracts its biggest audience of the week on Wednesday – and last week its best for the year – on the back of The Gruen Transfer and Spicks and Specks.

The Slap will replace the young legal drama, Crownies.

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The Courier-Mail August 26, 2011 12:00AM

SYDNEY actress Maeve Dermody, most recently seen in the top-rating ABC mini-series Paper Giants, has been named News Ltd Australian Star of the Year.

On accepting the award at the Australian International Movie Convention on the Gold Coast, the up-and-coming star of Griff the Invisible and Beautiful Kate joined an illustrious group that includes Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Eric Bana and Abbie Cornish. Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver was last year’s recipient.

Oscar-winning producer Emile Sherman (The King’s Speech, Oranges and Sunshine) was presented with the new AIMC Outstanding Industry Achievement Award.

Lincoln Lewis (Tomorrow When The War Began) was named Male Star of Tomorrow.

Dermody’s Beautiful Kate co-star Sophie Lowe, soon to be seen in a television adaptation of best-selling novel The Slap, was named Female Star of Tomorrow.

The Murray Frost Award for film craft went to veteran animator Yoram Gross.

The awards were announced on the closing night of the 66th AIMC, which took place at Jupiter’s Casino on the Gold Coast.

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Watching Sophie Lowe on screen is mesmerising. Whether as a calculating teen (Beautiful Kate), a manipulative schoolgirl (Blame), or a delinquent daughter (Blessed), she effortlessly balances the youthful innocence of her often complex characters with a contrasting maturity. And lurking beneath is always a gravelly tension.

Lowe in person is something different entirely, all sweetness and light. Charmingly honest, she giggles often, mostly from nerves. She’s quick to clarify her comments, on the off chance she may have said the wrong thing or unwittingly upset someone, which would be entirely against her nature.

So, how then to explain the skilful insight and gripping frisson that underpins the 21-year-old’s performances? Call it raw talent. Lowe may blush at the suggestion (“I love challenging myself,” she offers, instead), but those who have worked with her happily confirm it. “She is magnetic,” says Miranda Otto, her co-star in 2009′s Blessed. “She has a fresh, young quality that is both fearless and unselfconscious.”

This month, we get another slice of Lowe’s beguiling repertoire, in the TV adaptation of The Slap (premiering on ABC1 in September). Based on the award-winning Christos Tsiolkas novel, the story is a snapshot of modern Australian life, centering around the fallout among a group of friends after one man reprimands someone else’s badly behaved toddler with a slap. Lowe plays Connie, a 16-year-old having an ambiguous affair with one of the adults in the group, a man more than twice her age.

For Lowe, the attraction was Connie—”she is a great character”—but also the “amazing” ensemble cast, which includes Jonathan LaPaglia, Melissa George, Alex Dimitriades, Essie Davis and British actress Sophie Okonedo. Lowe admits she was hungry for a part in the high-profile project.

“I really wanted it. I’ve never been that nervous for an audition! It seems since I’ve been doing more work, the more nervous I get; maybe it’s because of the expectations I feel now.”

Those expectations likely began in 2009, when, straight off the mark, Lowe was nominated for a Best Actress AFI Award; it was for her first role in a feature film, Beautiful Kate. She’s sustained that hype because, it’s said, she’s worth it. Matthew Saville, one of the directors of The Slap, says, “Sophie lights up the screen, but does so with such ease and such a lack of vanity that it is sometimes hard to discern which of the extraordinarily expressive moments she conjures are hers, and which belong to her character.” Her co-stars from the series are equally blown away: Davis calls her “unadulterated by ego and intriguing to watch.” Adds George, “Sophie is such a talented actress. When I glance at her I see a young girl and, at the same time, a leading lady—she can play both. She has a massive career ahead of her.”

Pick up the latest issue of InStyle, starring Katie Holmes on the cover, to read more of our interview with Sophie Lowe and check out our photo shoot with the home-grown hero. 

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PS. Sorry for not updating the gallery, but I´ve been experiencing some problems with uploading new pics..

Found this really interesting article about Sophie! Learned a few things about her that I didn´t know.

No class, but that’s a good thing
August 7 2011
Mesmerising actor Sophie Lowe has revealed she struggled at school and was ”borderline dyslexic”.

The talented actress, who is about to appear in the ABC TV adaptation of The Slap – as a 16-year-old having an affair with a much older man – tells tomorrow’s edition of InStyle magazine it was a no-brainer to drop out of high school and embrace her ground-breaking role in Beautiful Kate.

”I found school tough,” she says. ”It was good at defining what I wanted, but I’m borderline dyslexic; at times, it was soul-destroying.

”Beautiful Kate was the right excuse to leave. I knew what I wanted to do.”

Evidently she made the right choice. Miranda Otto (her co-star on Blessed) calls her ”magnetic” and ”fearless” while The Slap director Matthew Saville says ”she lights up the screen”. Essie Davis describes her talent as ”intriguing to watch” and Melissa George says she has ”a massive career ahead of her”.

But Lowe, shooting her first American film, The Philosophers, in Indonesia, insists she is incredibly shy. That is, until the flashlight comes on.

”Once a camera is there, I’m like, ‘Bang!’ but meeting people, yes, I’m awkward and I get really nervous.”

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August 5, 2011 – 9:21 am, by Luke BuckmasterThe first two episodes of ABC’s highly anticipated eight part adaptation of Christos Tsiolkas’s best-selling novel The Slap (film #53) were screened last night as part of the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival.The evening got off on a shaky start, with the program’s producer/director Tony Ayres taking the gong for, by far, the longest speech so far in the festival – an affectionate roll-out of thank-yous, reflections and ummas and aahs. But Ayres lost his momentum, began waffling and was eventually interrupted by one cranky punter who yelled out “we came here to see the film!” to which a large chunk of the audience applauded. Ayres responded “well I guess that’s all from me” and fast-footed to his seat. That. Was. Awkward.

Set to begin screening on Australian TV screens late September, The Slap examines how a bunch of lives are affected by an incident at a 40th birthday barbecue in which an adult man, Harry (Alex Dimitriades), slaps a misbehaving, unrelated little boy.

The first episode follows the now 40-year-old Hector (Jonathan LaPaglia) and takes three quarters of the running time get to the titular event. The moment is handled perfectly; it’s crucial that judgements associated with the event — right or wrong, justified or not — are entirely left to the viewer to determine.

The dramas and interpersonal relationships are engrossing from the get-go, the story like a David Williamson script that actually has bite, tension and doesn’t pander to racial or cultural stereotypes. The Slap presents a view of middle class multicultural Australia rarely seen in film and television.

An ultra buff Jonathan LaPaglia carries the first ep well as Hector, but is physically an awkward fit, resembling more a ‘roid popping body builder than a middle class Everyman. The manner with which director Jessica Hobbs begins the episode, photographing LaPaglia walking around either topless or robed in a shirt with buttons undone, the camera embracing the glowing regions of his taut upper body, gives the production an unfortunate whiff of sleaziness that takes considerable time to drift away.

The second episode follows Anouk (Essie Davis), a TV producer with a sick mother and a young celebrity boyfriend. Davis is also impressive and guides a substantial change of pace, with a slower and more personal focus. Watching the two episodes back to back provided a sharp, slightly disorientating change in dramatic tension and tempo, and observing how the rhythm of each episode will change according to the eight different characters and four different directors (Jessica Hobbs, Robert Connolly, Tony Ayres and Matthew Saville) will provide intriguing contrasts.

Matching the hype associated with The Slap is a solid ensemble of Australian talent, from the four aforementioned directors to a cast that includes LaPaglia, Davis, Anthony Hayes, Melissa George, Alex Dimitriades and Sophie Lowe. Going by the first two episodes, The Slapis likely to become a huge critical and popular success.

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