Jacinda Barrett Biography

Fast Facts

• In 1997, People Magazine named her "One of the Most Beautiful People in the World․"
• Studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England
• Married actor-producer Gabriel Macht on Dec․ 29th, 2004, having one child
• As a teen, won Australia's annual Dolly Covergirl contest in 1988 and began modeling throughout Europe, leading to her TV debut on MTV's "The Real World: London" in 1995 before studying the performing arts and making her film debut in "Campfire Tales" (1997)
• Quote: "I've never watched the box office of things until recently when I realized how much money it makes also has a massive bearing on the actors because no matter how great your movie is if it doesn't make a lot of money it doesn't help you in the long run․ But I try not to get into all that stuff because it's really zero I can do about it․"
• Quote: "(In 2006) "The weird thing is that this is not a business where you can predict what's gonna happen and say well I've reached this level, this is what's gonna happen next․ I mean you may never work again or people may respond to your work and you might be set for the rest of your life, so it's such a business of extremes that it's really hard for me to take stock of where I'm at, at this point․""
• Actress whose work includes 2006 films "Poseidon," "The Last Kiss" and "School for Scoundrels" and "Ladder 49" (2004), along with TV's "Zero Hour," "Citizen Baines" and "D․C․"