Zoe Ventoura is an Australian actress. She played Melissa Rafter in ''

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'' from 2008 to 2010. The character's death earned Ventoura a nomination for the

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in 2011. That same year, Ventoura starred alongside actor

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, whom she later married, in ''

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''. Other roles include Miki Mavros in the television comedy series ''

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'' and Sonya Hyde in '' Hyde and Seek''. Ventoura joined the recurring cast of ''

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'' as

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in 2019.

Early and personal life

Ventoura attended Penrhos College in

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. In December 2014, Ventoura became engaged to longtime partner and ''Wild Boys'' co-star

, and they married in Noosa in November 2015. The couple have one child, a son born in December 2019. A year later, Ventoura announced that the pair had separated.

Career

Ventoura portrayed Melissa Rafter (née Bannon) in ''

''. Her shock on-screen death was the highest rating episode of the hugely popular series, and gained her a nomination for the

in 2011. That same year, Ventoura starred alongside actor Daniel MacPherson in the Seven Network colonial drama ''

''. Ventoura is also known for starring as Miki Mavros in the SBS television comedy series ''

'', for which she earned two Logie nominations. She has also had a number of roles in the theatre, film and other television series such as '' Last Man Standing'', US feature films ''Drive Hard'', ''

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'' and the horror movie '' See No Evil''. She appeared in Disney's '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales'', and '' The Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One'' by director Shane Abbess. In 2016, Ventoura starred opposite Matt Nable as Sonya Hyde in the Australian thriller, '' Hyde and Seek'' for Channel 9. Ventoura joined the cast of television soap opera ''

'' as

in April 2019 during the show's thirty-second season. She made her first on-screen appearance on 22 August 2019. In September 2020, it was announced that Ventoura had joined the cast of

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drama series '' Doctor Doctor'' for its fifth season, which aired in 2021.

Filmography

Television

Film

References

External links

* 1981 births Living people Australian film actresses Australian television actresses Actresses from Perth, Western Australia Australian people of Greek descent 20th-century Australian actresses 21st-century Australian actresses {{Australia-screen-actor-stub