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Holly Rachel Vukadinović (born 11
May 1983), who is better known by her stage name of
Holly Valance, is a New Zealand-born actress and ARIA
nominated singer.
Early life: Valance was born Auckland, New
Zealand to a Serbian father and a British mother. She is
related to the late British comedian Benny Hill —
Hill's cousin was her grandfather (cousins twice
removed). Holly was educated at the Star of the Sea
College, a Roman Catholic high school located in
Melbourne.
Music career: Holly's first single as a recording
artist was Kiss Kiss, released in 2002. Kiss Kiss is her
version of the original song Şımarık by
Turkish superstar Tarkan. The video for Kiss Kiss was
notable in that Valance appeared to be dancing naked. In
fact, she was dancing whilst wearing flesh colored
underwear; the footage was then digitally retouched
adding strategically placed lighting effects. Her début
album Footprints was released on October 14, 2002.
Kiss Kiss debuted at #1 in both the Australia ARIA
charts and UK Singles Charts in (April-May 2002). Kiss
Kiss scored Holly 4 ARIA nominations. Her next single,
Down Boy peaked at #2 in the UK and at #3 in Australia,
while her album Footprints debuted and peaked at #9 in
the UK and at #15 in Australia. Her third single Naughty
Girl peaked at #3 in Australia and at #16 in the UK. The
first single State of Mind from her next album of the
same name debuted and peaked at #8 in the UK and at #14
in Australia, but the album didn't get into the top 50
of either country.
Desire was, according to some rumours, to be the 2nd
official single coming out of Holly's second album and
she even made a few performances for the promotion but
it would get cancelled due to poor album sales.
Following legal problems with her manager/boyfriend, and
poor sales from the album "State of Mind,"
Valance was dropped from her recording company.
She signed a £3 million deal with the hair products
company Schwarzkopf Live to front the new line aimed at
an early teen to early 20s market. Valance was seen
modelling Cosmic Blue, Sahara True Blonde, Hypnotic Red
as well as XXL dresses and XXL hats (each colour has a
strapline which referenced other popular culture
artists). The adverts could be seen across the United
Kingdom at bus stops, shopping malls, on buses and in
magazines.
During this time, Valance appeared on Har Mar
Superstar's album "The Handler" singing on
tracks "Body Request" and "Back the Camel
up".
In 2002, she won the British GQ Award for "Woman of
the Year
Film and television career: From 1999 to 2002
Holly played the role of Felicity "Flick"
Scully on Australian soap Neighbours.
In 2004 Valance returned to acting, this time in the
United States, appearing in episodes of the television
series CSI: Miami and Entourage, and in 2005 she
appeared in an episode of CSI: NY. She then
guest-starred in Prison Break in 2006 as Nika Volek, a
role which she continued to portray in the show's second
season. She also had a small role in an episode in the
second season of US TV show Entourage.
She appeared in the National Lampoon comedy Pledge
This!, alongside popular American socialite Paris
Hilton, and DOA: Dead or Alive, an adaptation of the
popular video game Dead or Alive, where she played
Christie.
She'll be working on the new Luc Besson feature called
“Taken” starring Liam Neeson in Paris in March and
an Australian drama later on in the year within
Australia.
Valance is also set to play a Bosnian Muslim in a new
movie titled 'The Tourist', a true story set in the
Balkan war. She also served as the promotional face of
Australian collect call company 1800-Reverse and the UK
equivalent.
Recent rumours reported she was offered a role on the
popular US TV show Ugly Betty and an appearance in a
future Justin Timberlake music video.
Legal action: In 2003 she fired her then-manager
Scott Michaelson (who owns Biscayne Partners Pty Ltd) by
fax, 15 months before her contract was due to expire.
Biscayne Partners Pty. Ltd. sued Valance Corp., won
their case and were awarded damages by the Supreme Court
of New South Wales.
During the trial Valance's mother, Rachel Stevens,
claimed that Michaelson was negligent in his duties as a
manager, which forced her to take over from his role as
manager. Former Neighbours co-star Kym Valentine also
gave evidence that Valance "said she was feeling
bad, a bit stressed out, because she was leaving
Scott" and that "she said the solicitors for
her record company would get her out of the contract and
would be faxing him the paper work (from the UK) to do
so." Valance denied that she told Valentine this
conversation in court, even though she had signed an
affidavit where she stated she had no recollection of
the conversation.
Justice Clifford Einstein said, "I have given close
consideration to the question of whether or not the
circumstances presently before the Court which do, it
seems to me, show a calculated disregard of the rights
of Biscayne as well as a cynical pursuit of
benefit".
The court subsequently ordered Valance
Corp. pay $350,000 to Biscayne Partners Pty. Ltd. Of
this amount, $47,264.56 was "from shares Ms Valance
and Mr Michaelson had bought together on the London
Stock Exchange", though the court did not award in
favour of Biscayne getting a percentage of sales of her
album, State of Mind. |
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