Tasma Walton

Tasma Walton Biography

Tasma Walton (born 19 August 1973 in Geraldton, Western Australia) is an Australian television and film actress.

Acting career

Walton joined local radio station 6GE and trained as a production assistant and copy writer in her home town. She was accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) but dropped out after two years. She joined a small Sydney theatre, and in 1995 played the recurring role of Rachel Watson in Home and Away.

In 1996, Walton was cast as Dash McKinley in the police drama series Blue Heelers. Her character was introduced halfway through Season 3. To win the role of Dash, Walton auditioned three times. Her second one with William McInnes (Nick Schultz) gained her the role. In the audition Schultz yelled at Dash and while some of the other actresses burst into tears, Walton reacted by laughing. In the same year she made her film debut in Fistful of Flies. Her last episode of Blue Heelers, "The Full Circle" screened in mid-1999. Walton stated that she was leaving the series to pursue other acting projects and to be with her then boyfriend in Sydney.

She has since appeared in a variety of film and TV productions, including Water Rats, Sea Patrol, The Postcard Bandit and Perdition. She also won recurring roles in White Collar Blue and BeastMaster.

In 2009, Walton joined the cast of City Homicide in the semi-regular role of criminal profiler, Claudia Leigh. On 27 July 2013, it was announced that Walton had rejoined the cast of Home and Away in the guest role of Jade Montgomery.

Personal life

Walton was in a relationship with Danny Roberts for seven and a half years until 2004. She began dating Rove McManus in October 2007. They married in a private ceremony in Broome, Western Australia on 16 June 2009. In September 2013, Walton and McManus announced that they are expecting their first child, due in early 2014.

Filmography

Film and Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Home and Away	Rachel Watson	7 episodes
1995	Echo Point	Gina	TV series
1995" 1999	Blue Heelers	Const. Deidre E. 'Dash' McKinley	130 episodes
1996	Fistful of Flies	Maria Lupi
1998	Cody: The Wrong Stuff		TV movie
1999	Airtight	Virg	TV movie
2000	Virtual Nightmare	Wendy	TV movie
2000	Water Rats	Belinda Harvey	Episode: "Able to Leap Tall Buildings"
2000	BeastMaster	Caro	Episode: "The Burning Forest" Episode: "Xinca" Episode: "Ghosts of the Forest"
2001	'	Leah	Episode: "The Garden of Gethsemane" Episode: "Secrets and Lies" Episode: "Better the Devil You Know"
2002	BeastMaster	Caro	Episode: "The Hunter"
2003	Subterano	Stone
2003	'	Frankie	TV movie
2003	White Collar Blue	Gemma Mancuzzo	Episode: "2.10" Episode: "2.11"
2004	Roll	Emma
2004	McLeod's Daughters	Tracy Morrison	Episode: "Show of Love"
2005	Safety in Numbers	Caroline
2005	Perdition	Jo
2005	Little Oberon	Georgie Green	TV movie
2006	BlackJack: At the Gates	Sylvia	TV movie
2006	Stupid Stupid Man	Janine Russell	Episode: "A Very, Very Private Function"
2009	Together Alone	Trish
2009	Sea Patrol	Jila	Episode: "Secret Cargo"
2009	Blessed	Gail
2009	Dreamland	April Freeman
2009	City Homicide	Claudia Leigh	13 episodes
2013	Home and Away	Jade Montgomery

Books

Heartless (Fiction) (Pub Date 28/9/09)

Theatre

New Theatre (Sydney)

Awards

At the 39th Annual TV Week Logie Awards held in 1997, Walton won the Logie for the "Most Popular New Talent" for her role as "Constable Dash McKinley" on Blue Heelers.

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