Esther Anderson (Australian actress)

Anderson was born on 13 June 1979 and she grew up in Geelong.[1] Anderson is a model and she lived in Japan for six years, travelling between the country and Europe for work.[2] She appeared in a number of television commercials in Japan, which led her to move to Melbourne to take acting courses, as she wanted to begin acting and presenting.[2]

In 2007, Anderson landed a presenting role on the Victorian version of Australian travel show Postcards.[2] A year later, she secured an audition for television soap opera Home and Away and was cast as police constable Charlie Buckton.[3] Producers introduced a lesbian plot for Charlie and Kate Bell's character Joey Collins to boost the shows ratings.[4] It was Anderson's first big storyline and she was required to work more hours.[5] The storyline was criticised by religious and conservative family groups,[4] and Channel Seven later cut a kiss between the characters.[6] Anderson earned four Logie Award nominations for her work on Home and Away, including two Gold Logie Awards.[7][8] She quit Home and Away in 2011 and filmed her final scenes in August that year.[9] She moved to Los Angeles for work in 2012.[10]

Anderson stars in short film Breathless as Jodie, a woman in mourning over her deceased child.[2][11] In August 2012, it was announced Anderson had landed a role in the NBC television drama Siberia, which was filmed in Canada.[12] The series masquerades as a reality show, with the actors using their own names as they play a group of contestants who compete for a cash prize in the Siberian wilderness.[2] Anderson reprised her role as Charlie Buckton in 2013 for "a handful of episodes".[13]

In 2014, Anderson was cast in her first feature film Broken Contract by writer-director James Pentecost. She stars opposite Christopher Morris as Detective Keeling, an internal affairs cop. Broken Contract was filmed in Perth, Australia.[2] The following year, Anderson was a contestant on the fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia.[14] Anderson made a guest appearance in Netflix series GLOW, and appears in 2019 films Apple Seed and Madness in the Method.[10] In 2021, she appeared in the Channel 9 series Amazing Grace.[15]

Anderson made a guest appearance as Dr Sian Caton on the Australian television soap opera Neighbours in June 2022.[16]

Anderson was in a relationship with fellow Home and Away actor Conrad Coleby from 2008 until 2010,[17] and with footballer Joel Selwood in 2012.[18] She began dating advertising executive Howard Moggs in December 2014. They got engaged in February 2016,[19] and married in Geelong in February 2017.[20] In April 2018, Anderson announced she was expecting the couple's first child,[21] and she gave birth to their son in August.[22] In April 2022, Anderson confirmed she and Moggs were expecting their second child,[23] and she gave birth to their second son on 28 September 2022.[24]

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