Kathy Troutt

Kathy Troutt (born 14 September 1947) is an English-born model, actress, deep sea diver and dolphin trainer who moved to Australia in 1948.

Kathy Troutt
Born (1947-09-14) 14 September 1947
Bath, Somerset, England
OccupationActress

Diving career

At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the Guinness Book of Records for the deepest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air to a depth of 320 feet (97.5 m) off Sydney Harbour with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds.[1] Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965.[2]

Modeling and acting career

Sports clothes and glamour model throughout the 1960s, she appeared on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (as herself) as a visiting marine biologist. Troutt appeared in the documentary Mermaids in Paradise, released to television and cinemas in 1965 by Ben Cropp.[3]

Dolphin training

She worked in pantomime London, England, where she trained dolphins for movies. She was spotted by a representative of director Mike Nichols, where she was to train a dolphin for the feature film The Day of the Dolphin.

Troutt was later hired for similar work for the feature film The Blue Lagoon, in which she also played the body double for Brooke Shields.[4]

This was followed by work as a crew member on Return to the Blue Lagoon and several other feature films later produced in Australia and Asia.[5]

References
  1. "Deep Dive" People magazine (Australia) by Alan Kershaw 17 November 1965
  2. Australian Skindivers magazine, December 1965 'Wreck of Catherine Adamston'.
  3. Harding, John, ed. (1971). "Interview with Kathy Troutt". Fathom. Sydney, NSW: Gareth Powell Associates. 1 (1): 30. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Blogger.com Fathom#1, Thursday May 5, 2016.
  4. Arnord, Gary (11 July 1980). "Depth Defying". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  5. Kathy Troutt with dolphin. Cover, Australian Women's Weekly, 19 September 1973


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.