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Post by SheWolf on Jun 17, 2006 11:35:02 GMT 1
Actor Emily Symons has buried her past as ditzy Summer Bay resident Marilyn Fisher, but wouldn't mind packing her bags and starring in American sitcom Will and Grace.
In the seven years since Symons left Home and Away, she has been busy playing Australian bartender Louise Appleton in high rating British soap Emmerdale.
Symons was this week in Sydney to promote the Yorkshire based series, which will premiere in Australia on UKTV in July.
She says good roles don't last forever and hopes her next gig is a comedy. She nearly came home after two years of unsuccessful auditions.
"It was incredibly hard to get work over there," Symons recalled.
"All the actors are working hard at selling themselves all the time and I wasn't used to that. I thought I would never make it."
Now with her own home, a swag of new friends, including Socceroos' star Harry Kewell's wife Sheree Murphy, and a new family in the Emmerdale cast, she feels at home.
"Sheree and I met on the show and even though she has left she is one of my best friends," Symons said.
"In the days of Home and Away I never had any idea of what life would be like beyond that.
"If you had have said 10 years ago I would be working in a British soap I would have said you were crazy."
©AAP 2006
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