More on Sophie Heathcote

Sounds like the aneurism was probably a blessing. The added sadness is that her kids aren't going to remember her :(

AUSTRALIA'S television community paid tribute to actor Sophie Heathcote yesterday as her husband prepared to return to Australia with her body and their two young children.

The 33-year-old, who starred in Grass Roots, Water Rats and A Country Practice, died suddenly from an aneurism at her Connecticut home on Thursday.

She had also been suffering from skin and pancreatic cancer.

Actor Georgie Parker, who worked with Heathcote - then 18 - on A Country Practice 15 years ago, described her death as "a bloody tragedy".

Peter Mochrie, who starred opposite Heathcote on Channel Nine's Water Rats, was shocked by the news.

He described Heathcote's passing as a terrible loss to the industry. "She was inspirational, she was fresh, she was talented," said Mochrie, who studied at NIDA a few years ahead of Heathcote.

"We worked for a year on Water Rats and she had a great young energy that was vibrant, alive, challenging and exciting."

Writer Geoffrey Atherden, who penned Mother And Son and Grass Roots, in which Heathcote played scheming councillor Biddy Marchant, also fondly recalled Heathcote's energy.

"She was incredibly energetic, very focused and great company," he said.

While working on the series, for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute award, Heathcote also created her own skincare range, Ki, which she sold to a French company in 2002.

"When she made the choice to go into business, it was a choice," Atherden said. "It wasn't because acting work had dried up for her. She was the type of person who would always be able to find acting work if she wanted it."

Grass Roots turned out to be her final television series with Heathcote leaving the show to focus on her business and raising her children, Madeline, 3, and a son, born in 2004.

They moved to the US last year after her husband Chris Clarke's advertising agency opened a New York office.

Source: The Sun-Herald

More on Sophie Heathcote

Sounds like the aneurism was probably a blessing. The added sadness is that her kids aren't going to remember her :(

AUSTRALIA'S television community paid tribute to actor Sophie Heathcote yesterday as her husband prepared to return to Australia with her body and their two young children.

The 33-year-old, who starred in Grass Roots, Water Rats and A Country Practice, died suddenly from an aneurism at her Connecticut home on Thursday.

She had also been suffering from skin and pancreatic cancer.

Actor Georgie Parker, who worked with Heathcote - then 18 - on A Country Practice 15 years ago, described her death as "a bloody tragedy".

Peter Mochrie, who starred opposite Heathcote on Channel Nine's Water Rats, was shocked by the news.

He described Heathcote's passing as a terrible loss to the industry. "She was inspirational, she was fresh, she was talented," said Mochrie, who studied at NIDA a few years ahead of Heathcote.

"We worked for a year on Water Rats and she had a great young energy that was vibrant, alive, challenging and exciting."

Writer Geoffrey Atherden, who penned Mother And Son and Grass Roots, in which Heathcote played scheming councillor Biddy Marchant, also fondly recalled Heathcote's energy.

"She was incredibly energetic, very focused and great company," he said.

While working on the series, for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute award, Heathcote also created her own skincare range, Ki, which she sold to a French company in 2002.

"When she made the choice to go into business, it was a choice," Atherden said. "It wasn't because acting work had dried up for her. She was the type of person who would always be able to find acting work if she wanted it."

Grass Roots turned out to be her final television series with Heathcote leaving the show to focus on her business and raising her children, Madeline, 3, and a son, born in 2004.

They moved to the US last year after her husband Chris Clarke's advertising agency opened a New York office.

Source: The Sun-Herald