Roxane Wilson

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Roxane Wilson is an 80s model and actress.

Born: 1965; Durban, South Africa

Height: 1.77

Hair: Blonde

Eyes: Green

In 1981 she signed with the Chadwick Models agency in Sydney. She also joined the Rocks Players drama school, paying for her studies with earnings from modelling. In 1983 she relocated to New York for three years, where she signed with Wilhelmina Models and travelled the world modelling. During her time in New York she studied acting at HB Studio and the Meisner technique with Robert Modica.

On her return to Australia in 1990, she began her career as a professional actress, playing the lead female role in the television series Family and Friends. In 1991 she relocated to Perth and furthered her craft by studying acting at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She graduated in 1993 with a Diploma of Performing Arts, before returning to Sydney, where she worked extensively in film, television and theatre.

She had leading stage roles in Noel Coward's Private Lives, Practical Mamet, Edward Albee’s Finding the Sun and Freak Winds. She also had significant roles in the television series Water Rats, The Alice, and the film Punishment. She had a guest role Home and Away, and appeared in the films Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997) alongside Miranda Otto, Paperback Hero (1999) with Hugh Jackman and independent film Black & White & Sex (2011).

In 2001 Roxane married fellow actor Grant Bowler. They relocated to Los Angeles not long afterwards, to further their respective acting careers. She became pregnant with their first child and subsequently focused on being a full time mother to daughter Edie. During a return to Sydney in 2005, their son Ezekiel was born. She and Bowler divorced in 2011, and Wilson returned to Los Angeles with her children in 2012, where she now lives.