Pepita Emmerichs
Australian actress
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| Intro | Australian actress | |
| Places | Australia | |
| is | Actor Film actor Musician | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Music | |
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| Genres: | Folk music | |
| Birth | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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Biography
Pepita Emmerichs is an Australian musician and actress. She co-founded the music group Oh Pep! with Olivia Hally, and appeared in the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.
Life and career
Pepita "Pepi" Emmerichs was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. She attended the Victorian College of Arts Secondary School, where she began collaborating with fellow student Olivia Hally in 2009. Emmerichs and Hally later co-founded the band Oh Pep!, whose musical style Emmerichs has characterised as "folk/pop/country with bluegrass instrumentation".
Emmerichs also appeared in Spike Jonze's 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are, in which she played Claire, the protagonist's older sister.
Personal life
Emmerichs lived with her mother, father and younger sister Lucia Emmerichs, who is best known for her role as Ophelia Hicks on the TV series Tangle. She is friends with her Stony Point co-star Nikita Leigh-Pritchard; they have known each other since 2005 when they both guest-starred on Blue Heelers episode "Everything a girl could want".