Holly Valance

Holly Valance was born on 11 May 1983(42 years old) in Australia. Holly Valance is Pop Singer, Zodiac sign - Taurus. More detail about Holly Valance given below.

Holly Valance Timeline

• 1983
  

  Holly Valance was born on 11 May 1983, as Holly Rachel Vukadinoviu0107, in Fitzroy, Victoria to a Serbian father, Rajko Vukadinoviu0107, and a British mother, Rachel (nu00e9e Stephens), of English and Spanish extraction. Her father was a former pianist and model in his native Belgrade. Her mother, whose father was a relative of Benny Hill, was a model in her native United Kingdom. Valanceu0027s parents divorced in 1986 and she has a sister, Coco. Rajko later remarried, and Holly has a half-sister, Olympia, who has also acted in Neighbours (2014u20132018). In Melbourne Rajko ran a "trendy imported European clothes store". She started modelling as a teenager, when "she posed for supermarket catalogues and ad campaigns and by 14 she was earning $200 an hour modelling childrenu0027s clothes and teenage lingerie." Valance grew up in Melbourne and moved to the UK when she was 18; she holds both Australian and British citizenship. After two years she moved to Los Angeles, where she spent seven years before returning to the United Kingdom.

• 1999
  

  In 1999 at age 16, Valance was cast in the Australian TV soap opera, Neighbours, as Felicity "Flick" Scully. Soon after gaining the role she left her Catholic school, "where girls were given detention for wearing make-up or having a hem above the knee." She appeared in Human Natureu0027s music video for "He Donu0027t Love You" (November 2000), "in a raunchy shower scene." Valance left Neighbours in 2002 to start her music career.

• 2002
  

  Her first single, released in April 2002, was "Kiss Kiss", an English language cover version of Turkish singer, Tarkanu0027s "u015eu0131maru0131k". Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described it as "a catchy dance pop hit." It entered both the ARIA Singles and UK Singles Charts at No. 1. It charted in the top ten in seventeen countries, including reaching number one in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The music videou0027s directoru0027s cut appeared to show Valance dancing naked. She later explained that she was topless but wearing flesh-coloured underwear. The song was nominated for four ARIA Music Awards in 2002.Valanceu0027s second single, "Down Boy" (September), peaked at No. 2 in the UK and No. 3 in Australia. Her first album, Footprints, was released on 14 October 2002, which reached No. 9 in the UK and No. 15 in Australia. She co-wrote the album track, "The Harder They Come", with Rob Davis (ex-Mud), who supplied guitar for the album. The albumu0027s third and final single, "Naughty Girl" (December) peaked at No. 3 in Australia and No. 16 in the UK.

• 2003
  

  Valanceu0027s second album, State of Mind, appeared in November 2003 and its title track, was the lead single. It peaked at No. 8 in the UK and at No. 14 in Australia, but the album did not reach the top 50 in either market. Following legal problems and poor sales from State of Mind, Valance was reportedly dropped from her recording company. She denied this, "I asked to be released, but Warner refused, so I hung out for a year until the contract expired. We parted on good terms." Valance later confirmed she is no longer interested in recording music, telling Menu0027s Style magazine: "I do something until itu0027s not fun any more and then move on. Music wasnu0027t fun any more."In 2003, Valance fired her then-manager Scott Michaelson (who owns Biscayne Partners Pty Ltd) by telephone, 15 months before his contract was due to expire. Biscayne Partners sued Valance Corp., won the case and was awarded damages by the Supreme Court of New South Wales. During the trial, Valanceu0027s mother claimed Michaelson had been negligent as a manager, which forced her to take over from him. The former Neighbours co-star Kym Valentine also gave evidence that Valance "said she was feeling bad, a bit stressed out, because she was leaving Scott" and that "she said the solicitors for her record company would get her out of the contract and would be faxing him the paper work (from the UK) to do so." In court, Valance denied that she had said this to Valentine, even though she had signed an affidavit stating she had no recollection of the conversation.

• 2004
  

  In 2004, Valance returned to acting, this time in the United States, appearing in episodes of the television series CSI: Miami and Entourage. In 2005, she appeared in an episode of CSI: NY. In 2005 Valance returned to music, albeit briefly, when she appeared on Har Mar Superstaru0027s album The Handler singing on the tracks, "DUI", "Back the Camel Up" and "Body Request". She appeared in Prison Break in 2006 as Nika Volek, a role which she continued to portray in the showu0027s second season. Also in 2006, Valance appeared in the National Lampoon comedy Pledge This!, alongside American socialite Paris Hilton. The same year, she starred in DOA: Dead or Alive, an adaptation of the popular video game Dead or Alive, in which she played Christie. In 2007, she appeared in the TV series Shark and Moonlight. In 2008 she had a role in the film Taken alongside Liam Neeson, and appeared in an episode of The CW series Valentine.

• 2009
  

  In 2009, she appeared in Frankmusiku0027s video for his single "Confusion Girl". She also leaked a track called "Superstar" in 2009. In 2009 Valance played Brenda Snow for the video game Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising. She also appeared in Scott Caanu0027s film Mercy. Valance took part in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing, where she was paired with the professional winner of series 8, Artem Chigvintsev. Valance and Chigvintsev were eliminated in the semi-final of the competition on 11 December 2011, giving them a fourth-place finish. She also starred in the Miss Marple television episode called "The Pale Horse".After living in Los Angeles for seven years, Valance returned to England in 2009. That summer she had a brief relationship with electropop star Vince Frank (FrankMusik) after appearing in the video for his "Confusion Girl" single. On 29 September 2012, Valance married billionaire English property developer Nick Candy in Beverly Hills, California. In November 2013, Valance gave birth in London to their first child, a daughter, Luka Violet Toni Candy. In September 2017, they welcomed a second daughter, Nova Skye Coco Candy.

• 2011
  

  In addition to film and television roles, Valance has also appeared in adverts for Schwarzkopf hair care products and 1800 Reverse. In 2011, Valance appeared in an advert for Fosteru0027s Gold bottled beer. In 2015 Valance became an Ambassador for The Childrenu0027s Trust, the UKu0027s leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability.

• 2013
  

  In 2013 Valance was mentor and judge of fashion competition Shopaholic Showdown. In 2015 she starred in the action film Red Herring as Angela.