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BIOGRAPHY

Holly Valance
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Holly Rachel Vukadinovic, born 11 May 1983, who is better known by her stage name of Holly Valance, is an Australian-born actress and ARIA nominated singer.

Valance was born in Melbourne, Australia to a Serbian father and a British mother. She is related to the late British comedian Benny Hill — Hill's cousin was her grandfather (cousins twice removed). Holly was educated at the Star of the Sea College, a Roman Catholic high school located in Melbourne.

Valance's first single as a recording artist was Kiss Kiss, released in 2002. Kiss Kiss is her version of the original song Simarik by Turkish superstar Tarkan. The video for Kiss Kiss was notable in that Valance appeared to be dancing naked. In fact, she was dancing whilst wearing flesh colored underwear; the footage was then digitally retouched adding strategically placed lighting effects. Her début album Footprints was released on October 14, 2002.

Kiss Kiss debuted at #1 in both the Australia ARIA charts and UK Singles Charts in (April-May 2002). Kiss Kiss scored Valance 4 ARIA nominations. Her next single, Down Boy peaked at #2 in the UK and at #3 in Australia, while her album Footprints debuted and peaked at #9 in the UK and at #15 in Australia. Her third single Naughty Girl peaked at #3 in Australia and at #16 in the UK. The first single State of Mind from her next album of the same name debuted and peaked at #8 in the UK and at #14 in Australia, but the album didn't get into the top 50 of either country.

Desire was, according to some rumors, to be the 2nd official single coming out of Valance's third album and she even made a few performances for the promotion but it would get cancelled due to poor album sales. Although "Somebody Out There," "Ricochets," "Desire" and "Everything I Hate" were all scheduled to be released as singles, with "Please Please Please Me" to be the lead-off single for a third album; following legal problems with her manager/boyfriend, and poor sales from the album "State of Mind," Valance was dropped from her recording company.

Valance signed a £3 million deal with the hair products company Schwarzkopf Live to front the new line aimed at an early teen to early 20s market. Valance was seen modeling Cosmic Blue, Sahara True Blonde, Hypnotic Red as well as XXL dresses and XXL hats (each colour has a strapline which referenced other popular culture artists). The adverts could be seen across the United Kingdom at bus stops, shopping malls, on buses and in magazines.

During this time, Valance appeared on Har Mar Superstar's album "The Handler" singing on tracks "Body Request" and "Back the Camel up".

There have been several rumors since Valance's latest musical release that she was preparing and working on a third album, most of which ended up being false.

From 1999 to 2002 Valance played the role of Felicity "Flick" Scully on Australian soap Neighbours.

In 2004 Valance returned to acting, this time in the United States, appearing in episodes of the television series CSI: Miami and Entourage, and in 2005 she appeared in an episode of CSI: NY. She then guest-starred in Prison Break in 2006 as Nika Volek, a role which she continued to portray in the show's second season. She also had a small role in an episode in the second season of US TV show Entourage.

Valance appeared in the National Lampoon comedy Pledge This!, alongside popular American socialite Paris Hilton, and DOA: Dead or Alive, an adaptation of the popular video game Dead or Alive, where she played Christie.

Valance is also set to play a Bosnian Muslim in a new movie titled 'The Tourist', a true story set in the Balkan war.

Valance also served as the promotional face of Australian collect call company 1800-Reverse and the UK equivalent.