Rhiana Griffith

Rhiana Jade Griffith was born in the Hunter Region of New South Wales Australia She began modelling as a child doing runway work and catalogue ads and progressed from there to television commercials From there she got her first gueststarring role on the Australian medical drama Childrens Hospital and won her first film role as Mercia in the 1998 film 15 Amore Shortly thereafter she won ModelQuest98s Grand Final for the 12to15 division and was cast as Jack in the science fiction film Pitch Black 2004 also saw Griffith embark upon her art career in earnest with two major solo gallery showings Her first Chrysalis was held at the Tighes Hill Gallery in Newcastle Australia in January 2004 Her second A Month in Kaos was held at the Surry Hills Cafe 249 art gallery in Sydney Australia in May 2004 Griffith also acted in another short film A Whole New You and gueststarred in an episode of the hit Australian medical drama All Saints As the year came to a close Griffith portrayed Barbarella in print and television ads promoting the Flickerfest film festival In 2005 Griffith held her third art exhibition a collaboration with her brother poet Damien Griffith called Sibling Revelry In conjunction with the art show they released a limitededition book of their work pairing her paintings with his poems Griffith also contributed to a Wearable Art Festival and will launch a line of clothing later in 2005 She is working on her second book a childrens book for release in late 2005 and portrayed the starring role of Clare Newell in a short film Wrong Answer which will be continued in the psychological thriller called Volunteer to be directed by JD Cohen Description above from the Wikipedia article Rhiana Griffith licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia