Kathy Troutt
Kathy Troutt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 September 1947 |
| Occupation | Actress |
Kathy Troutt (born 14 September 1947) is an English-born model, actress, deep sea diver[clarification needed] and dolphin trainer who moved to Australia in 1948.[citation needed]
Diving career
At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the Guinness Book of Records for the deepest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air to a depth of 320 feet (97.5 m)[clarification needed] off Sydney Harbour with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds.[1] Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965.[2]
Modeling and acting career
Sports clothes and glamour model throughout the 1960s, she appeared on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (as herself) as a visiting marine biologist.[clarification needed] Troutt appeared in the documentary Mermaids in Paradise, released to television and cinemas in 1965 by Ben Cropp.[3]
Dolphin training
She worked in pantomime London, England, where she trained dolphins for movies. She was spotted by a representative of director Mike Nichols, where she was to train a dolphin for the feature film The Day of the Dolphin.[citation needed]
Troutt was later hired for similar work for the feature film The Blue Lagoon, in which she also played the body double for Brooke Shields.[4]
This was followed by work as a crew member on Return to the Blue Lagoon and several other feature films later produced in Australia and Asia.[5]
References
- ^ "Deep Dive" People magazine (Australia) by Alan Kershaw 17 November 1965
- ^ Australian Skindivers magazine, December 1965 'Wreck of Catherine Adamston'.
- ^ Harding, John, ed. (1971). "Interview with Kathy Troutt". Fathom. 1 (1). Sydney, NSW: Gareth Powell Associates: 30. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Blogger.com Fathom#1, Thursday May 5, 2016.
- ^ Arnord, Gary (11 July 1980). "Depth Defying". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
- ^ Kathy Troutt with dolphin. Cover, Australian Women's Weekly, 19 September 1973
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