H2O Actors Everywhere!

[WavyMermaidy]

I didn't know where else to put this, and I really just wanted to alert any interested persons on where to get good H2O-related male eye candy...so I figured I'd just start a thread.

I don't live in Australia, but since watching H2O a long while back when it was airing somewhat on US tv my hubby and I started watching all the Australian TV shows we could find (thank you Netflix and YouTube). It seems the world of Australian tv is a somewhat incestuous one as actors pop up again and again. We see H2O people all the time, which is awesome!

One of our faves is Dance Academy, which we started watching b/c of Cariba (Rikki) being in it. SUCH a great show, and if you haven't watched it I highly recommend it...one of several good shows we've watched.

The 3rd season isn't on Netflix yet, but we're watching it currently via YouTube...so there's this hot guy, and I'm like ergh that's another person that I know is from somewhere else we've seen. Sure enough, H2O. And it was Ryan, the park ranger from season/series 3 of H2O! And I never thought he was all that super cute in H2O, but damn he's fine in Dance Academy...check it out (about 19 minutes 15 seconds if you want to jump right to the eye candy...and yes, he's Irish dancing to She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain in Spanish).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeLsBiywbww

[MerEmma]

OMG! So neat! I knew Cariba was on there but that's so cool to see "Ryan" again, haha. Quite the eye candy now. :b It's pretty cool too how Claire and Phoebe have come to the US to film stuff too...Indiana has done a fair bit in Australia too. Now if only Angus would branch out some more. xD

[deepblue]

Not about the males, but a couple of the stars of the original H2O...

Claire Holt and Phoebe Tonkin are both on The Orignals, a spin off of Vampire Diaries- and while I like V Diaries, I find the Originals to be so very good, in a more mature way than Vampire Diaries. It's what happens when V Diaries grew up. :)

Claire plays Rebekah, one of the family of original vampires. Phoebe plays Hayley, a werewolf who's been impregnated by Klaus, an Original who's a werewolf-vampire hybrid (in a way that the show actually makes sense of! lol).

Claire uses a Brit accent throughout, and Phoebe is supposed to be from the Appalachian area, and her 'American' accent is ... well it's getting better.


http://youtu.be/Nz-AZ42pxEk

[MermanJesse]

Love Vampire Diaries and was just floored when Claire showed up!

Then Phoebe!

[Trident True]

Phoebe Tonkin also played in the Secret Circle as faye chamberlain. she is more the rebel.bad ass witch. it was a good series, thats if your into witches :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgsErVJXCwA

[WavyMermaidy]

MerEmma - Yeah, I totally agree about Angus. I believe he left H2O to concentrate on the Aussie show "Packed to the Rafters" but I haven't gotten to watch that show. Hope he ends up doing something else as well!


and Phoebe is supposed to be from the Appalachian area, and her 'American' accent is ... well it's getting better.

LOL...yeah, I watched her in Secret Circle and it was hard not to notice the Aussie peeking through her dialogue there as well. I knew Claire and then Phoebe were on Vampire Diaries, then that Claire was on the Originals but I didn't know Phoebe was. Good for them!

Doesn't seem like Cariba has done a whole lot role-wise except for being in season 3 of Dance Academy here and there. Speaking of which, also forgot to mention that Burgess Abernethy (Zane) was in an early episode in season 1 of Dance Academy, lol.

Also, Cariba was in another great Aussie series called Blue Water High, and the same season she was on (3) also featured Craig Horner, the guy who played Ash.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRhGCmy9TC0

Aaaaand as I was looking for a video of him in Blue Water High, also found he is in a show called Legend of the Seeker (looking yummy I must say), and then found out one of the other stars of that show is the guy that plays the caretaker Leonard in Aquamarine! Here's a scene with both of them:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obFra_sd9S0&list=PL4AECD2285096D26D

[MerEmma]

Yeah, I actually started at season 1 of Blue Water High but never really got into it. Might have to skip forward to the third, haha. :b

[MerEmma]

I actually saw an episode of TSC the other day...I think Phoebe would have a pretty convincing American accent if I could actually get over her voice. It is SO weird to hear a voice go from Australian to American. I didn't keep up with the show at all, totally confused and mostly just spent the whole episode listening to her voice. :P

[lollikit]

AAhhh I love Legend of the Seeker I have watched series 1 & 2.

[-Annwyn-]

I don't live in Australia, but since watching H2O a long while back when it was airing somewhat on US tv my hubby and I started watching all the Australian TV shows we could find (thank you Netflix and YouTube).



My favourite Australian kids TV show were ones that played during the 90's.
This is Spellbinder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3de2q3eMuEE

The Girl From Tomorrow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4waQKy64b8U&feature=share&list=PLoxVSYhSMRL_F6h_6dl6ZQyKKwl83_hpj

And a really popular one was called "Round the Twist". A TV series based off the quirky short stories by author Paul Jennings. (This particular episode is about a merman!)

http://youtu.be/9TSHnBk1u58

[lynsea]

Claire has left The Originals. Her part was only supposed to be temporary so we're lucky she stuck it out as long as she did.

[Echidna]

The Girl from Tomorrow, and especially the sequel, Tomorrow's End, were easily some of the BEST things I've ever watched!
That, and Ocean Girl.
Awesome Aussie stuff.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

The Girl from Tomorrow, and especially the sequel, Tomorrow's End, were easily some of the BEST things I've ever watched!
That, and Ocean Girl.
Awesome Aussie stuff.

Aahh! Ocean Girl, she was my first mermaid. Technically not a fishy mermaid but she swam like one.

I used to rush home from school each day, I think I was in Year 11 (senior year of high school) then, turn on the tv, got my snacks ready and watched the show.

I didn't care much for the storyline, I just liked watching her way of swimming. No youtube in those days, and even the people in the school swim team didn't swim like her, so no one to ask to teach me how, until now.

Back on topic, these H2O actors and actress all had their start from those old children's programs. We seem to have a small pool of teen actors and actresses even though we're a big country. Most of the shows we currently have here (Aussie kids tv shows), have the same people in it.

Or kids who've grown up through various programs and then you see them in another show as an adult.

[Mizuko]

I'm not ashamed to admit as I kid I wanted to grow up to be Ocean Girl XD haha!

edit: for anyone interested, here's a clip ;) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmUqkl1U14E

[Mermaid Jessica Pearl]

I looooovvved ocean girl. Terribly underrated. I wanted to be her so bad!

[Seraphina Suds]

Jumping on the Ocean Girl track here; I'm so glad other people have seen/liked that show! I thought I was the only one who had seen it. No one outside of the internet seems to have caught it when it was airing. I rewatched the whole series last year. It was on Netflix, I think. Or maybe Amazon Prime... one of those video services.

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[MermanOliver]

Well, concerning Ocean Girl, I kind of grew up with it. I watched when it aired here in Germany (the dubbed version). Spellbinder and the Girl from Tomorrow, too.... In fact, a lot of the children series here in Germany seem to be Austrailan series. Looking back, nearly all of my favorite child-day shows came from Down Under ;)

And by the way, funny that you mentioned Ocean Girl, the those-days child actor Jeffrey Walker (the younger of the two brothers in Ocean Girl) is the director of at least half of the H2O episodes (season 1 and 2, not sure about 3).

[Seraphina Suds]

Oh wow! How funny xD

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[WavyMermaidy]

You know, I somehow missed Ocean Girl when I was younger but I did catch it on Netflix a couple of years ago...love it!



And by the way, funny that you mentioned Ocean Girl, the those-days child actor Jeffrey Walker (the younger of the two brothers in Ocean Girl) is the director of at least half of the H2O episodes (season 1 and 2, not sure about 3).

Yeah I thought that was pretty cool...and he did indeed work also on season 3 :)

[Azurin Luna]

I watched ocean girl too :D it made me realize that the way I swam underwater wasn't as strange as they said, it felt more natural to me. I watched spellbinder too and some series about a lighthouse that always had silly stuff happen, like superpowered swimshorts that made you swim ultra fast, can remember the name. And children of the watchdog star, very short, but I liked it.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

I watched ocean girl too :D it made me realize that the way I swam underwater wasn't as strange as they said, it felt more natural to me. I watched spellbinder too and some series about a lighthouse that always had silly stuff happen, like superpowered swimshorts that made you swim ultra fast, can remember the name. And children of the watchdog star, very short, but I liked it.

That lighthouse one was called, Round the Twist.