Nickname: Tez & Tezza
Date Of Birth: February 26th 1986
Place Of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia
Education: Mercedes College, Adelaide
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5′ 4½″ (1.64 m)
Parents: Paula Sanders & Kevin Palmer
Spouse: Mark Webber (December 21st, 2013 in Mexico)
Children: Bodhi Rain Palmer (February 17th, 2014), Forest Sage Palmer (December 12th, 2016), Poet Lake Palmer (April 12th, 2019) & Prairie Moon Palmer (August 17th, 2021)
Christian Bale mistook her for a real-life stripper on the set of Knight of Cups (2015). During filming director Terrence Malick would spontaneously pair Bale with all kinds of people, from actual actors to random people on the street. Palmer played a stripper in the film and she and Bale first met at the strip club where filming took place. Palmer spontaneously told him a convincing back story for her character. He ale didn’t realize she was an actress, and not a professional stripper, until he recognized her face on a movie billboard a week after he filmed the scene with her.
Has stated that she had a tough upbringing due to her mother suffering from bipolar disorder.
When she first auditioned for Bedtime Stories (2008), she was told she wasn’t “Paris Hilton” enough to play the role, but Adam Sandler felt she was right for the role.
She exercised for three months–four hours a day, six days a week–prior to filming I Am Number Four (2011). It included training for sword work, flips, sword fighting and wire work. She also learned to ride a Ducati motorcycle.
Was discovered on the street and cast in 2:37 (2006) without an audition and without ever having acted before.
Her father is a passionate collector of model trains. Because of this, the biggest train-set in Australia was located in her childhood home.
One of her life goals is to own her own organic farm.
Mother, with husband Mark Webber, of sons Bodhi Rain Palmer (b. February 17, 2014) and Forest Sage Palmer (b. December 12, 2016), and daughters Poet Lake Palmer (b. April 12, 2019) and Prairie Moon Palmer (b. August 17, 2021).
Keeps her native accent in I Am Number Four (2011) to emphasize the global scope of the movie.
Has a fear of being in the ocean. She had to overcome it while filming an underwater scene for Point Break (2015) that required her to stay below the surface for hours.
Had pet kangaroos back home in Australia. Her father raised kangaroos. The names of her three kangaroos were Charlie, Radar and Tippi.
Worked on Hacksaw Ridge (2016) and Berlin Syndrome (2017) at the same time in Melbourne.
Was considered for roles in two superhero films; Emma Stone’s role as Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), and Emily VanCamp’s part as Kate in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).
Her religious mother named her after Mother Teresa, the Albanian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.
(December 21, 2013) Married her boyfriend of 15 months Mark Webber in Mexico, following a 4-month-long engagement.
She and her husband got engaged on the set of The Ever After (2014), in which they played a conflicted married couple.
Her mom made a cameo appearance in Bedtime Stories (2008), by Adam Sandler’s request.
Her first post-pregnancy part was the physically demanding role in Point Break (2015), filmed in ten countries across four continents.
Between December of 2015 and September of 2016 she had ten films set to be released in the US, two of which–The Choice (2016) and Triple 9 (2016)–opened in the same month.
She was set to appear in “Skum Rocks!” a rock musical starring Kevin Bacon and Matthew Broderick, but the film was shelved. It would have marked her first time starring in a musical.
Provided the first on-screen kiss for Daniel Radcliffe when they co-starred in December Boys (2007). It was the last scene filmed on the production, which wrapped at 4:00 am on Christmas Eve.
Has three credits on The Ever After (2014)–star, screenwriter/producer (her debut in those capacities).
Lived in public housing with her mother and on her father’s farm throughout her childhood.
Was pregnant while filming Kill Me Three Times (2014). However, her character was not meant to be expecting, so the camera and her wardrobe had to be installed to cover the bump.
Auditioned for the role of Dr. Carol Marcus in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), which went to Alice Eve.
In 2015 she was named Patron of the Kid’s Film Festival of Adelaide, the city in which she was raised. The event is primarily aimed at filmmakers 18 years and under, with submissions of films under ten minutes accepted.
Received her first award, “The Rising Star Award”, at the 2015 Maui Film Festival.
Her favorite movie is A Little Princess (1995).
Was originally cast in Jumper (2008) but the director and producers later decided they wanted to cast a famous actress in the part and the role was given to Rachel Bilson.
She was considered for the role of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). The role eventually went to Emma Stone.
Her first acting job was dressing up as Strawberry Shortcake and Santa’s Little Helper on weekends for promotions in shopping centers near Adelaide.
Campaigned for a part in The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Her stepson is a classmate of Casey Affleck’s child. He and Palmer co-starred in Triple 9 (2016) and knew each other well before they worked together.
Used to work at Cotton On retail store.
Was considered for the part of “O” in Savages (2012) that was eventually played by Blake Lively.
She is the only child of her parents’ marriage although she has two half-sisters and two stepbrothers from her father’s second marriage.
Is often confused with Kristen Stewart.
She was cast as “Talia Al Ghul” in George Miller’s “Justice League: Mortal” film in 2007, but it was canceled. She campaigned for the same role in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and has expressed a wish to play the part opposite Ben Affleck in the DC Extended Universe.
Two of her films went through excessive post-production. Take Me Home Tonight (2011) began filming in 2007 but was eventually released four years later. She began filming Knight of Cups (2015) in 2012, but it was withheld from US release until 2016.
Hosted the premiere of The Ever After (2014) in her hometown of Adelaide, Australia.
Has a stepson, Isaac Love Shaw (b. 2008).
She has twice missed out on working with fellow Australian George Miller. First she was cast in his doomed “Justice League” project, and later she was cast in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
Her wedding dress was a custom Pallas Couture lace gown.
Described her character in The Grudge 2 (2006) as the “bitchy” school girl.
Her role in The Grudge 2 (2006) was originally written for Vanessa Lengies, who turned it down to work on another movie.
Is a longtime fan of the Port Adelaide Football Club.
Worked as an extra on Deck Dogz (2005).
Grew up in the same city as Sia.
She was considered for a role in Nash Edgerton’s The Square (2008), but the role was written out before casting began. She did eventually work with Edgerton on the short film Bear (2011).
Actress and model Teresa Palmer has gathered some impressive film credits. She was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Kevin Palmer, an investor, and Paula Sanders, a former missionary and nurse. Her parents separated when she was three, and divorced in 1992 when she was six.[3] She has a stepmother, Karen Palmer, as well as two half-sisters and three stepbrothers, who lived with her father. Teresa stated to Interview that she “came from rather humble beginnings”; she lived in public housing with her mother, while regularly visiting her father at his farm near Mylor in the Adelaide Hills (which she later purchased as an adult). Teresa was named after Mother Teresa by her mother, and has stated that she had a “tough upbringing” due to her mother’s manic depression. She completed high school at Mercedes College in 2003, where she was a popular student who was well-known for her practical jokes. Teresa won a local-casting audition, “Search for a Movie Star,” in 2003. Her first acting job was dressing up as a Strawberry Shortcake doll and as an elf assistant to mall Santa Clauses on weekends for promotions in shopping centres near Adelaide. Teresa went to acting classes for a couple of years and appeared in several television commercials. She was a fast-food attendant at Hungry Jack’s in Rundle Mall in 2005, before working at clothing retailers Supré, Mambo Australia and Cotton On.
After graduating from high school, Teresa thought that she would work in an animal rescue service, and eventually open her own animal welfare agency. She was accepted into a university to study teaching and was taking a course on journalism, but had always dreamt of acting. Teresa was discovered and cast on the spot–without an audition–in her feature film debut and breakthrough role in 2:37 (2006). Made by first-time writer/director/producer Murali K. Thalluri, the film competed in the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in “Un Certain Regard” and chronicles the lives of six students over the course of day and ends in a devastating suicide. Teresa dropped out of the university to work on the film.
Teresa immediately went to work on back-to-back film projects including December Boys (2007) opposite “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe–a coming-of-age story about four adolescent orphans, based on the book by Michael Noonan and directed by Rod Hardy (Robinson Crusoe (1997), Buffalo Girls (1995), The X-Files (1993) and The Practice (1997)). She also starred as stripper-turned-criminal “Dale” in the British/Australian co-production Restraint (2008), a film noir/psychological thriller that follows the plight of a pair of fugitives on the run from a murder scene. Directed by David Denneen, the film also features former Calvin Klein model Travis Fimmel and British actor Stephen Moyer. In 2006 Teresa worked with Japanese director Takashi Shimizu on the Sony Pictures production The Grudge 2 (2006). Set in Tokyo, the horror sequel to the box-office hit The Grudge (2004) also starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Beals. Later that year Teresa signed on to play the female lead in Doug Liman’s action fantasy film Jumper (2008), but was subsequently replaced by Rachel Bilson.
Early 2007 saw her star opposite former boyfriend Topher Grace as the love interest in the retro comedy film Take Me Home Tonight (2011). Shortly after filming ended, Teresa decided to move permanently from Adelaide to Los Angeles following a public split from her then-boyfriend of two years, Australian Rules football star Stuart Dew. Teresa was due to play a small part in George Miller’s doomed superhero film “Justice League: Mortal”, but the production fell through after months of problems. Teresa briefly dated her “Justice League: Mortal” co-star Adam Brody in early 2008; later that year she had a relationship with British comedian Russell Brand, whom she met on the set of her latest film, Bedtime Stories (2008), a Disney children’s comedy starring Lucy Lawless, Guy Pearce and Keri Russell and was released on Christmas 2008.