Occupation(s) Musician, actress Role Actress Instruments violin, mandolin Associated acts Oh Pep! | Years active 2005–present Siblings Lucia Emmerichs Name Pepita Emmerichs | |
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Movies Where the Wild Things Are, Stony Point People also search for Lucia Emmerichs, Spike Jonze, Olivia Peniston-Bird | ||
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Pepita Emmerichs is an Australian musician and actress. She co-founded the music group Oh Pep! with Olivia Hally, and appeared in the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.
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- How To Pick A Mandolin wPepita Emmerichs Oh Pep
- Oh Pep Hurt Nobody Black Box Sessions
- Life and career
- Personal life
- Filmography
- References
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Life and career
Pepita "Pepi" Emmerichs was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. She attended the Victorian College of Arts Secondary School, where she began collaborating with fellow student Olivia Hally in 2009. Emmerichs and Hally later co-founded the band Oh Pep!, whose musical style Emmerichs has characterised as "folk/pop/country with bluegrass instrumentation".
Emmerichs also appeared in Spike Jonze's 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are, in which she played Claire, the protagonist's older sister.
Personal life
Emmerichs lived with her mother, father and younger sister Lucia Emmerichs, who is best known for her role as Ophelia Hicks on the TV series Tangle. She is friends with her Stony Point co-star Nikita Leigh-Pritchard; they have known each other since 2005 when they both guest-starred on Blue Heelers episode "Everything a girl could want".