Occupation Actress | Name Kathy Troutt | |
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Born 14 September 1947 (age 77) ( 1947-09-14 ) Bath England | ||
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Kathy Troutt (born 14 September 1947) in Bath, England, is a model, actor, deep sea diver and dolphin trainer, who moved to Australia in 1948.
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Diving career
At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the "Guinness Book of Records" for the longest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air for 320 feet off Sydney Harbour with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds. Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965
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. Troutt appeared in the documentary Mermaids in Paradise released to television and cinemas in 1965 by Ben Cropp
Dolphin training
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.
Later hired for similar work for the feature film The Blue Lagoon where Troutt played body-double for Brook Shields.
Followed by work as a crew member with Return to the Blue Lagoon and later several other feature films produced in Australia and Asia.