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Emily Symons
Emily Symons
She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 10 August 1969. Her mother remarried when she was four years old and Emily didn't see her real father again until 10 years later.
She left school before finishing her exams and launched herself into the acting world. For nearly a year, she worked in shops before getting a break in a post office training video.
Emily went to auditions for Home and Away wearing a tight-fitting dress, stilettos, earrings and bangles. She got the job. Emily was in the soap Home And Away in 1989-92, 1995-99 and 2001. She liked very much playing the soap Marilyn Fisher. In 1990, she ended her engagement to an Australian lightning technician on Home and Away, before marrying a British drummer in 1992. They was divorced in 1995.
Shortly after leaving Home and Away, Emily developed an eating problem and lost a stone in weight. When producers called her in for talks, she knew she had to sort herself out.
She moved to the United Kingdom from Australia in 1999 to be with fiance Southampton soccer star Matt Le Tissier, but the couple was divorced in August 2000. She had a very profound knowledge of the British soap Emmerdale (ITV) when she started acting the pub owner Louise Appleton in June 2001.
Emily, who bowed out of Home And Away in 1999 when her character Marilyn Fisher's baby died, plays Louise Appleton. She is the first Australian actress to star in Emmerdale.
She has played herself in the TV programme Greasemania in 2003. She has also played Anne Costello in the TV-series Richmond Hill (1988) and Anya in the TV programme Computer Ghosts.
Her notable TV guest appearances, in which she plays herself, are GMTV (1993) 28 June 2001, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (2002)(episode # 2.8) 1 March 2003, This Morning (1988) 2 May 2003, Stars In Their Eyes (1990), in which she also plays Rosemary Clooney in the episode Soap Stars Special 2 23 August 2003, GMTV (1993) 29 October 2003, and Richard and Judy 16 December 2003.
Emily Symons as Marilyn Fisher (nee Chambers)
Marilyn Fisher (nee Chambers) is an attractive, kind and talkative woman.
Marilyn Chambers had a problematic childhood. She was orphaned in her pre-teens, her relatives did not care for her, but Donald Fisher helped her with an education in her young years.
Marilyn ran the beauty parlour in Summer Bay, Australia. She was always listening to the talk of the local women in Summer Bay, and she had a very good and natural ability to talk with anyone about anything giving her comments and advices.
After some relationships with different men, Marilyn got married to Donald Fisher. Happily settled in her marriage with Donald Fisher, Marilyn became pregnant, but her first pregnancy ended in miscarriage.
She became pregnant again. Marilyn gave birth to baby Byron, but she experienced the birth as a trauma, because she was not prepared for the birth, which was by caesarian section, and Donald Fisher was not present when his son was born. At home Marilyn did not cope with being a mother. She felt like a failure because she could not love her son in the way she felt she as a mother should love him. She suffered from post natal-depression. For some motns. Marilyn left Donald Fisher without leaving traces.
When she returned home, she found a housekeeper named Ellen Porter, and she felt she was an unfit mother when she compared herself to Ellen. Marilyn had become suspicious of Fisher's favouritism towards Ellen and became jealous. Donald Fisher admitted he was not sure whether he loved her or not. But Donald Fisher and Marilyn have sorted things out.
Baby Byron was diagnosed with cancer. Marilyn and Fisher disputed over where to care for baby Byron. She left for the USA with baby Byron.
After baby Byron's death, Marilyn disappeared and never returned. She wrote to Donald Fisher saying that she is not returning.
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