Erika Heynatz

Erika Heynatz
Biographical
Gender	Female
Born	March 25, 1975 (1975-03-25)
Home	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Height	5'11"

Erika Heynatz (born 25 March 1975) is a Papua New Guinean-born Australian model, actress, singer, and television personality. She was the host for the first two cycles of Australia's Next Top Model in 2005 and 2006.

Early Life

Heynatz's grandfather immigrated to Australia at the age of fourteen and a half from Denmark. She grew up in the town of Moe in Victoria, New England, and went to high school in Warragul at St. Pauls Grammar.

Career

Erika first signed with Chic Model Management in 1997. In 2003, she starred in the television movie Mermaids, and has since appeared in numerous other feature film roles. She also appeared as a guest star in the sci-fi series Farscape in the episodes "Terra Firma" and "Unrealized Reality".

Heynatz hosted the first two cycles of the AusNTM and the only season of the Ten Network's The Hot House. She demonstrated a commitment to her singing career by leaving her Top Model job, which later went to Jodhi Meares. She appeared on the Seven Network's celebrity singing contest It Takes Two in 2006. Paired with David Hobson as her tutor, she eventually won the contest. On April 15, 2008, she performed a cover of the Rosi Golan song "Slide" on It Takes Two and impressed the critics with the performance. In 2007, Heynatz starred in the motion picture Gabriel. She was a special guest judge during Cycle 8 of ANTM where the international destination was in Sydney.

She signed a recording contract with EMI Music Australia, and her debut single, "Kingdom", was released on February 12, 2010. The video for the clip was filmed in the US. Her second single, "Bullet", was released on June 18, 2010. Her debut album, Sweeter Side, was released on July 16, 2010.

She appears in Rockstar Games' L.A. Noire, as Elsa Lichtmann, which is produced using advanced motion capture technology. Although her character performs several 1940s-style songs in the game, synthpop singer Claudia Brücken performed the vocals. In 2013, she was in the musical Legally Blonde as Brooke Wyndham. In 2014 she starred as the Usherette and Magenta in the Australian tour of The Rocky Horror Show. In 2015, it was announced that Heynatz had joined Seven Network soap opera Home and Away in a recurring role as school teacher Charlotte King. She first appeared on screen in June and departed in December of the same year, when her character was murdered by main character, Josh Barrett, played by Jackson Gallagher.

Personal Life

On 8 March 2007, she married long-term partner Andrew Kingston. They have a son named Charlie.

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