STEPHANIE MCINTOSH

'Stephanie McIntosh' (born 5 July 1985) is an Australian actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Sky Mangel in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' and her music career, which began with the release of her debut album ''Tightrope'' in September 2006.
She is the half-sister of singer and actor Jason Donovan, himself a former ''Neighbours'' star. McIntosh also has two older sisters called Katherine and Olivia and her mother Sue McIntosh, is a former newsreader for ABC News. She is currently in a relationship St Kilda Football player Nick Riewoldt.

Contents

Acting career

Other work

Music

The Steph Show

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

References

External links

Acting career

McIntosh appeared in the film ''The Wilde Girls'' alongside Olivia Newton-John as well as the Australian kids' TV show, ''The Legacy of the Silver Shadow'', both small guest appearances.

In 2003, McIntosh became a regular on Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' playing character "Sky Mangel".

For her performance in ''Neighbours'', she was nominated for the "Most Popular New Female Talent" award at the 46th Annual ''TV Week'' Logie Awards held in 2004, but lost to Isabel Lucas from ''Home And Away''. She left the series when her contract expired in March 2007. ^[1]

Other work

As a child she also did some modelling work. McIntosh will be appearing on various radio stations in the UK including stations run by EMAP and GCap Media in 2007.

Music

Following the path of many Neighbours stars by diversifying into music, McIntosh signed a five-album deal to Universal Music Australia. McIntosh released her debut album ''Tightrope'' on September 9, 2006, which debuted at number 4 on the ARIA Charts. Glenn Wheatley, Delta Goodrem's former manager, is managing McIntosh. The music and TV concept is being produced by UK producers Tom Nichols & Arnon Woolfson.
Her debut single ''Mistake'', was released on July 29 2006 and premiered on Australian radio on June 26 2006. It debuted on the ARIA Charts at #3, and has since gone Gold, with shipments of over 35,000 units.
''Tightrope'', the second single to be lifted off the album, made the Australian Top 20 - but failed to chart as well as ''Mistake''. The album debuted at #4 on the ARIA Charts and #1 on the Australasian Charts and has been accredited Gold.
According to Universal Musics website, a special repackaged edition of the album ''Tightrope'' will be being released on the 19th March 2007. ^[2] At her appearance on Habbo Hotel on 8th March 2007, McIntosh confirmed that the repackaged edition will feature remixes of the singles as well as ''Catching My Breath''. She also confirmed that a 2nd season of The Steph Show is in the pipeline, however this increasingly looks unlikely. McIntosh was also nominated for "Spankin New Artist" in the Australia MTV Awards, where she also performed. Stephanie performed ''So Do I Say Sorry First?'' and struggled with part of the song where she was without musical backing, and her performance was cut from later screenings of the show. This was the second time she has struggled live, following a poorly received performance on The Footy Show.
''Mistake'' was the debut single in the UK, with McIntosh promoting over there in June 2007 ^[3]''Mistake'' was available in the UK for download only on June 18th and then its physical release was a week later on June 25th. McIntosh did a lot promotional work on British Radio and TV. ''Mistake'' debuted at #168 on the UK Singles Chart purely on downloads and then reached its peak of #47 upon its pysical release.
The album, ''Tightrope'' will be released on 20th August in the UK and has already peaked at #11 on the UK Top 100 PreOrder Album Chart. ''So Do I Say Sorry First?'' was the 2nd UK single. It was available in the UK for download only on August 6th and then its physical release would have been a week later on August 13th, however, several days after the release date it was announced that ''So Do I Say Sorry First?'' would be a 'download exclusive' single. It peaked at #258 on the UK Singles Chart.
In the August 25 edition of the Australian Woman's Day, McIntosh was quoted as saying that she is "looking forward to launching her next album" leading to speculation that she has started working on a second album.
It has been confirmed that her music career has failed to take off in the UK and she will be only releasing songs in Australia.

The Steph Show

''The Steph Show'' premiered on Australian TV at 6:00pm July 28, 2006 on Network Ten and finished in September 2006.
The show, in the same vein as ''The Ashlee Simpson Show'', had cameras following McIntosh as she recorded her debut album
''Tightrope''. The first single entitled ''Mistake'' was released the day after the season premiere. McIntosh has confirmed that MTV USA has bought the rights to air the show in the USA . The show is expected to premiere sometime in 2007. A second season is in the pipeline.

Discography

Albums

'''Tightrope''' ★ Released: September 9 2006 (Australia) August 20 2007 (UK) ★ Chart positions: #4 (Australia) ★ ARIA certification: Gold ★ Singles: ★ ★ ''Mistake'' (July 2006 Australia) (June 2007 UK) ★ ★ ''Tightrope'' (October 2006 Australia) (November 2007 UK) ★ ★ ''So Do I Say Sorry First?'' (March 2007 Australia) (August 2007 UK)

Singles

Year	Song	Australia	UK	IRE
2006	''Mistake''	3	47	54	''Tightrope''
	''Tightrope''	16	-	-
2007	''So Do I Say Sorry First?''	34	258	-

Music videos

Song	Director	Released
''Mistake''	Anthony Rose	July 10 2006
''Tightrope''	Anthony Rose	September 15 2006
''So Do I Say Sorry First?''	Anthony Rose	January 15 2007

References

1. Digital Spy
2. Digital Spy
3. Digital Spy

External links

★ Official Australian Website

★ Official UK Website

★ Official Australian MySpace

★ Official UK MySpace

★ Stephanie McIntosh Fan Forum