GRACING the pages of fashion magazines and appearing in Hollywood movies might be the fantasy of every young woman but for former Riverside High School student Rachael Taylor, it's a reality. The 22-year-old Sydney-based actor recently finished filming her first major role in Transformers: The Movie, which is due to hit screens next month, and she has appeared in an eight-page fashion shoot in the March issue of InStyle magazine on sale now.She can also be seen modelling jewellery in the latest Jan Logan catalogue.Taylor's big break follows smaller roles in a number of US productions including a telemovie about Natalie Wood and the making of Dynasty (where she played Catherine Oxenburg) and the horror movies Man-Thing and See No Evil.She also played Sasha Forbes on the short-lived Australian drama series headLand and was nominated for a 2006 Logie Award for her role (most popular new talent) despite the show having been removed from television two months earlier.Taylor moved from Launceston to Sydney to further her acting career at 16.She studied politics and history at the University of Sydney before deferring her arts/law degree to appear on headLand - the show she credited for having given her the impetus to try her luck in the US.The Launceston-born screen siren told InStyle that the ensuing whirlwind adventure - a dinner party with Hugh Jackman, US Vogue editor Anna Wintor and Rupert Murdoch; a meeting with Titanic titan James Cameron; on- set visits from Transformers executive producer Steven Spielberg; and a subsequent role in the thriller Shatter - hadn't gone to her head."I thought I'd be making coffee for a couple of months and then maybe make a little indie film," she said."I just spent six months of my life running away from aliens and shooting machine guns."It's hard to take yourself too seriously when you're doing something so fun and outrageous.
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