Quilter

Nicola Quilter was born in the UK but moved to Australia when she was 2. She wrote and recorded her first song when she was 12, sang and acted her way through school, then secured a place at Sydney College Of Arts to do Fashion and Textile Design. At the end of the first year she auditioned and gained entry to Victorian College Of Arts as an actor and so left Sydney for Melbourne. Nicola was thrown out of Drama school but was offered representation at The Actors Agency. After a few small parts Nicola moved back to Sydney where Mark Morrissey represented her and Nicola wrote a song for East Timor ‘Cry Freedom’, which became the single for a compilation with many Australian bands including Midnight Oil, Painter’s and Docker’s, Crowded House, Archie Roche … She then organised a 3 day benefit concert to raise money for the children of East Timor and rebuild schools there. The day the concert finished she secured a permanent role on ‘Home and Away’. From there she didn’t stop working as an actor until she was offered a contract in London to do pantomime, as Cinderella. When the show finished Nicola set about getting a record deal. She shaved off her hair and played around London and found a team to record with. The ill fated Big Cat records offered her a two album deal firm– she made the first album (‘The Truth About Lies’) but the record company closed down before it’s release. The single ‘Loosen Up’ went to No.