Poppy Montgomery, an Australian actress, left school at the legal age of 14 years and 9 months to take up the job of a waitress at one of her father’s restaurants. Unfortunately, her performance was so disastrous that her father promptly sacked her. Interestingly, all her sisters, four of them, were named after flowers. Poppy Montgomery’s journey to Hollywood from Australia might seem to be straight out of the pages of a thriller.
Poppy Montgomery left Australia to join her then boyfriend in Florida, USA but they broke up and she discovered herself almost penniless in Sarasota. However, she somehow survived and continued her struggle to become an actress in Hollywood adopting her mother's maiden name of Montgomery.
Name : "Poppy Montgomery" Gender : Female Date of birth : Jun 19, 1972 City : Sydney State/Region : New South Wales Country : Australia After a few small roles and guest appearances, she got her first prominent film role in "Dead Man on Campus" in 1998. Following this, she joined veterans like Diane Keaton and Eddie Murphy in the movies "The Other Sister" and "Life" respectively, both in 1999.
With a few shows in between including the WB’s Glory Days, she finally delivered a hit with CBS's Without a Trace in which she plays the role of Samantha Spade. In 2001, Montgomery landed her dream role when she was chosen to play Marilyn Monroe in the 4-hour television mini-series "Blonde", based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional novel of the same title.
Poppy Montgomery performance received appreciation from critics and laymen alike. She had left no stone unturned to do justice to the role – she gave up yoga and other physical exercises in order to gain nearly 12 pounds to get closer to the ample figure of Marilyn Monroe. Montgomery once posed nude in the art magazine Black+White.
She is currently dating and living with boyfriend Adam Kaufman, her co-star in the independent film Between. In June 2007, she announced that she was pregnant with Kaufman’s child, due in December.
