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Zoe Brock (born on January 20, 1974) is a New Zealand born, Australian bred model, writer and actress.

Biography
Early Life

Zoe Brock was born in Christchurch, New Zealand to Brigid and Warwick Brock, both well known New Zealanders in their own right. Her fashion designer mother and creative advertising director father separated shortly after her birth and Zoe, an only child, was brought up in two households, spending an equal amount of time with each parent. In 1986, at the age of twelve, Zoe immigrated to Melbourne, Australia with her mother and began attending Melbourne Girls Grammar School in South Yarra.

Career
Modeling

In 1987 Zoe was discovered by a photographer who had been sent to take pictures of Brigid Brock's apartment for a story in Vogue Living magazine. The photographer asked to take pictures of the young teenager and showed them to an agency, Chadwick Model Management, who subsequently called the family and asked for a meeting. Within two weeks Zoe was shooting her first Vogue magazine editorial. She was thirteen years old.

In 1989 Zoe spent her school holidays in Tokyo working unchaperoned and under contract. In 1990, after a trip to Fiji, again with Vogue magazine, Zoe decided to leave school and concentrate on her career. Within a few short months she was living in Europe where she was photographed for magazines such as Vent Ans, Elle, Vogue, Grazia and others. She waled the catwalks for Giorgio Armani, Guy Laroche, Thierry Mugler, Karl Lagerfeld, Dolce and Gabana, Kenzo, Anna Molinari and more.

In 1997 Zoe spent the season in Miami Beach, Florida and decided to move to America. She spent the next several years modeling between Miami and New York, with Wilhelmina Agency, and Milan, where she was represented by Why Not Agencia.

Zoë is still represented around the globe and continues to work regularly in the United States.

Career Transitions

In 1999 Zoe began studying writing. She enrolled in the Gotham Writers Workshop and started, tentatively, to pursue her life-long dream of becoming a writer. In 2001 she was cast, despite never having studied acting, alongside Vince Vaughn and Jaime Pressley, in the Showtime Network television show "Going To California". The role of 'Ylva', a Russian model and heroin addict, originally went to a Russian model, but was re-cast after Zoe auditioned pretending to be Russian.

In 2002 Zoe moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. She enrolled in the esteemed Lesly Kahn school under Lesly, and also studied with Sandy Marshall and Chad McCourt. During this time she booked a small role on "She Spies" opposite Natasha Henstridge.

In 2004, after deciding that Hollywood and acting were not her creative passions, Zoe retreated behind the camera and back to Australia. She returned to Sydney and Melbourne and began writing.

Writing and Film

In 2006 Zoe began blogging on MySpace in order to gain confidence and build an audience. She was asked to join MySpace by Brad Listi, creator of thenervousbreakdown.com and author of the best selling novel 'Attention Deficit Disorder'. Reluctantly Zoe joined the social networking giant and began to blog. She wrote under the pseudonyms "Miss Bandit" and "Miss (Ass) Bandit" for no other reason than to entertain herself. What began as a way to find a voice and re-direct readers to thenervousbreakdown.com soon became something more. Her MySpace blog quickly became a free for all and was at one point ranked in the top ten of trafficked blogs on MySpace, at a time when approximately 600,000 blogs were posted on the site every day.

Zoe quickly became intrigued at the personal nature of the cyber-relationships she witnessed between what were, ostensibly, strangers. Intrigued, she decided to try and discover why modern humans were seeking friendships over the internet, and why they were divulging so much of their personal lives to people they might never meet. Zoë wrote a treatment for a documentary film and, with the help of her partner and producer, raised enough money to begin filming. In early 2007 Zoë set out across America with a small film crew to met the readers of her blog that had moved her and shared their secrets with her. She wanted to know if it was possible to truly be 'friends' with someone she had never met, and what the true meaning of 'friendship' was. For six weeks, across 8,000 miles she journeyed, staying with and meeting people from MySpace. The title of the film is "My Best Friends Are Strangers?"

With "My Best Friends Are Strangers?" in post-production and set for a 2009 premiere at Sundance, as well as showings in Berlin and Los Angeles, Zoë has moved on to feature screen writing. Her IMDB profile states that she is currently at work on two screenplays.