Lara Sacher is an Australian actress who played Serena Bishop

Serena Bishop

Serena Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Lara Sacher. She made her first on-screen appearance on 9 October 2003. Serena's storylines included kissing her cousin's boyfriend, being taken advantage of by a photographer and starting an incestuos...

 on the Australian soap opera Neighbours

Neighbours

Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems...

from 2003 to 2005.

Biography

When she was very young, Sacher appeared in a Banana Advertisement on the TV. Ten years later the cast from the ad had a reunion and Lara appeared with her name on the screen.

Sacher's Neighbours character went missing (presumed dead) after a plane crash along with her mother, Liljana

Liljana Bishop

Liljana "Lil" Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Marcella Russo. She made her first on-screen appearance on 9 October 2003...

 (Marcella Russo

Marcella Russo

Marcella Russo is an Australian actress who is best known for playing Liljana Bishop in the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2003 until 2005, when her character was killed off in the Neighbours plane crash....

) and father, David

David Bishop (Neighbours)

David Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Kevin Harrington. He made his first on-screen appearance on 12 May 1988, arriving for his father's wedding. David, along with his wife and daughter, returned in 2003...

 (Kevin Harrington). Sacher also appeared in the children's show Noah and Saskia

Noah and Saskia

Noah and Saskia is a 13-episode children's television program co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and British Broadcasting Corporation. The show explores a situation in which two teenagers meet in an Internet chatroom, using personas that are very different from their true selves...

playing the character of Claire, where she would meet Hannah Greenwood

Hannah Greenwood

Hannah Greenwood is an Australian stage and television actress, best known for starring as Saskia Litras in the Australian children's television series Noah and Saskia.-Background:Greenwood currently lives in Melbourne, Australia...

, who would later play Teresa Cammeniti on Neighbours.

Since leaving Neighbours, Lara has appeared as a female rocker in a television advertisement for the Nestle chocolate bar Aero

Aero

Aero is a Greek prefix relating to flight, and air. It British English it is used as an adjective related to flight , as in "aero engine"Aero may also refer to:-In aeronautics:...

. She appeared in a pantomime

Pantomime

Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...

 in the UK during Christmas 2007, at the Lyceum Theatre

Lyceum Theatre (Crewe)

The Lyceum Theatre is an Edwardian theatre in Heath Street, Crewe, Cheshire, England. It originated as a converted Roman Catholic Church in 1876. The church was replaced in 1887 by a purpose-built theatre, which burnt down in 1910. The theatre was rebuilt the following year, and was refurbished...

, Crewe

Crewe

Crewe is a railway town within the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census the urban area had a population of 67,683...

, Cheshire in Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740...

, playing the main part of Beauty.

Away from acting, she has started her own drama school "The Lara Sacher School of Drama" in Malvern, Melbourne for kids aged between six and fourteen. She is currently at Monash University in Melbourne. Sacher aims to teach students. she has had some experience at Balwyn Primary School.

External links

• Not just play acting, from The Age
  The Age
  The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...