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==Modeling and acting career==
==Modeling and acting career==
Sports clothes and glamour model throughout the 1960s, she appeared on [[Skippy the Bush Kangaroo]] (as herself) as a visiting marine biologist. {{clarify|date=June 2016}}
Sports clothes and glamour model throughout the 1960s, she appeared on ''[[Skippy the Bush Kangaroo]]'' (as herself) as a visiting marine biologist.{{clarify|date=June 2016}}
Troutt appeared in the documentary Mermaids in Paradise released to television and cinemas in 1965 by [[Ben Cropp]]<ref>{{cite journal|title= Interview with Kathy Troutt|work=[[Fathom (magazine)|Fathom]]|volume=1|issue= 1|editor-last=Harding|editor-first=John |publisher=Gareth Powell Associates|location=Sydney, NSW |url=https://fathom1a.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/fathom-one-pages-19-31-kathy-troutt.html |page=30|via=Blogger.com Fathom#1, Thursday May 5, 2016|date=1971 |accessdate= 23 May 2017}}</ref>
Troutt appeared in the documentary ''Mermaids in Paradise'', released to television and cinemas in 1965 by [[Ben Cropp]].<ref>{{cite journal|title= Interview with Kathy Troutt|work=[[Fathom (magazine)|Fathom]]|volume=1|issue= 1|editor-last=Harding|editor-first=John |publisher=Gareth Powell Associates|location=Sydney, NSW |url=https://fathom1a.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/fathom-one-pages-19-31-kathy-troutt.html |page=30|via=Blogger.com Fathom#1, Thursday May 5, 2016|date=1971 |accessdate= 23 May 2017}}</ref>


==Dolphin training==
==Dolphin training==

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Kathy Troutt
Born (1947-09-14) 14 September 1947 (age 77)
OccupationActress

Kathy Troutt (born 14 September 1947) is a model, actor, deep sea diver[clarification needed] and dolphin trainer who moved to Australia in 1948.[citation needed]

Diving career

At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the "Guinness Book of Records" for the longest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air for 320 feet[clarification needed] off Sydney Harbour with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds.[1] Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965[2]

Modeling and acting career

Sports clothes and glamour model throughout the 1960s, she appeared on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (as herself) as a visiting marine biologist.[clarification needed] Troutt appeared in the documentary Mermaids in Paradise, released to television and cinemas in 1965 by Ben Cropp.[3]

Dolphin training

She worked in pantomime London, England, where she trained dolphins for movies. She was spotted by a representative of director Mike Nichols, where she was to train a dolphin for the feature film The Day of the Dolphin.[citation needed]

Troutt was later hired for similar work for the feature film The Blue Lagoon, in which she also played the body double for Brooke Shields.[4]

This was followed by work as a crew member on Return to the Blue Lagoon and several other feature films later produced in Australia and Asia.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Deep Dive" People Magazine (Australia) by Alan Kershaw 17 November 1965
  2. ^ Australian Skindivers Magazine, December 1965 'Wreck of Catherine Adamston'.
  3. ^ Harding, John, ed. (1971). "Interview with Kathy Troutt". Fathom. 1 (1). Sydney, NSW: Gareth Powell Associates: 30. Retrieved 23 May 2017 – via Blogger.com Fathom#1, Thursday May 5, 2016.
  4. ^ Arnord, Gary (11 July 1980). "Depth Defying". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  5. ^ Kathy Troutt with dolphin. Cover, Australian Women's Weekly, 19 September 1973