Megan Connolly (actress)
{{short description|Australian actress (1974–2001)}}
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| birthname = Megan Jennifer Connolly
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1974|4|9}}
| birth_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2001|9|6|1974|4|9}}
| death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| occupation = Actress, VJ (media personality)
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Megan Jennifer Connolly (9 April 1974 – 6 September 2001) was an Australian actress, mainly of soap opera. She grew up in the northern Sydney suburb of St Ives, New South Wales.
Career
Connolly's film debut was 1990's The Crossing with Russell Crowe. She later played Tori Hayden in the soap opera Paradise Beach[https://books.google.com/books?id=i-U_OkpqpKMC&dq=%22Megan+Connolly%22&pg=PA323 Super Aussie soaps: behind the scenes of Australia's best loved TV shows] By Andrew Mercado. Pluto Press Australia. p. 323. Later she hosted the television shows The Zone and Body Corp. She also acted in the TV series Breakers.
She was Foxtel's Channel V VJ through 1997. On stage, she starred in the musical Resurrected!. Connolly temporarily replaced Belinda Emmett as Rebecca Nash in Home and Away.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/belinda-emmett-424315.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/belinda-emmett-424315.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Belinda Emmett Obituary |date=15 November 2006 |newspaper=The Independent |accessdate=18 February 2010}}
Death
Megan died from a heroin overdose on 6 September 2001 at the age of 27 while staying at a relative's home in New South Wales, Australia.
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External links
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Category:Australian film actresses
Category:Australian television actresses
Category:Deaths by heroin overdose in Australia