She first came to our knowledge as a cast member on MTV’s Real World, and since then Jacinda Barrett, an Australian-American actress has been on to stardom as a model. Although she has long since left her modeling career, her dashing looks combined with her elite on-screen performances have always left us in awe of her.
Jacinda Barrett is known for her roles in Ladder 49, Bridget Jones: Edge of Sanity, Suits, and Poseidon. Her acting career was successful, and with several film/TV credits and millions of dollars in the bank, she gradually claimed her claim in Hollywood.
The biography of Jacinda Barrett
Before hitting the slopes and climbing the cover of magazines, Jacinda Barrett was a humble girl born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland Australia. She was born on August 2, 1972, the same year as the Munich Olympics. When she was born, she received a series of beautiful nicknames from her parents who were greeted with their burden of joy. She was baptized Giacinta Juanita Cordelia Arabella Luciana Rosalina Barrett, which evokes her beauty, sweetness and grace. People’s Magazines would reiterate her parents’ foresight in 1997 by naming her one of their 50 Most Beautiful People in the World, several years later.
Barrett later adopted the name Jacinda, a variant of Giacinta as she moved into her professional life. The young girl was not only a sight to behold, she also had a good head on her shoulder and a heart full of courage and determination. She attended Kenmore State High School in her hometown of Brisbane before continuing her education at San Sisto College.
In college, she entered for beauty and won the annual Dolly Covergirl competition in Australia in 1988 before embarking on modeling at the age of 17. Modeling, as a global business, often puts its members on floors in different parts of the world and the case was no different for Jacinda Barrett. She left the coasts of her country to work and travel throughout Europe before moving on to the screen as an actress.
For Barrett, traveling wasn’t just fun. Living in different countries and away from home allowed her to learn about other cultures, which she did very well. She also learned and imbibed various accents that she could easily pull out whenever the occasion called for it. Has this paid off in his future activities? You can say better.
Acting career
His first screen credit was in the cast’s fourth season of MTV’s Real World in 1995, which was set in London. After that, she enrolled at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England and soon after made her film debut with Tales from the Campfire (1997) as Heather Wallace. Then the stage was set for her elite acting career and Jacinda Barrett couldn’t stop.
In 1998, she had a recurring role on the NBC primetime soap opera. Wind on the water. The same year, she also appeared in films, Pristine Sources and House of Art, as well as guest starred in Night Man, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Guys Like Us. Her later TV projects DC (2000) and Citizen Baines (2001) were short-lived, but she would soon land a small but pivotal role in The Human Spot.in 2003. Her role as Steena Paulsson, a sweet Midwestern student whose boyfriend has a dark secret won her critical acclaim. The film also starred Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.
Shortly after, she starred in the box office hit Ladder 49 (2004) which follows Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison played by Joaquin Phoenix over the past 10 years. John Travolta and Morris Chestnut also starred in the blockbuster. She also appeared in the romantic comedy Bridget Jones: The Edge of Sanity (2004) and the crime thriller Ripley Under Ground in 2005.
The year 2006 marked a breakthrough in the career of Jacinda Barrett, who landed a trio of gutsy roles on the big screen in Hollywood. In the action film Poseidon, she played single mother Maggie James, a nerd, Roger’s dream date, Amanda School for Villains Jenna, the pregnant girlfriend of Zach Braff’s character in The Last Kiss
His other film credits include New York, I Love You (2008), Men in the Middle (2009), had his first Australian film role in Matching Jack (2010), A Proper Dispatch (2011), 2016 independent film So B. it (2016), and Seven in the Sky (2018).
After a long hiatus from the small screen since 2004, she is making a comeback with a recurring role on the legal television series. Costume from 2012 to 2013 as Zoey Lawford, the love interest of her husband Harvey Specter’s character. She was then cast as the lead in Zero Hour (2013), had a guest role in The Next (2014), and also starred in the Netflix original drama Bloodline (2015-2017).
Parents, spouse, children
The actress was born into an airport firefighter, Gerry Barrett and Lyn Barrett. She grew up with her brother, Michael Barrett. Her father’s career as a first responder to the scene of a plane crash prompted her to earn a pilot’s license. She also enjoys skydiving. Barrett became a naturalized citizen of the United States on August 28, 2009.
Jacinda met Chris Hardwick during the MTVseries. The duo got engaged but couldn’t take their relationship to the next level as they ended up going their separate ways. She later married actor Gabriel Macht in 2004.
The couple shared the screen in the 2009 film Men in the Middle as well as the television series Suits. They have two children: a daughter, Satine Anais Geraldine Macht, born August 20, 2007, and a son, Luca Macht, born February 26, 2014.
Jacinda Barrett’s Height
Jacinda is not only nice to behold, but also packs a high punch. This fact was also recognized during her role as Phoenix’s character wife in Ladder 49, where she only wore short ballet slippers so as not to tower over him. Phoenix is half an inch over 5′8″. Jacinda Barrett is 1.78m (5ft 10in) tall.