Dannii Minogue

Dannii Minogue’s CV is as long as she is tall (5ft 2in to be exact!). Having a natural affinity with performing, Danielle Jane Minogue has crossed television, music, theatre and film since the age of seven, performing professionally for over 32 years.

This year saw Dannii star in her fifth series of the smash-hit television phenomenon Australia’s Got Talent, alongside Brian McFadden and Kyle Sandilands. Dannii remains the show’s beloved – and only original - judge.

Simultaneously, Dannii hailed a ‘national treasure’ in the UK has enjoyed four seasons atop the UK’s highest-rated television programme, The X Factor.

In 2010 Dannii completed her final series of The X Factor as part of the judging panel comprising Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Cheryl Cole. That same year in the Heat Magazine reader poll, Dannii was voted the nations Number 1 Best Judge and Best Dressed Judge. ‘Team Minogue’ member Matt Cardle won the million-pound recording contract at the end of the series, having-been mentored by Dannii every step of the way.

It was in 2007 that Dannii first decided to flip the coin and step off the stage and into the judge’s chair, launching Australia’s Got Talent. It wasn’t long before Simon Cowell snapped her up to judge and mentor on UK’s The X Factor. 2010’s seventh series went on to become the most successful year ever with an incredible final audience peaking at 19.4 million viewers. The X Factor won a National TV Award for ‘Best Entertainment Show’ in 2010, a National TV Award for Most Popular Talent Show and Best Entertainment Show at the Royal Television Awards, all exemplifying the shows unstoppable popularity.

Dannii has been named TV Personality of the Year, Style Icon and Celeb of the Year. She was cover star of Sunday Times’ Style and the first ever lady to grace the cover of Glamour UK twice in the same year in 2010. Dannii has also been crowned one of the world’s most impeccably dressed women by British Vogue, among the best-dressed in the world by readers of UK Glamour and the second most glamorous celeb in the world (beaten only by Victoria Beckham) by Max Factor. Furthermore, Dannii was bestowed with the Best TV Star accolade at the prestigious Elle Style Awards 2010 - chosen by readers and presented to her by sister Kylie.

Following Dannii’s appearance on Piers’ Morgan Life Stories, her debut autobiography My Story was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2010. Personal, contemplative and passionate, it marked a brave and exciting phase for both artist and audience, with sales exceeding 300,000 copies in the UK alone. This year, Dannii unveiled My Style, a 250-page fashion bible. This beautifully presented book shares Dannii’s insider style secrets and tips that have taken her over 30 years to uncover and discover. Having now refined her style; the book will help the reader find their style.

Following a highly successful monthly column for UK’s Glamour magazine, Dannii expanded her writing portfolio as contributing editor for AOL’s mydaily.co.uk in 2011, ,UK's largest female online site.

Dannii has most recently become the global face of ModelCo’s ‘Fibrelash’, the latest eyelash enhancing product on the market.

Having been almost adopted by the UK, Dannii was thrilled to have been a part of the British institution Marks and Spencer’s Spring Summer campaign shot in Miami in early 2011. Dannii joined one of her idols, Twiggy alongside Lisa Snowdon, Ana Beatriz Barros and VV Brown in their nationwide advertising campaigns.

Dannii has also launched her own fashion label - Project D - lovingly co-designed with British talent Tabitha Somerset-Webb in the UK and Australia. Their world debut capsule collection last year was inspired by a mutual friendship and love of fashion, which has taken the fashion world by storm. The range continues to grab world attention and is acclaimed for its attention to details, quality patterns and fabrics and its unique feminine stylish threads. Their first fragrance, also named Project D, was launched in September 2010 and the girls have enjoyed an exciting and successful 2011.

With her background in live family entertainment TV, some of Dannii’s favourite career moments are hosting ITV1’s prime-time special Ultimate Movie Toons (2010) presenting The Lion King special for Disney (1995) and hosting the most recent UK Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards (2008). The KCAs received rave reviews and a 60% increase in audience figures. Following the ‘soggy-celebrity-footsteps’ of Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz, Dannii survived and giggled her way through the shower of slime. So impressed was the President of Nickelodeon U.S., Cyma Zarghami, that she requested Dannii lecture with her at a members only event at the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA).

Very few experience the success and longevity in the entertainment industry that Dannii Minogue has. Thirty-two years ago she began her career on the iconic Australian television drama series Skyways and The Sullivan's, but became a house-hold-name for her role in the most loved prime-time variety show Young Talent Time – the Australian equivalent of Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club. Her popularity, combined with six years of prime time live TV every week, paved the way to a successful solo recording career. Dannii continued to star in Australian network dramas before joining the internationally successful soap opera Home and Away, where she played the rebellious Emma Jackson throughout 1989 and 1990. This was followed by the feature film Secrets (1992) opposite Shine’s Noah Taylor, and UK short film, The Porter (2005) with Max Beesley and Brian Ferry.

Dannii’s theatre and musical credits include her all-time favourite movie character ‘Rizzo’ in Australia’s production of Grease - The Arena Spectacular, playing to more than 450,000 in its first season. Next came the role of Lady Macbeth in a special outdoors adaptation of Macbeth for the Edinburgh Festival. Another triumph saw Dannii play leading role ‘Esmeralda’ for five sell-out months in Notre Dame De Paris at London’s prestigious Dominion Theatre. It was here that Dannii picked up the award for ‘Best Stage Performance,’ playing to a 2,000 strong audience, seven times a week.

As one of Australia’s biggest female exports, Dannii is no stranger to the music charts. A million-selling artist, Minogue owns an anthology of 21 smash-hit singles and five studio albums. In 1990 the then pop starlet released her Top 10 debut single Love and Kisses and Top 10 debut album. A string of Top 10 chart hits followed internationally including Jump To The Beat, This Is It, Put The Needle On It, I Begin To Wonder and You Won’t Forget About Me. Dannii proudly holds the music title 'Queen of the Clubs' after scoring a record-breaking 11 Number One club hits in the UK; more than any other female artist in the world, ever. This achievement began in 1997 with the Xenomania chart-topper All I Wanna Do. The dance music hits continued when the legendary Pete Tong approached Ms Minogue to record the international hit Who Do You Love Now? in 2001. Madonna then sealed Dannii's place at the top in 2003 with Don’t Wanna Lose This Groove; a bootleg of Into The Groove and Don’t Wanna Lose This Feeling. This was the first time Madonna had ever given permission to any artist to use her material. In total, Dannii’s music has earned her more than 200 weeks – virtually four years – on the official UK sales chart.

From cutting individual and iconic sounds for our dance-floors, Dannii sliced up British radio by creating her own music show called Neon Nights for London’s Capital Radio. Her show followed the official chart show and was the first radio show to ever be sold by the Radio network internationally. Outside the world of showbiz, Dannii continues her charity work as ‘Ambassador for Young People’ with the Terrence Higgins Trust; the UK’s leading HIV and AIDS charity. She also accepted Olivia Newton-John’s personal invitation to become an Ambassador for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre Appeal. The charity is raising money to replace the old cancer wards of the Austin Hospital in Melbourne with a brand new building to be named the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre, expected to open in June 2011.

Recent UK Awards:

‘Best TV Judge’ – Heat Magazine 2010
‘Style Icon’ – News of the World 2010
‘Celeb of the Year’ – Metro Newspaper 2010
‘TV Personality of the Year’ – Glamour Magazine 2010
‘Best TV Star’ – Elle Magazine Style Awards 2010
‘Ultimate TV Personality’ – Cosmopolitan Magazine 2009
‘Favourite Judge’ – OK! Magazine 2009
‘Celeb of the Year’ – Metro Newspaper 2008
‘TV Personality of the Year’ – Glamour Magazine 2008

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Talent Manager:

Melissa Le Gear
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