Zoë Ventoura is an Australian actress. She played Melissa Rafter inPacked to the Rafters from 2008 to 2010. The character's death earned Ventoura a nomination for theLogie Award for Most Popular Actress in 2011. That same year, Ventoura starred alongside actorDaniel MacPherson, whom she later married, inWild Boys. Other roles include Miki Mavros in the television comedy seriesKick and Sonya Hyde inHyde and Seek. Ventoura joined the recurring cast ofHome and Away asAlex Neilson in 2019.

Ventoura attendedPenrhos College inPerth, Western Australia.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2014, Ventoura became engaged to longtime partner andWild Boys co-starDaniel MacPherson,^[1] and they married in Noosa in November 2015.^[2] The couple have one child, a son born in December 2019 named Austin Xavier.^[3] A year later, Ventoura announced that the pair had separated.^[4]

Ventoura portrayed Melissa Rafter (née Bannon) inPacked to the Rafters. Her shock on-screen death was the highest rating episode of the hugely popular series, and gained her a nomination for theLogie Award for Most Popular Actress in 2011.^[5] That same year, Ventoura starred alongside actor Daniel MacPherson in the Seven Network colonial dramaWild Boys.

Ventoura is also known for starring as Miki Mavros in theSBS television comedy seriesKick, for which she earned two Logie nominations. She has also had a number of roles in the theatre, film and other television series such asLast Man Standing, US feature filmsDrive Hard,Fatal Honeymoon and the horror movieSee No Evil. She appeared in Disney'sPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, andThe Osiris Child: Science Fiction Volume One by director Shane Abbess. In 2016, Ventoura starred opposite Matt Nable as Sonya Hyde in the Australian thriller,Hyde and Seek for Channel 9.

Ventoura joined the cast of television soap operaHome and Away asAlex Neilson in April 2019 during the show's thirty-second season.^[6] She made her first on-screen appearance on 22 August 2019.

In September 2020, it was announced that Ventoura had joined the cast ofNine Network drama seriesDoctor Doctor for its fifth season, which aired in 2021.^[7]

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