Cariba Heine

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Cariba Heine is an Australian-South African actress and dancer

Oct 1, 1988

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: October 1, 1988
  • Nationality: Australian, South African
  • Famous: Dancers, Film & Theater Personalities, Actresses
  • Partners:
    • Jamie Timony (2008–)
  • Siblings: Kyle Heine
  • Birth Place: Johannesburg
  • Born Country: South Africa

Cariba Heine born at

Johannesburg

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Birth Place

Cariba Heine is in a relationship with Jamie Timony since 2008. In 2018, there were rumours doing the rounds that they may be engaged but neither one of them confirmed the speculations.

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Personal Life

Cariba is known as a perfectionist among her fans. She used to practice dancing 25 hours every week and for her series ‘H20: Just Add Water’, she trained extensively to learn swimming for the auditions.

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Personal Life

Cariba Heine was born on October 1, 1988 in Johannesburg, South Africa to parents Kevin and Michelle Heine. Cariba grew up in the family with an elder brother Kyle. When she was three years old, the family moved to Australia.

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Childhood & Early Life

Cariba was fond of her mother and inherited the love for dancing and performing arts from her. At a very young age, Cariba was enrolled in a dancing school, where she was trained in many different forms of dancing. Her mother ran a dancing academy in Canberra and this further propelled Cariba to spend more and more time learning different forms of dance.

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Dancing was consuming too much of Cariba’s time. Her mother thought getting her home schooled was the best course of action. She did it in order to facilitate Cariba’s love for dancing as she was very quickly turning into a talented dancer.

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Cariba further enrolled into gymnastic classes and learned diverse dancing techniques from different academies. Overtime, she became expert in Jazz, tap dance, classic ballet dance, acrobatics and gymnastic moves. To further grow her range as a performing artist she attended National Capital Acting School where she was further trained in acting and singing.

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During her teen years, she started touring around with her groups and as a solo artist and further established a name as a very talented young dancer.

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Childhood & Early Life

She had a glorious dancing career in Australia and danced at some prestigious venues, such as the Stargazers Convention in Sydney. She was the youngest of all the dancers who performed at the venue. She also performed in many stage shows around Australia and even went to United States for some shows. Upon landing there, she got the chance to perform in the music video for Will Young’s song ‘Leave Right Now’. The song was released in 2003 when Cariba was 15 years old.

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Career

She formed a duo with Dale Mulloy and they performed shows across Australia. They performed hip-hop and funk dancing, which was a highly adored dancing genre by the young Australians. By the time she turned 15, Cariba was already a dancing star in Australia. The duo parted ways after performing together for 3 years.

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At the peak of her dancing career, Cariba faced an injury that brought an indefinite halt to her dancing career. She was advised to keep herself away from dancing and to focus on acting instead. Cariba started auditioning and by the year 2003, she started appearing in short films.

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One of her earlier short films was titled ‘Ballistic Sessions’, which ran into a few film festivals. Post that, she appeared as herself in the Australian dancing show ‘Strictly Dancing’ in the episode titled ‘Heat 12’.

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She was looking around for a breakthrough role when she was signed up for the family/fantasy drama series ‘H20: Just Add Water’ in 2005. When she got the call for the audition, she came to know that she was to play the leading role and had to learn swimming. She hired a swimming trainer before she appeared for the auditions and following the auditions, she was selected to play one of the leading roles as Nikki Chadwick.

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