- Born
- Birth nameBonnie Maree Piesse
- Height1.68 m
- Bonnie Piesse first got into the business when she was 14. A friend of hers got an agent and began doing some work, and suggested she do the same. Bonnie got the very first role she auditioned for and played a Trapeze artist in the Australian children's television show, High Flyers (1999). She took six months off High School for the shoot. Bonnie picked up the guitar when she was 14 and started writing songs. She entered them in, and won a number of prestigious Songwriting Awards. In 2002, was selected with only a handful of the highest-achieving arts students from around Victoria, to perform in two "VCE-Season of Excellence" events, including one at the Melbourne Concert Hall.
Bonnie acted in other Australian TV shows, including Blue Heelers (1994), Stingers (1998), Horace & Tina (2001), and Last Man Standing (2005). Then came the job that has garnered her the most attention, by not only Australian audiences, but the world, as Luke Skywalker's foster mother, "Beru Whitesun", in Star Wars, épisode II : L'Attaque des clones (2002) and Star Wars, épisode III : La Revanche des Sith (2005).
Bonnie then moved to LA where she met Grammy-winning Music Producer, Val Garay (Kim Carnes, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Santana). Val introduced her to many world class songwriters including Eric Kaz ("Love Has No Pride"), Bonnie Hayes ("Have a Heart"), Jack Tempchin ("Peaceful Easy Feeling", "Slow Dancing") and JD Souther ("Heartache Tonight", "New Kid In Town").
Her debut album, "The Deep End", will be released in January 2011 on Big Deal Records, and her song, "All I Have", was featured on Life Unexpected (2010) in Sept 2010 on the CW network.- IMDb mini biography by: Curtis Warner
- SpouseMark Vicente(? - present)
- Was a member of the controversial self-improvement group, NXIVM, with her friend, India Oxenberg.
- She spent one year as an au pair in Austria.
- She is fluent in German.
- She has one word of dialogue ("Hello") in Star Wars, épisode II : L'Attaque des clones (2002) and none in Star Wars, épisode III : La Revanche des Sith (2005).
- Friend of India Oxenberg.
- I feel really honored to be playing the woman who goes on to raise Luke Skywalker! I mean seriously what a fun thing to be able to say.
- I hadn't seen any of the Star Wars episodes apart from Episode I before I found out about the audition - and then I madly tried to learn about the films. I got them and watched them with my family. I loved them, maybe because of the excitement of the fact I might be involved in it. But my family loves Star Wars anyway, so I fed on their adrenaline and I love the movies now. They've got so much detail - I never realized. I'm still trying to learn all the characters." "I've always been interested in the performing arts, and I don't quite know where it came from. No one else in my family is really interested in it. I do have a fairly musical family, but I'm the one who pursued it. I started to write songs when I was 14, But I've always been singing something. It's in my blood.
- "I just had to get it into my head to do the work and not look around
- because it was not an amusement park. I wasn't a visitor. I had to
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