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    Mar 05, 2022 5 minutes
    By Jane Albert.
    STYLING HARRIET CRAWFORD PHOTOGRAPH TED MIN HAIR: MADISON VOLOSHIN MAKE-UP: JOEL BABICCI

    Jillian Nguyen is the sort of woman you want on your team. Early last year the Melbourne actor read the script for the upcoming ABC TV series Barons , a dramatisation of the 1970s mateshipturned-bitter-rivalry behind the founding of billion-dollar surf brands Billabong and Quicksilver. Key to the series is the lead role of Tracy, wife to Sean Keenan’s ‘Trotter’, a fictional young couple inspired by Billabong founders Gordon and Rena Merchant.

    Nguyen was immediately drawn to the role of this smart, creative woman. There was just one problem. “I thought Tracy would have to be blonde, like the Elle Macpherson idea of Australia,” says Nguyen. Not only is Nguyen not blonde, she is Vietnamese-Australian of Chinese heritage,

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