Natalie Abbott, 28
‘I HOPE ONLY TO GET BETTER’
As ambitious pastry chef Diana on the sharp ABC comedy Aftertaste, Abbott tossed salads, cake batter and barbed words at Easton West, her haughty and humbled chef and uncle, played by Erik Thomson (above, right). How did she find the role? Delicious. “It was my TV debut and I learned so much from some of the best actors and producers in Australia,” she tells WHO.
The Sydney-based Abbott, who studied at the Australian Institute of Music, first pulled focus when her lead turn as Muriel Heslop in the 2019 national tour of Muriel’s Wedding the Musical led to a Helpmann Award nomination. Now, she is filming a major part in Rebel Wilson’s directorial film debut, musical comedy The Deb. “She continues to come back and tell
