Ashleigh Brewer (Gracie)

BRISBANE actor Ashleigh Brewer flew into Melbourne the week after graduating from school last year to scout for work.

The 18-year-old had a return flight booked, giving herself just three weeks to see whether she wanted to make a permanent move south.
But in a moment most actors would die for, she auditioned for and was offered an ongoing role in Neighbours as Kate Ramsay.
Her first appearance on screen in the role is tonight.
"It was straight after school and I thought, 'You know what, I'm just gonna do it. I'm just going to see what pops up'," the former Forest Lake College student said.
What popped up was the opportunity to reintroduce the Ramsay name to the long-running soap.
The Ramsays, after which the famed Ramsay St is named, haven't appeared in the show for more than a decade.
It eventuates, Brewer said, that the orphaned Kate Ramsay and her two siblings are related to Paul Robinson (Stefan Dennis): "So there's a bit of a family scandal going on in the street".
Brewer, who previously had guest roles in H2O: Just Add Water, Sleepover Club (when she was 12) and Blue Heelers, has settled quickly into the close knit "family" of Neighbours actors.
She now shares a house with former Gold Coast actor Margot Robbie, also 18, who plays Donna Freedman on the soap.