Teresa Palmer Movies and Career Information

Teresa Palmer (born 26 February 1986) is an Australian actress. She made her film debut in the suicide drama 2:37. Palmer was seen in The Grudge 2 in 2006, in December Boys, alongside Daniel Radcliffe, and in the 2008 children's fantasy Bedtime Stories, with Adam Sandler. She appears in the 2010 film The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. Her upcoming films include Take Me Home Tonight, playing Topher Grace's love interest, and a turn as an alien in the sci-fi film I Am Number Four. Palmer was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the only child of Kevin Palmer, an investor, and Paula Sanders, a former nurse. She has a stepmother, Kaaren Palmer, as well as two half-sisters and two stepbrothers, who lived with her father. Her parents divorced when she was three. Pamler stated to Interview that she "came from rather humble beginnings"; she lived in public housing with her mother, and grew up on her father's farm in Adelaide Hills. Palmer has stated that she had a "tough upbringing" due to her mother's manic depression. Palmer was a student at Mercedes College, a Catholic day school, and won a local casting audition, "Search for a Movie Star", in