Ada Nicodemou

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Recent Role:
Guest Judge on Beauty and the Geek Australia
Gender:
Female
Born:
5-14-1977
Birthplace:
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birth Name:
Ada Nicodemou
Ada Nicodemou is an Australian television actress best known for her role as Leah Patterson on the long-running soap, Home and Away.

As a kid, Ada went through phases but says that she always wanted to be famous and successful in whatever she did.

She joined the 'Johnny Young Talent School' and a dance show group called 'Kids Unlimited' which eventually led her to hiring an agent.

Her first big television audition at age 13 was ironically for a part on Home and Away. Despite losing out on the role to Laura Vasquez, she did some





… More 'extra' work on the show, which gave her the opportunity to learn about the behind-the-scenes workings of a television series.

'I remember watching Home and Away and I really wanted to join the show. Mum drove me to the auditions and there were so many girls there. I did go for a role, but missed out. I was very happy for Laura but do remember having to sit behind her in the classroom as an extra and wishing I was in her spot. So now that I am here, I really feel like I have gone the full circle and am back where I belong,' she says.

At 15, she auditioned for Heartbreak High and in March of the following year, when she was about to turn 16, they called her in for a 12 week guest stint. This short stint turned into a three year role where she played a character called Katarina.

During this time, Ada also had a role on Police Rescue, as she had agreed take up a role on the show before she was asked to become a regular on Heartbreak High.

Ada promised herself, when taking up the role on Heartbreak High, that she would complete her studies. Ada decided to study by correspondence in her last year of High School (Year 12), and balanced the two - studying scripts with studying for her final exams.

Ada deferred her tertiary studies for a year whilst she finished Heartbreak High. At 19, Ada studied Tourism at TAFE, where she had to organise events for clients and product placement.

In July 1999, at 21 years of age, she returned to television and took up the role as Fiona in Breakers. She then took a short break from the show to do a cameo role in the film The Matrix starring Keanu Reaves. In late 1999, she flew up to the Gold Coast to take up a role in the American television show Beast Masters, where she played a water nymph.

After that role, she joined Home and Away, which she was really looking forward to. 'I was basically making up for lost time, I have wanted to be apart of this production for a long time and I love being with the show,' she says.

Ada plays Leah Poulos, the Australian born daughter of Greek parents. Leah is proud of her heritage and devoted to her family. Since finishing school she has worked in her father's restaurant and developed into an accomplished chef. Leah is passionate about life and she will cry at the smallest injustice in life and boy can she talk! But she is also a good listener and will always provide a shoulder to lean on.

Leah came to Summer Bay alone and has nowhere else to go. She falls for Vinnie (Ryan Kwanten) who she tames, after being known as a ladies man. Viewers watched the wedding of the year between Vinnie and Leah and then celebrated with them as the birth of baby VJ into the world and cried with her when Vinnie went to Jail, paying for his father's crime of fraud. Now they watch her bringing up baby VJ on his own and dealing with the fact that he is deaf.

'I think she is very sweet and funny. She comes from a very strict Greek family and has a great set of morals that I think she has instilled in Vinnie as well. I really enjoy playing Leah because I can understand her thought processes,' she says.

Ada lives at home with her family which consists of her mum and younger brother. In her spare time she likes going to the movies and spending time with friends, dancing and keeping fit by enjoying the great outdoors and walking everywhere. One thing that does distinguish her from her character is that she not a cook. 'I am about the worst cook in the world. Mum has always done the cooking and she is brilliant so I have always left it up to her, but hopefully I may pick up a couple of tips through Leah.' She says.

To top it all off, Ada was nominated for the highest achievement in an actor's career - a Gold Logie at the TV Week Logie Awards last year and was nominated once again this year.

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    10 Perfect
    Ada nicodemou ( Leah ) hide show

    Ada nicodemou has always been hottt as, i hope she never goes off tv. i would like to see her do some modelling or something like that, i remember seeing her when i was younger on tv and to this day she still looks the same, its like she doesnt age at all, we cant say that for sonia todd ( gina ) she use to be hot but now omg, she aged so much. as for Ada nicodemou, i hope she has a long and great career on tv, otherwise she will be missed by alot of people.. laterz

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    dsh79 Added Jun 17, 2010 All my reviews
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    10 Perfect
    I really liked you when you were on Home and Away because I thought you had a cute nobby nose. hide show

    I am a big fan of yours. I have watched and taped every episode with you as Leah Patterson in Home and Away from 2000 onwards.

    I am living in a residential house because I have Aspergers Syndrome, which means I get stuck on magpies, I have been watching Home and Away with family and friends.

    I would like to meet you for a cake and a hot chocolate one day.

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    matthew_trompf Added Oct 7, 2006 All my reviews
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    10 Perfect
    I really like on Home and Away because I think you have a cute nobby nose. hide show

    I am still a big fan of yours. I have watched and taped every episode with you as Leah Baker in Home and Away.

    I would really much appreciate it if you would send me an autograph of yourself so I could put it beside my bed.

    Also I would like to meet you for a cake and a coffee one day.

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    wtrompf Added Oct 8, 2005 All my reviews
 

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