Ashley Cheadle

Ashley Cheadle is an Australian surfer who also became known as an actress. She grew up in a surfing family: her father had once surfed competitively and her older brother, Luke Cheadle, is a professional surfer. Her own professional surfing was sponsored by the surf-wear company Billabong, which promoted her as a member of its Billabong Girls team, and she took part in tournaments and in special events designed to build public interest in surfing. That association led to a featured role in the 2006 Billabong-sponsored surf film Free as a Dog. She then moved into acting, appearing in the Australian television series Blue Water High and in the Hollywood film Fool's Gold (2008), and in April 2011 she joined the cast of the soap opera Home and Away as the character Miranda Jacobs.