Coming to America: Isabel Lucas...

A modeling agent noticed Isabel Lucas in the middle of a Melbourne, Australia, farmer’s market when she was just 12 years old. Though it turned out she had no interest in the catwalk, she did end up winning a part in the long-running Aussie soap opera Home and Away, which also launched the careers of Naomi Watts, Heath Ledger and Guy Pearce. This summer, the 24-year-old Lucas tackles an American accent to play the Princeton astronomy-major girlfriend of Shia LaBeouf in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Here, she discusses the film, out Wednesday, as well as shooting in director Michael Bay’s car and backpacking through Europe.

PROVENANCE: Her dad is Australian and her mom is Swiss — and Lucas speaks French and German as well as English. She divides her time between her native Melbourne and Los Angeles.

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Isabel Lucas’ Oz Visit A Waste...

She came home to Sydney to promote the new Transformers movie but Isabel Lucas’s over-zealous US publicist meant the trip was largely wasted.

Photographers were not only barred from any interviews she conducted, they were not allowed at Tuesday night’s premiere in Bondi Junction.

It’s understood Lucas was happy to pose – and did for an old paparazzo friend who contacted her directly.

Instead of vivid photos of Lucas at the launch, her US publicist, who flew back to LA with her charge yesterday, issued this bland handout photograph.

While the Westfield cinema complex has held many red carpet affairs, a Paramount spokeswoman yesterday said it was “too small” to stage one. It’s understood while Paramount wanted to open the event to photographers, the unnamed US publicist refused.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think the image is bland! She looks stunning! I just hate we don’t get some images from the Sydney premieres and stuff.

“It’s been a whirlwind.” –...

Pouting and posing in front of a wall of camera lenses at the world premiere of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Isabel Lucas looks every bit the movie star.

The 24-year-old was tanned and statuesque in a white Dior mini and Paspaley Pearl earrings as she mixed with Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf and Josh Duhamel at the red carpet event in Tokyo, Japan on Monday.

But start talking to the former Home and Away beach babe and you discover a softly spoken actress would rather be hiking in the Malibu canyons near her Los Angeles home than getting glammed up for a movie premiere.

It is Lucas’ first one and admits it’s overwhelming.

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Transformers Star Hails Aussie Offsider...

Shia LaBeouf admits he’s the luckiest guy in the world after kissing both US star Megan Fox and Aussie actress Isabel Lucas in the latest Transformers movie.

But the 22-year-old actor wisely opted not to disclose which kiss was better at a news conference for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in Tokyo on Tuesday.

“Oh Christ, thank you, I appreciate that question,” deadpanned LaBeouf, who was flanked on stage by the two beauties.

“It’s incomparable, they are both specimens cut out of stone.

“I’m the luckiest dude in the world clearly. Anything beyond these answers and I start getting in trouble.”

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Isabel Lucas Steps Out for Premiere...

The bright lights of Tokyo are a long way from Summer Bay for former Home and Away starlet Isabel Lucas.

Lucas on Monday stepped onto the international stage with Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel at the world premiere of Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen in the Japanese capital.

In the film, out on June 24 in Australia, LaBeouf reprises the role of Sam Witwicky, the human caught in the war between autobots and decepticons, and Fox returns as his girlfriend Mikaela.

Lucas plays Alice, a girl Sam meets at college.

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Glamour – July 2009...

Wow, us Isabel fans are truly getting spoiled right now! Izzie is featured in the July 2009 issue of Glamour magazine with a photoshoot that is probably my favorite to date! So gorgeous!

First we enlisted the star of this summer’s Transformers sequel, Isabel Lucas, to show off the quickest new styles. Then we asked staffers to try them—with timers—to make sure they really are that fast. All we can say is, believe the speed!

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Isabel in Details...

Isabel Lucas is featured – assumably – in the new issue of GQ magazine with a stunning new photoshoot! The images are available in the gallery. Continue reading for her interesting article.

Update: It’s the June/July issue of Details!

The alluring Aussie is a passionate animal-rights activist who writes herself notes on her body. So yes, there is more to her than meets the eye

Kakadu, it turns out, is an Aboriginal community where Lucas lived for a year during her seminomadic, bohemian childhood. “My best friend was Aboriginal,” Lucas says. “She taught me about ‘bush tucker’—the food of the land, the different things you could eat if you got lost in the bush, like grasses and berries. There’s this tree called the billygoat plum—the fruit is quite nice. It’d be a whole different story here. I don’t recognize any of these plants,” she adds, surveying the local foliage.

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Back to School for Isabel Lucas...

Rising Hollywood starlet Isabel Lucas returned home to the Far North this week for rest, relaxation and to say thanks to her former school.

The Transformers 2 star, who shot to fame on Australian soap drama Home and Away, is filming an Australian movie in Melbourne and decided to use a five day break in her schedule to come to Cairns and visit family.

But Lucas yesterday found time to return to St Monica’s College, the school where she spent most of her high school years, to personally thank students who earlier this year staged a fundraising dance to benefit an orphanage in India that she sponsors.

Lucas wrote to the school’s deputy principal Terry Power late last year asking for support and this year’s student council decided to act, raising $2000 for the orphanage, which cares for and educates children who have been affected by leprosy.

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