Celebrity crush: Teresa Palmer

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Here are the first of three celebrity crush entries from the British Commonwealth in honor of Boxing Day.

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Name: Teresa Palmer (images | Web site | Twitter)
Hometown: Adelaide, Australia, according to her Wikipedia profile.
Best Known For: Teresa is a film actress exclusively, thus far. She's done a mixture of comedy and action roles: Take Me Home Tonight and Bedtime Stories in the former category, The Sorcerer's Apprentice and I Am Number Four (also featuring fellow celebrity crush Dianna Agron) in the latter. Upcoming is Warm Bodies, which Wikipedia calls a zombie love story.

(Sweet Buddha on a bicycle, will the zombie fad go the hell away already?)

She's also ambitious, working in a production capacity on a documentary about happiness, according to her IMDB profile.
Humble Beginnings: She's still pretty early in her career. Other roles include the horror films The Grudge 2 (with fellow crush Amber Tamblyn), Wolf Creek, and Restraint, plus the indie dramas 2:37 and December Boys (the latter opposite Daniel Radcliffe).
Why Ye Olde Podcaster Likes Her: She performed admirably as a bad-ass alien warrior in I Am Number Four -- including doing some of her own stunts, apparently -- and was winsome as hell in Take Me Home Tonight. The passing resemblance to Anna Kournikova doesn't hurt matters, either.

Production Credits: Untitled documentary on happiness (filming for 2012) (Amazon | iTunes)
Film and TV-movie Credits: Warm Bodies (2012, post-production) (Amazon | iTunes) * AWOL (2012, post-production) (Amazon | iTunes) * Wish You Were Here (2012, completed) (Amazon | iTunes) * Quirky Girl (2011 short) (Amazon | iTunes) * Bear (2011 short) (Amazon | iTunes) * Take Me Home Tonight (Amazon | iTunes) * I Am Number Four (Amazon | iTunes) * The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Amazon | iTunes) * Bedtime Stories (2008) (Amazon | iTunes) * Restraint (2008) (Amazon | iTunes) * December Boys (2007) (Amazon | iTunes) * The Grudge 2 (Amazon | iTunes) * 2:37 (Amazon | iTunes) * Wolf Creek (2005) (Amazon | iTunes)