MOVIES PLAY STEPHANY’S HOMECOMING

Aussie sci- fi action film Occupation is a homecoming in more ways than one for Stephany Jacobsen.

The Hong Kong- born actor grew up in Australia but moved to the US in 2007 when she got her big break in Battlestar Galactica: Razor.

She’s lived there ever since and enjoyed a varied career with roles in Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles and Melrose Place, Revenge and guest spots on NCIS and Two and a Half Men.

Occupation is her first Aussie role in more than a decade. “I did Home and Away when I was very, very young. Then I did Headland, but apart from that I haven’t done anything in Australia,” she says. “In some ways Occupation felt like my first taste of working in Australia.”

The film, which was shot over six weeks on the Gold Coast last year, is also Jacobsen’s return to the sci- fi genre.

“When I went over to LA I started off doing sci- fi and my career segued in to other stuff, which I didn’t dislike but it just was not the same for me in terms of the depth of the characters I was able to play,” she says. Occupation follows a group of Aussies who learn they are some of the only survivors of a worldwide alien invasion. They form a homegrown army to fight back against the vastly superior enemy forces.

Occupation stars New Zealand screen veteran Temuera Morrison, recent Logie winner Jacqueline McKenzie, Home and Away alumni Dan Ewing and Rhiannon Fish and The Family Law’s Trystan Go.