Miss Cornish has been nominated in the Actress category at the Australian Cosmopolitan Fun, Fearless, Female Women of the Year Awards. Be sure to cast your vote for Abbie!

Your votes are in and these empowering and inspirational women have been nominated as finalists in our awards. Now, it’s up to you to choose the winner! All you have to do is choose your favourite nominee from the nine categories below (you must choose one finalist in each category for your vote to count). The winners will be announced at our glam awards night in Sydney on September 16. If you want your fun, fearless female to win, get voting…

Abbie Cornish
Rising star Abbie Cornish, 26, was recently in LA collecting an Australians in Film Breakthrough Award for her work. We loved her in Somersault, Candy and Stop-Loss.

On behalf of all of her fans, I’d like to wish Miss Cornish a very happy birthday! She turns 26-years old today. All the best, Abbie, we hope you have a fabulous day among your loved ones!

Edit: According to People, Abbie celebrated her birthday in Las Vegas with Ryan Phillippe. Sounds like she did indeed have a special day!

According to DailyMail, Abbie has signed on to the film version of Wuthering Heights! Natalie Portman and Sienna Miller were rumored for this at one point. Hopefully we’ll hear a confirmation from a more official source soon.

Fast-rising thespian Michael Fassbender is already signed to play the brooding Heathcliff, and Australian actress Abbie Cornish has agreed to play Cathy.

Also, Stop-Loss is now on Region 1 DVD! I have picked up the film and I will be making screencaptures as soon as possible.

Xavier Rudd, Torquay’s roots music superstar, and Hollywood starlet Abbie Cornish are Australia’s sexiest vegetarians.

The pair won their crowns in a fierce month-long battle among voters at PETAAsiaPacific.com for celebrities who exude passion and compassion.

Australian actor Abbie Cornish impressed more than boyfriend Ryan Phillippe on the set of her new film Stop-Loss.

The 25-year-old star of local films such as Somersault and Candy was director Kimberly Peirce’s first choice to play a Texan soldier’s girlfriend because of her duality – being “one of the guys” and, at the same time, the woman they all fantasise about.

Peirce said that combination of qualities was impossible to find in American starlets vying for the role.

“When we were writing the character we knew we needed a Texan girl who, if you got a flat tyre on your truck she’d go change it, if you needed a gun shot she’d shoot it, and if you got in trouble and you needed to be bailed out, she’d do it,” Peirce said.

“She was one of the guys, and yet she was totally a woman. She was the one they would all fantasise about.

“You don’t find that in American actresses – I mean you really don’t – so she was my top choice.”

… read on