From Details

Abbie Cornish is preoccupied with her tan. It’s a notably superficial concern for an actress who seems completely without vanity. In 2006’s Candy, she played a heroin addict with red-rimmed eyes and matted hair, and in her current film, Stop-Loss, she fought to forgo makeup altogether.

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From The Daily Telegraph

Sometimes it’s hard to reconcile the public image of Abbie Cornish with her Aussie farm-girl origins.

Watching her, all regal and corsetted, as the queen’s handmaiden in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, or reading about her reported part in the break-up of Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon, it’s tempting to think of her as a femme fatale who might care more about which designer label she’ll be wearing on the red carpet than how we treat animals.

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From News.com.au

Rising Aussie star Abbie Cornish has advice for those who question the history of Elizabeth: The Golden Age - go and see a documentary.

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From News.com.au

While Elizabeth newcomer Clive Owen adds hunk factor to the film, it is Newcastle farm girl Abbie Cornish who has big-name Hollywood directors talking.

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From The Sydney Morning Herald

Abbie Cornish finds her characters through divining the smallest of details. For 2004’s Somersault, her acclaimed breakthrough role, it was a matter of figuring out how Heidi, the haltingly hopeful teenage girl she played, would grasp a schooner of beer. But to play Elizabeth “Bess” Throckmorton, the favoured lady-in-waiting of Cate Blanchett’s Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, it was a far more difficult process of discovery.

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From The Courier-Mail

She’s the Australian Scarlett Johansson; the next Cate Blanchett or the next Nicole Kidman; an actor tipped to be more popular internationally than Naomi Watts.

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From The Times Style

Abbie Cornish smoulders as tinseltown’s hottest new talent. She tells our correspondent how it all came to pass

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From About.com / By Rebecca Murray

Abbie Cornish has become one of the most sought after young actresses in Hollywood. With her starring turn as Queen Elizabeth I's favorite lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Cornish really emerges as a force to be reckoned with.

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From Teen Hollywood

Seems that the first Queen Elizabeth had a lady-in-waiting named Bess Throckmorton who was younger, prettier and who was able to party with the royal courtiers while the frustrated Queen had to behave. In Elizabeth: The Golden Age, a sequel to 1998's Elizabeth, the luminous Cate Blanchett is again the virgin queen but Bess is played by pretty young Aussie actress Abbie Cornish. Abbie came from a farm in New South Wales to model as a 13-year-old then co-star in an Aussie soap at age 15. She played a sex-addicted teen in the racy film Somersault and co-stared with Heath Ledger in Candy, a movie about a drug-addicted young couple. You can see her next year in Stop Loss, the film that started all those rumors about her and actor Ryan Phillippe.

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From Coming Soon

Following in the footsteps of Nicole, Naomi and other great Australian actresses, 25-year-old beauty Abbie Cornish, Cate Blanchett’s co-star in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, might surprise those who see Shekhar Kapur’s historic epic, because few people will have seen the actress’ amazing performances in the Aussie dramas Somersault and Candy. (A few more people may have seen her in Ridley Scott’s 2005 comedy A Good Year but not too many more.)

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From CanMag.com

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is the story of Elizabeth I's reign, but many other characters get a chance to shine. Clive Owen makes Sir Walter Raleigh his own, and Abbie Cornish stands out as the queen's confidante, Bess. She serves the queen, but has her own personality.

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From Dark Horizons / By Paul Fischer

Australia's Abbie Cornish is having quite the year. The beautiful 25-year old has made inroads into Hollywood as both an actress and recent fodder for the tabloids.

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From AOL / By Angie Argabrite

Abbie Cornish isn't a household name in the States -- yet. The 26-year-old Aussie has already been nominated for and won several awards Down Under, for her roles as free-spirited Heidi in 'Somersault' and as free-spirited yet downward-spiraling 'Candy' in the druggie love story of the same name. In 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age,' she's Elizabeth Throckmorton, a favorite lady-in-waiting to Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth I who risks the wrath of her queen for the love of Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen). And yet you may know Cornish best for a role she won't play: the next Bond girl. She confirmed that she was never up for the part, and has never even been contacted by 'Bond' producers. What? A widespread internet rumor with zero basis in fact? We're shocked.

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From MoviesOnline / By Sheila Roberts

MoviesOnline sat down with Abbie Cornish at the Los Angeles press day for her new movie, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” directed by Shekhar Kapur from an original screenplay by William Nicholson ("Gladiator”) and Michael Hirst ("Elizabeth”). Reprising the roles they originated in seven-time Academy Award-nominated "Elizabeth,” Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush return for a gripping historical thriller laced with treachery and romance. Joining them in the epic is Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh, a dashing seafarer and newfound temptation for Elizabeth.

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From Premiere.com / By Deborah Day

Seeing as 25-year-old Australian beauty Abbie Cornish has, herself, been the center of a romantic entanglement (tabloids eagerly reported tales of her having been involved with pre-divorce Ryan Phillippe, her costar in the upcoming Stop Loss), taking on the role of Bess Throckmorton seems oddly appropriate. Elizabeth I's lady-in-waiting, Bess wins the heart of poet and adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh, then incurs the wrath of a jealous queen.

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From News.com.au

Rising Aussie star Abbie Cornish was shocked by the public hatred she faced when linked romantically to co-star Ryan Phillippe and blamed her for the break-up of his marriage to Reese Witherspoon.

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From Radio Free / By Michael J. Lee,

In the wake of its 1998 release, Elizabeth rocked the movie awards scene, scoring a slew of nominations across the board for both its performances and its myriad of technical achievements. Ultimately, Cate Blanchett walked away with several Best Actress recognitions for her role as the title ruler, including a Golden Globe and BAFTA Film Award, and sparked an international film career for herself in the process. Since then, she has starred in everything from independent features to epic blockbusters like the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

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From Men's Vogue

The Outback's latest export, Abbie Cornish, can milk a cow, rock a mike, and steal a scene.

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From The NY Times T Style / By Lynn Hirschberg

You made “Somersault” when you were 20 and became an instant sensation in your native Australia. Now you’re 25 and about to star in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” opposite Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen.

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From The Independent

Hollywood's latest hot property is more at ease on a ranch than the red carpet. But Abbie Cornish is having a ball just the same.

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From Vanity Fair

Age and occupation: 24, actor.
Provenance: Hunter Valley, Australia.

Rampant kidmania: Ever since her breakthrough performance in 2004's Somersault, Cornish has had to contend with the "Next Nicole" hype that accompanies any young woman who is beautiful, talented, and Australian. But with the pending releases of Neil Armfield's Candy (in which she stars opposite Aussie god Heath Ledger) and Ridley Scott's A Good Year (in which she stars opposite Aussie god Russell Crowe), maybe the hype is justified.

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From Interview

In Somersault, a tiny Australian movie from first-time director Gate Shortland, Abbie Cornish plays Heidi, a 16-year-old girl who, after clumsily trying to seduce her mother's boyfriend, leaves home on a journey of self-discovery that manages to cram every mistake that a woman can make with a man into a little less than two hours of vigorous sexual awakening. For Cornish, who has won an armful of Australian acting awards for her work in the film--and miraculously manages to keep her clothes on through most of it--avoiding the usual cliches of playing a young woman at the moment of her inglorious blossom proved the biggest challenge. "

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