Teresa Palmer

Teresa Mary Palmer (born 26 February 1986) is an Australian actress, writer, producer and model. Palmer made her film debut in 2006, when she appeared in the suicide drama 2:37. In 2013, she played the leading role in the zombie romantic comedy Warm Bodies; later on, Palmer portrayed the fictional character of Rebecca in the 2016 supernatural horror film Lights Out. She has also appeared in films such as December Boys, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, I Am Number Four, Take Me Home Tonight, Love and Honor, The Ever After (which she co-wrote and co-produced with her husband, Mark Webber), Kill Me Three Times, the 2015 remake of Point Break, Triple 9, The Choice, and the Mel Gibson-directed war film Hacksaw Ridge. 2Early life Palmer was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. She is the only child of Kevin Palmer, an investor, and Paula Sanders, a former nurse and missionary. Her parents divorced in 1989 when she was three. She has a stepmother, Kaaren Palmer, as well as two half-sisters and two stepbrothers, who lived with her father. Palmer stated to Interview that she "came from rather humble beginnings"; she lived in public housing with her mother, and grew up on her father's farm in the Adelaide Hills. Palmer was named after Mother Teresa by her mother, and has stated that she had a "tough upbringing" due to her mother's manic depressio