LOS ANGELES — Australian actors and Hollywood tend toward mutual admiration, with the gangbuster careers of Cate Blanchett and Hugh Jackman, among others, as evidence.
So it’s understandable that Marta Dusseldorp, a leading TV star down under, has decided to give America a try. Or a second try, to be accurate. She briefly came here as a novice actor two decades ago, but couldn’t afford to pursue stage work in New York and found the LA industry challenging for a young outsider.