After a teenaged stint on The Saddle Club, Dee felt she was missing out. Now based in the US, she’s starring in a hit show as a character whose bravery inspires her
For Aisha Dee, even idyllic places are shaped by codes that dictate who belongs. When she was growing up on Australia’s Gold Coast, strangers would stop her because of how she looked. She’s never forgotten it.
“1990s Gold Coast was the heyday of Movie World and Dreamworld and honestly it was a very special place to grow up,” says the actor, who has an Anglo Australian mother and African American father. “But I didn’t see myself anywhere. If I was walking down the street with my mum, people would ask if I was lost. For a lack of a better term, you feel a bit like a black sheep.”
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