Jannelle Corlass-Brown

Biography: The Corlass-Browns are a dancing family. Janelle has been learning dance for ten years, taking lessons in classical, tap, jazz and song and dance. Her older sister Gemma is now a student at the Australian Ballet School and Janelle's mother was a Channel 9 dancer for nine years and before that was with the Channel 9 Tarax Show.

Janelle moved into acting when she won the role of Brigitta von Trap in the highly successful The Sound of Music stage production and while still with that show, she auditioned and was offered the role of Ashley in the first series of The Saddle Club. A student at Templestowe College, Janelle's best subjects are Maths, English and Social Science. She has developed a love of horseriding since she started in The Saddle Club and likes roller blading, athletics, gymnastics and roller-skating. Janelle also plays clarinet. After a couple of years of begging for a pet and promising to look after it, she has now bought with her own money a 2 year old whiteThe Corlass-Browns are a dancing family. Janelle has been learning dance for ten years, taking lessons in classical, tap, jazz and song and dance. Her older sister Gemma is now a student at the Australian Ballet School and Janelle's mother was a Channel 9 dancer for nine years and before that was with the Channel 9 Tarax Show.

Janelle moved into acting when she won the role of Brigitta von Trap in the highly successful The Sound of Music stage production and while still with that show, she auditioned and was offered the role of Ashley in the first series of The Saddle Club.

A student at Templestowe College, Janelle's best subjects are Maths, English and Social Science. She has developed a love of horseriding since she started in The Saddle Club and likes roller blading, athletics, gymnastics and roller-skating. Janelle also plays clarinet. After a couple of years of begging for a pet and promising to look after it, she has now bought with her own money a 2 year old white Bishon friese called Cupid. "He is white and fluffy. When he was a puppy he was so cute and he still is, even now that he is older. I walk him, feed him and love him to bits. He has a real sparkle in his eye that makes you want to cuddle him," she enthuses.

Janelle is not averse to a bit of retail therapy and likes to socialize and shop with her friends. "I like to shop for clothes, usually very colorful and I like trendy and groovy things," Janelle admits. She still competes in dancing competitions, having won over the years a swag of prizes in dance festivals, including the Aggregate Winner 6years/under 9 at the Southern Dance Festival and Aggregate winner in the under 6's at the Heidelberg Dance Festival.

Her other credits include Phoenix on Tour for the Phoenix Theatre Company and in television she appeared in the comedy television series Big Girls Blouse. She has been a singer/dancer on Carols by Candlelight, (Channel 9) for the last seven years, a performance she has really enjoyed. Janelle aspires to be an actress when she leaves school but Architecture is also a great love; she likes to design houses and buildings in her spare time. "Design is something I am passionate about, as well as singing, dancing and acting," Janelle tells us.… Expand