I grew up in a moderate sized town in northern NSW Australia.
After my parents split up, I lived with my mother who moved to Ballina, a nice place on the coast. That was my last year of high school: yr 12 senior year, we all turned 18 so getting to be adults.
In the year with me was a blond surfer dude, he was in a few of my classes. Over the next few years you'd see him as a model, then in a TV ad or 2. Then he was in a major Sydney based TV show = 1992-3. Then a few years later again he starts acting in Hollywood films.
Simon Baker.