"I Love You Too" - Singapour

WHO'S THAT GIRL?

This statuesque 1.76m-tall 28-year-old of Polish descent hails from Australia and is now based in Los Angeles.

WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HER

On the small screen as sexy butt-kicking CIA agent Sarah Walker in the action-comedy TV series Chuck.

WHY HER

She didn't earn her nickname 'Starhotski' from her Chuck castmates for nothing. She is lean and muscular, yet feminine with all the right curves.

A theatre graduate from the University of Western Sydney, Strahovski made her acting debut on Australian TV in 2004 and landed the part of Sarah Walker three years later.

It's an achievement that she made an impression in Hollywood even before finding fame in her native country.

WHAT'S NEW

Strahovski returns to her roots for the romantic comedy I Love You Too, which opens here today.

She plays Alice, an expatriate from London who leaves Jim, her boyfriend of three years, (Brendan Cowell) when he can't even tell her that he loves her.

QUOTED

ON TRADING IN HER SPY GEAR FOR A NORMAL ROLE

'I'm used to working 75-hour weeks for Chuck. To be in I Love You Too is a great change of pace from being Sarah Walker.

Alice is very normal, has a normal job and wants to meet the right guy and have a family.'

ON BEING IN THE LIMELIGHT

'You don't think about getting attention when you go to acting school. So many people just rock up to Hollywood thinking they'll give it a go. If you want to be an actor, I think you should put your heart into it and study it.

All the publicity, red carpet - it's (just) part of the job.'

ON BEING LABELLED AS A GEEK'S SEX SYMBOL

' I got to the States and they put in four-inch high heels and I didn't know how to walk in them. I love camping. I like sitting in the dirt. I like wearing jeans and T-shirts.'