Education
Piesse attended a Rudolf Steiner School in Australia where she developed a love for the performing arts and honed her skills as a singer/songwriter.
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She also had recurring roles on Blue Heelers, Horace and Tina, Stingers, and Last Manitoba Standing. Piesse was cast as Donna in High Flyers when she was 15. She learned the trapeze and Spanish web for the role and took six months off school for the shoot.
She then went on to play Alicia in Horace and Tina, had a recurring role in Stingers, and guest starred in Blue Heelers and Last Manitoba Standing.
In 2005, Piesse played Sharona in Attack of the Sabretooth, which was directed by George T. Miller and shot in Fiji. In January 2011, Piesse completed shooting her scenes for the romantic comedy, Love Eterne.
She plays Sidonia, a psychic, mentor and confidant to the female lead, Medina, played by Melissa Navia. Her song, "There for Maine" is featured in lieutenant
lieutenant was an official selection at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival (20 November 2011) and NewFilmmakers New York Annual Christmas Show (13 December 2011).
Piesse met Grammy-winning music producer Val Garay when she first arrived in Los Los Angeles He introduced her to several songwriters including Jack Tempchin, Eric Kaz, Bonnie Hayes, and Juris Doctor Souther, who she co-wrote some of the songs for her debut album The Deep End with. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, and will be released in January 2011 on Big Deal Records.
Piesse"s song "All I Have" was featured in two episodes of the CW television series Life Unexpected in 2010.
Another one of her songs, "There for Maine", is featured in the romantic comedy, Love Eterne.
Achievements
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Between 2000 and 2002, Bonnie won the "Ranges Songsmith Award" and "Apollo Bay Young Performers Competition" for songs she"d written and she was one of only a handful of VCE performing arts students from around Victoria to be selected to perform at Hamer Hall as part of the 2002 "Season of Excellence". After completing its film festival run, Love Eterne has won awards at the Los Angeles Movie Awards, Best Shorts Competition and The Accolade Competition. Bonnie recorded "Bittersweet European Parliament" with Producer Emile Kelman and her song "Ariella" won the Singer Songwriter Category of the United Kingdom Songwriting Contest in 2013, alongside Lisa Nelson for her song, "Butterfly.".
