Born in Sydney, Australia, 1976 to Australian father Bill Mason and Finnish mother Marja-Leena Malinen, Felicity's interests led to acting when she first performed at Pymble Theater, Sydney as the sole child actress of the production "McCarthur House" at age 10.She grew up in a family of enthusiastic amateur theater actors. Her mother, father, aunt, uncle and grandparents all performed in various productions, with her mother Leena also co-writing and directing a show.After studying Fine Art at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, Felicity took on a career as a Fine Artist, exhibiting her paintings in various Brisbane cafes, restaurants and galleries.To further fund her career as an artist, Felicity joined an acting agency and soon found herself appearing in numerous TVCs. This led to several short drama courses and in 1999 Felicity joined The Actors' Workshop (a private drama school) where she graduated with an associate diploma of acting. Further to her tuition, she completed an intensive screen acting course at the prestigious NIDA university, Sydney New South Wales. NIDA is internationally recognised as a dynamic and innovative school with an intensive and rigorous curriculum whose past graduates include Russel Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett and Mel Gibson. To date Felicity's body of work includes film, theater, TV, musicals, documentaries, corporate and music videos, cartoon voice characterization, numerous TVCs and short films. Undead (2003) is her first lead role in a feature film. Shortly after "Undead" finished shooting, she worked on another feature playing "Manisha" in an Indian Bollywood production entitled "Hollywood", where she played her second lead. Felicity was the first Australian actress to play the lead in a Bollywood film, and was required to act and sing in the Indian dialect Kannada as well as perform numerous choreographed dance routines. Filming entailed a month of travel across the east coast of Australia and a month of studio filming in Bangalore, India. High media attention was involved with this venture and she undertook her first international press conference to over 30 journalists during a lunchtime break whilst filming in Bangalore. Recently she completed the lead role in a musical theatre production entitled "The Shoemaker and the Elves", where she played the evil lead character Silver Sequin (reminiscent of Cruella De Ville - "101 Dalmatians"). In the musical Felicity sang three solo cabaret tunes and performed various choreographed dances. She has also provided the voice for a hilarious upcoming Australian cartoon entitled "Team Trashe", playing the lead character "Audrey (the activist)".In her spare time, Felicity still has a passion for artwork and she continues to paint, sell and exhibit her artwork periodically. She also coordinates an annual art event for The Cerebral Palsy league charity organization entitled "Art for Art's Sake".
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