{"id":862539,"date":"2026-08-20T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862539\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:18:13","slug":"rhiannon-fish-interview-how-she-went-from-hollywood-rejections-to-rom-com-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/862539\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhiannon Fish interview: how she went from Hollywood rejections to rom-com queen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: Like many Australian actors<\/a> before her, Rhiannon Fish remembered being told that real success was only possible under the bright lights of Hollywood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So the 35-year-old followed the well-trodden path to Los Angeles<\/a> \u2013 only to realise she\u2019d made a mistake.<\/p>\n

\"Rhiannon<\/p>\n

Rhiannon Fish is an Aussie rom-com queen thanks to the Hallmark Channel.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Fish began her career with a recurring role on Neighbours<\/a> in 2003 and later spent three years starring as April Scott on rival soap Home and Away.<\/p>\n

After leaving Summer Bay<\/a>, Fish moved halfway around the world in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no debate, that\u2019s what you had to do,\u201d she told nine.com.au. \u201cSo I did, and then was immediately very, very lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was only after she had left home that Fish stopped and \u201cchecked in with herself\u201d.<\/p>\n

Once she did, she realised she wasn\u2019t happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe grind of auditioning and being told \u2018no\u2019, sometimes up to three, four times a day, and \u2018no\u2019 for reasons that can be very hurtful, it knocked me down,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I then, quote-unquote, \u2018Took a break.\u2019 It\u2019s not like I was offered anything, so I wasn\u2019t taking a break from anything, but I did. I stepped back from the industry<\/a>, I told my managers at the time, \u2018I need to heal some stuff in myself, I think.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Fish then moved again, this time to Canada, where she was born and has extended family.<\/p>\n

There, she auditioned for a \u201cvery, very small part\u201d in a 2020 Hallmark movie, got the role and, as they say, the rest is history.<\/p>\n

\"SYDNEY,<\/p>\n

Fish, pictured in 2013, made her start on Aussie soaps including Neighbours and Home and Away.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Six years on, Fish is a certified rom-com queen, leading up to six TV films a year for the made-for-TV movie channel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really, finally, for the first time in a long time feel like I\u2019ve found my stride and that I\u2019m in a pocket that feels really good both to me personally and professionally,\u201d Fish said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an often chaotic world of rapid turnarounds on shoots across the world. They can film entire movies in two weeks, often with little notice.<\/p>\n

In that sense, her Australian TV past provided an incredible training ground.<\/p>\n

\"Rhiannon<\/p>\n

Fish\u2019s films have taken her everywhere from Queensland to Machu Picchu.\u00a0Hallmark Channel<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re turning them out super, super quickly,\u201d Fish said of soaps.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means when I came into this movie-for-television Hallmark world, and we\u2019re making feature-length films sometimes in 12 days, to me, it was easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Australia you show up, you know your dialogue and if you don\u2019t know it, somebody else is going to step up and take your spot. You can\u2019t mess around. So, it has been invaluable what I learnt growing up on screen in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fish has been welcomed by Hallmark\u2019s large, passionate fan base and has discovered how much these types of films can touch people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met hospice nurses and people that are doing jobs that I could never in my wildest dreams fathom,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll say, \u2018Thank you for what you guys do,\u2019 and it\u2019s like, the fact that we get to do anything that on any level serves you \u2013 these people that are doing quite literally the Lord\u2019s work \u2013 what a gift!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Now, she can\u2019t imagine her career in any other way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to dig my heels in and continue to grow with the network,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the best job in the world, really.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Like many Australian actors before her, Rhiannon Fish remembered being told that real success was only possible…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-862539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}