Kathy Troutt


Kathy Troutt is a model, actor, deep sea diver and dolphin trainer who moved to Australia in 1948.

Diving career

At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the "Guinness Book of Records" for the longest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air for 320 feet off Sydney Harbour with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds. Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965

Modeling and acting career

Sports clothes and glamour model throughout the 1960s, she appeared on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo as a visiting marine biologist.
Troutt appeared in the documentary Mermaids in Paradise, released to television and cinemas in 1965 by Ben Cropp.

Dolphin training

She worked in pantomime London, England, where she trained dolphins for movies. She was spotted by a representative of director Mike Nichols, where she was to train a dolphin for the feature film The Day of the Dolphin.
Troutt was later hired for similar work for the feature film The Blue Lagoon, in which she also played the body double for Brooke Shields.
This was followed by work as a crew member on Return to the Blue Lagoon and several other feature films later produced in Australia and Asia.