Abbie Cornish is an Australian actress. Her career began at the age of 13, when she began taking jobs as a model, and in 1999, Cornish was awarded the Australian Film Institute Young Actor's Award for her role in the ABC's television show Wildside and was offered her first role in a feature film, The Monkey's Mask. She is best known for her award-winning lead performance in 2004's Somersault, and for her role as Fanny Brawne in Bright Star and her appearance as Sweet Pea in Sucker Punch. She plays Clara Murphy in the 2014 version of RoboCop. She was romantically linked to actor Ryan Phillippe during his highly publicized divorce from Reese Witherspoon, but there relationship ended in 2010.