Kathy Troutt (born 14 September 1947) is an English-born model, actress, deep sea diver^{[clarification needed]} and dolphin trainer who moved to Australia in 1948.^{[citation needed]}

Diving career

At age 16 Kathy Troutt made the Guinness Book of Records for the deepest female deep sea scuba dive, breathing ordinary air to a depth of 320 feet (97.5 m)^{[clarification needed]} off Sydney Harbour with former Royal Australian Navy diver, Wally Reynolds.^[1] Kathy dived on Sydney Harbour shipwrecks in 1965.^[2]

Modeling and acting career

Sports clothes and glamour model throughout the 1960s, she appeared on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (as herself) as a visiting marine biologist.^{[clarification needed]} Troutt appeared in the documentary Mermaids in Paradise, released to television and cinemas in 1965 by Ben Cropp.^[3]

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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[4]

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.^[5]