Australian actor Krew Boylan returns from New York City to buy in Bronte
Actor Krew Boylan and her global equities trader husband Andrew Baud have bought in Bronte. They have spent $4.34 million on a 1910 garden oasis family home, settling just last month.
The 520sqm semi-detached property with four-bedroom Federation-era home was marketed as one of the original gully homes.
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It was sold by the McCallum family, who had owned the property with sandstone walled basement since paying $140,000 in 1984.
Its king-sized master bedroom comes with fireplace.
Bronte, which has 10 properties currently for sale, has a $3.4 million median prices.
Based on five years of sales, Bronte has seen a compound growth rate of 4 per cent for houses, according to realestate.com.au.
The couple have spent much of the past decade in New York, having apparently found Los Angeles “a little too self-conscious”, during which she studied at the Strasbourg Theatre Institute.
They were married in 2012 at the Billich Gallery, in The Rocks, followed by a party under the crystal chandeliers at the Country Trader in Waterloo.
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Wonthaggi-born Baud is with the global equities manager Antipodes Partners, which has a reputation of shorting over-hyped disrupters.
It is the first joint Sydney acquisition of the couple, who have been renting in Waverley. Boylan had sold her Somerset, Balmain apartment for $1,195,000 in 2016, doubling the $575,000 she paid in 2009.
After support roles, Boylan took centre stage in 2015 on the Schapelle Corby telemovie. She enjoyed roles in McLeod’s Daughters, All Saints, Wild Boys, A Place To Call Home, and the miniseries Molly, about the life of music legend Molly Meldrum, where she played his assistant Lynne Randell.
In 2010 she was pinpointed as the coming “it” actor after her role in the horror movie Primal.
Her forthcoming, long-awaited next project is Seriously Red, about a girl obsessed with Dolly Parton.
It is being produced by Dollhouse Pictures, the production company Boylan started with Rose Byrne, Shannon Murphy, Jessica Carrera and Gracie Otto.