Geraldine Hakewill

Geraldine Hakewill is an Australian actress, singer, and songwriter. She is known for playing Chelsea Babbage, the lead role, in the 2016 Australian TV series Wanted and Peregrine Fisher in Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries. Hakewill was born in Paris, where her family was living temporarily while her father, Peter, a general practitioner, was working in tropical disease management. At nine months old, her family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, then to Chennai in south India so that her parents could practice meditation in an ashram; her mother Elizabeth continues to teach meditation. Hakewill grew up in Sydney from age four with her younger brother, Lucas. When she was 14 years old her parents divorced and her father remarried, giving her two step-siblings and two half-siblings. Hakewill graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.