NOT content with being an actor on the rise, Cronulla's Tahyna Tozzi has launched a career as a film producer.
Tozzi, 22, said she had started Avakea Productions in Los Angeles with fellow Australian starlets Teresa Palmer and Nathalie Kelley.
"We are currently working on a film and looking to go into production next year," she said.
The film is a dark, psychological crime thriller set in Sydney in the 1970s.
Tozzi makes her film debut in Beautiful, an Australian drama released today that has her flirtatious character sunbaking in the rain.
"It was so cold that particular day - I remember walking on to set seeing everyone in parkas and ugg boots and here I am in a bathing suit about to be drenched by a ginormous hose."
Tozzi, a graduate of Blue Water High with a role in the coming X-Men Origins: Wolverine, said she was slowly adjusting to life in LA, where she has been based for a year.
"I have managed to find little hobbies and things to do to keep me away from being absorbed by glitz of this town," she said.