Tracie Filmer

Tracie was born a 'Filmer' and married a 'Cannon' so it was her destiny to come out firing in front of a camera. Legit Story. Singapore-born Filmer struggled with her cultural identity as a migrant child in Melbourne in the early 80's. With an Anglo-Indian (English-Indian) father and a Chinese mother, Tracie was too caramel to be Eurasian and too brown for an Aussie. She is a walking channel SBS combination special - a Chindian with white floaty bits. In Primary School, Tracie loved reading out aloud in class. It was an opportunity to exaggerate, animate and characterise her own version of the 'Serpent' in the book of Genesis; regardless if it was deemed inappropriate to sound like 'Miss Piggy'. The story of David and Goliath was also...... oh never mind. This however, was the beginning (genesis) of her story telling itch. Growing up, she hardly saw true representation of her kind on TV. This was something that stirred her curiosity and at the time, assumed that her kind wasn't mean