On the left is former Australia P.M. Julia Gillard while on the right is actress Lisa Pelikan.
Julia Eileen Gillard was born on 29 September 1961 in Barry, Wales, United Kingdom. She is a former Australian politician who was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013, as leader of the Australian Labor Party. She was previously the 13th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, and held the cabinet positions of Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion from 2007 to 2010. Julia Gillard was the first and to date only woman to hold the positions of deputy prime minister, prime minister and leader of a major party in Australia. Julia Gillard born in Barry, Wales, in the U.K., migrated with her family to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1966. She attended Mitcham Demonstration School and Unley High School. Subsequently, Julia Gillard studied at the University of Adelaide, but cut short her courses to move to Melbourne, Victoria, in 1982, where she worked with the Australian Union of Students and was the organisation’s president from 1983 to 1984. She later graduated from the University of Melbourne, with a Bachelor of Laws degree (1986) and a Bachelor of Arts degree (1989). In 1987, she joined the law firm Slater & Gordon and became a partner in 1990, specialising in industrial law. A departure from the law firm in 1996 saw Julia Gillard serve as chief of staff to the Leader of the Opposition in Victoria John Brumby, which preceded her own entry into federal politics. Julia Gillard was first elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 1998 federal election for the seat of Lalor. Following the 2001 federal election, she was elected to the Shadow Cabinet and was given the portfolio of Population and Immigration. In 2003, she took on the responsibility for both Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs and Health. In December 2006, when Kevin Rudd was elected as Labor Leader and became Leader of the Opposition, Julia Gillard was elected unopposed as his deputy. Upon Labor’s victory in the 2007 federal election, she became the first female Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, and held the cabinet portfolios of Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Minister for Social Inclusion. On 24 June 2010, after Rudd lost the support of his party and resigned, Julia Gillard was elected unopposed as the Leader of the Labor Party, thus becoming the 27th Prime Minister of Australia. The subsequent 2010 federal election saw the first hung parliament since the 1940 federal election. Julia Gillard was able to form a minority government with the support of a Green MP and three independent MPs. On 26 June 2013, after a leadership spill, she lost the leadership of the Labor Party to Rudd. Her resignation as Prime Minister took effect the following day. Julia Gillard retired from politics on 5 August 2013, before the impending federal election. After she left politics, in August 2013 Julia Gillard became an honorary visiting professor at the University of Adelaide, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education in October. Julia Gillard released her political memoirs, My Story, in September 2014. She has been on the board of the mental health organisation beyondblue since December 2014, and was made an honorary fellow of Aberystwyth University in June 2015. In addition to her various appointments, she has served as the chairwoman of the Global Partnership for Education since February 2014. Julia Gillard often spoke out and share her views on misogyny that she felt she received when in office saying it was stressful and not getting the same respect as her male counterparts.
Lisa Pelikan was born on July 12, 1954 in Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actress, known for; 10,000 Days and Return to the Blue Lagoon. She was previously married to Bruce Davison and Robert Harper. Lisa Pelikan physical features can be described as a skinny, frizzy red-haired lady of film who made her movie debut with the title role of Julia in 1977, playing Vanessa Redgrave in earlier years. Redgrave won a supporting Oscar.
Primarily a stage actress, she won a Drama-Logue Award for her one-woman play about Zelda Sayre (aka Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald) entitled “Only a Broken String of Pearls.” She also directs, having helmed a stage production of “‘Night, Mother” at the Interact Theatre in Los Angeles. Lisa Pelikan was
offered a full scholarship at Juilliard School of Drama in the 1970s. She gave birth to her 1st child at age 41, a son Ethan Davison on April 5, 1996. Child’s father is her now ex-2nd husband, Bruce Davison. She most recently work was her role starring in The American Premiere of Never Land with The Rogue Machine Theatre Company in LA. Lisa Pelikan is also known for playing Ruella in ‘Communicating Doors’ at the Odyssey theatre in LA. Lisa Pelikan currently starring in and receiving rave reviews in the critically-acclaimed Los Angeles Times Critics’ Choice hit production of Daisy in the Dreamtime – a Fountain Theatre production at Inside the Ford at the Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. She also was starring and receiving rave reviews for her “brilliant comic timing” in Accomplice at the Colony Theatre in Burbank thru March 13, 2005. Lisa Pelikan currently starring as “Amanda” in “The Glass Menagerie” by ‘Tennesse Williams’ at The Colony Theatre directed by Jessica Kubzansky in a “controversial, life changing production” of this classic play. Her filmography includes her roles: Young Julia in the 1977 film “Julia”; Jennifer Baylor in the 1987 movie “Jennifer”; as Anne in the 1979 movie “L’Homme en colère”; Jo Miller in the 1984 film “The House of God”; Violet in the 1984 movie “Swing Shift”; Rebecca in the 1985 movie “Ghoulies”; Helene in the 1990 movie “Lionheart”; Sarah Hargrave in the movie “Return to the Blue Lagoon”; Leslie Saxon in the 1998 movie “Shadow of Doubt”; and as the Cancer survivor in the 2015 movie “Circle”.
Australia PM Julia Gillard look like actress Lisa Pelikan. They both have red hair. Julia Gillard and Lisa Pelikan are white caucasian women who are slim in body and build.