April Rose Pengilly

April Rose Pengilly (pen-GILL-ee; born 12 April 1988), also known as April Rose, is an Australian actress and model.

Early life April Rose Pengilly is the daughter of INXS member Kirk Pengilly and designer Karen Hutchinson. She attended Wenona School and began modelling during Year 12. She has used the stage name April Rose to separate herself from her father. She is also the step daughter of world champion surfer Layne Beachley.

Career Modelling

Pengilly signed to Sydney's Chadwick Models at age 16, then to New York's Wilhelmina Models after graduating from high school and became a youth ambassador for the 2006 David Jones Summer collection, along with Megan Gale.

Pengilly has walked for leading designers at Australian Fashion Week, lived and worked in New York, London, Tokyo and Osaka, and fronted major campaigns. She has worked with top photographers Rankin, Pierre Toussaint, and Terry Richardson. She has featured on magazine covers and in editorials for InStyle, Elle (UK), The Times (UK), Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Oyster, Seventeen (US), and Glitter (Japan).

Pengilly has been selected for many elite roles, including ambassador for leading Australian department store David Jones, face of the Melbourne Fashion Festival, face of the Nokia L’amour cell phone collection, ambassador for Sony, ambassador for Barbie and the "legs" of Japanese stocking label ATSUGI.

In 2009, Pengilly was named Ambassador for the Melbourne Fashion Festival, working alongside J. Alexander and Doutzen Kroes. She has worked as a TV presenter for Fashion TV at London Fashion Week. She signed on as an ambassador for the charity Dementia Australia, adding to her previous involvements with charities including The Eye Foundation, SunSCHine/Sydney Children’s Hospital and the RSPCA.

Pengilly began a fashion and lifestyle blog in 2011.

Pengilly starred in the independent short film Object in 2013, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival. The following year, she competed on the season 14 of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with Russian dancer Aric Yegudkin and danced for Dementia Australia. Pengilly and Yegudkin were eliminated in week three despite a score of 29 out of 40. Viewers thought Pengilly and Yegudkin's elimination was unfair, as fellow contestant Mark Holden had received a lower score and broken rules. Holden later offered to swap places with Pengilly.

Pengilly has worked as a television host, covering London Fashion Week for FashionTV. In 2015, Pengilly had a guest role in the Channel 7 miniseries Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door. The following year, she had a guest role in Brock. She made her first appearance on 27 March 2018. For her portrayal of Chloe, Pengilly won the Best Daytime Star accolade at the 2021 Inside Soap Awards. Pengilly departed Neighbours following its cancellation in 2022, but returned for a guest stint when it was revived by Amazon Freevee in 2023.

After leaving Neighbours, Pengilly voiced the role of Amy Haqq in the six-part audio series Gripped: Second Son, which also stars Lincoln Younes and Zoe Carides. Pengilly makes a cameo appearance alongside her former Neighbours co-star Tim Robards in James Demitri's Australian horror film Drax. She has also joined the cast of Australian survival-thriller film Bully.

Personal life

When she appeared on Neighbours, Pengilly split her time between her home in Sydney and Melbourne, where the show's studios are located. She later dated musician Alex Laska of Melbourne rock band Kingswood.

On 9 December 2023, Pengilly announced her engagement to architect Adam Paul Jones, with whom she has been in a relationship since early 2022. They were married at the Château de Challain-la-Potherie in France on 26 August 2025.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 2011 LBF Tanya 2013 Object Model Short film 2014 Dancing with the Stars Herself 2015 Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door Tracey 2016 Jinxed Jane Short film 2016 Duffy Lydia Short film 2016 Brock Hippy Girl 2018 Lovelost Sophie Short film 2018–2023 Neighbours Chloe Brennan Series regular (2018–2022); guest (2023) 2025 Full Story Caroline Webseries 2026 Drax Dana