Kate Fischer

• Birth Name — Katherine Helen Fischer • Born — 30 November 1973 • Birthplace — Adelaide, South Australia, Australia • Occupation — Model, actress, TV host • Mother — Pru Goward • Years Active — 1987–Present

Katherine Helen Fischer was born on 30 November 1973 at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia, the daughter of future Liberal politician Pru Goward and university economics lecturer Alastair Fischer. Her sister Penny was born two years later. The family lived in Adelaide until 1983, when her mother moved to Sydney for her television career leaving the children with their father. The marriage broke up soon after and the two girls moved to Canberra with their mother, who married journalist David Barnett in 1986. Malkah attended Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar School and Narrabundah College, before leaving school at fifteen to pursue her modelling career.

In 1987, at the age of 13, Malkah won the Dolly Covergirl of the Year competition and was touted as the next big Australian supermodel. At the peak of her career, she was considered to be "one of Australia's most photographed women". In 1988 she appeared in a Nescafe cinema release only commercial also featuring INXS. By the early 1990s, she had become a model working in Sydney and New York, where she had moved to aged sixteen in 1990. She did shoots for Bloomingdales, Glamor magazine and Mademoiselle, and was featured on the covers of Dolly, Cleo, Elle, Follow Me, Black + White magazine and Vogue Australia. In 2000 she made a TV commercial for Leggos pasta sauce, speaking in Italian throughout. Leggos made a series of commercials starring "iconic Australians", including Gough Whitlam, Shane Warne, Kerri Anne Kennerly and Malkah. In 2005–2006, Malkah was the face of AMP Capital Shopping Centres in Australia.

Around 1993, Malkah entered a relationship with James Packer, the billionaire heir to the Packer family which controlled Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, including the subsidiary Nine Network, one of Australia's largest television networks. They were engaged from 1996 to 1998. In 2024, Malkah stated that "she had never been engaged to any man and would no longer tolerate being defined by a man." Following the end of her relationship with Packer, Malkah moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, where she spent 13 years, but eventually fell into a period of financial hardship and returned to Australia, for a time becoming homeless, and eventually ended up working as a care assistant in a nursing home. Malkah has said she legally changed her name to Tziporah Malkah in her early 20s, after embracing her Jewish heritage. According to The Daily Telegraph, in a 2020 court filing her legal name was given as "Katherine Fischer". Malkah has been estranged from her mother Pru Goward for many years, saying in 2017, "It has always been quite a difficult relationship." In 2022, Malkah was found guilty of breaching a court order that prohibited her from posting online any information about a particular man.

• Sirens (1993, film) as Pru • Full Moon, Dirty Hearts by INXS (1993 music video) • Echo Point (1995, TV series) • Full Frontal (1995, TV series) as Guest • What’s Up Doc? (1996–97, TV series) as host • Good News Week (1996-96, S1-2) as Panellist • Elle McFeast Special: Breasts (1996, TV special) as Guest • Elle McFeast Special: The Whitlam Dismissal (1996, TV special) as Guest • Twisted Tales (1996, TV series, 1 episode) • The Munsters Scary Little Christmas (1996, TV movie) • Dust Off the Wings (1997, film) • Pigeon (1998, film) • Murder Call (1998, TV series, S2E18: Bone Dead) • Blood Surf (2000, film) as Cecily Herrold • All Saints (2002, TV series, 3 episodes) • The Real Thing (2002, film) • The Foreigner (2003, film) • Celebrity Overhaul (2005, TV series, S2) as Contestant • The Chaser's War on Everything (2005, TV series) as Guest • Top 40 Celebrity Countdown (2006, TV series) as Host • It Takes Two (2006 TV series, S1) - Contestant (eliminated third • I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (2017, TV series, S3) as Contestant

In 1997, "Kate and Barbie", a portrait of Malkah by Australian painter Paul Newton was a finalist in the annual Archibald Prize exhibition and is now in her private art collection. Newton also painted another portrait of Malkah the same year titled "Homage to Madame X", now owned by her mother, Pru Goward. David Bromley painted her portrait in 2001. In 1998 Australian band TISM released a song Kate, "Fischer of Men," about Malkah.