Career
Crawford was born Kellie Lynn Hoggart in 1974. She began her career as a teenager appearing in Pizza Hut commercials. In 1991, at age 17, Crawford along with Liza Witt and Roxanne Clark, would form an idea to bring back music from the past and recreate it as a pop music act. Initially, they tried to launch the project as a television idea set in the themed time of the 1960s. As the group experienced difficulties getting the television show off the ground, they diverted their attentions towards simply creating music. They decided to name the group the Teen Queens and from 1991 to 1993 the group released three top ten ARIA singles.
After the group split in 1993, Crawford continued to act in television and movies, and appear in commercials for companies such as Pizza Hut.
Crawford was originally cast as Tracy Russell in Australia's long running sitcom Hey Dad..! but was replaced by Belinda Emmett.
Crawford's next breakthrough would come in 1998 when she was enlisted to join the new children's band and television show Hi-5 as the group's oldest and most commercially experienced member. She features with a puppet named "Chatterbox", better known as "Chats", voiced originally by co-cast member Charli Delaney, now performed by Brianne Turk. Kellie and Chats' segment of the show promotes and educates children on language skills and recognition of sounds and noises. Her American counterpart is Jennifer Korbee.
In December 2008 she announced that she would quit Hi-5 after ten years of commitment to the group.
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