{"id":234338,"date":"2025-12-15T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/234338\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:52:09","slug":"home-and-away-actress-was-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/234338\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Home And Away&#8217; Actress Was 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/rachael-carpani\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rachael-carpani\" data-tag=\"rachael-carpani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachael Carpani<\/a>, an actress who appeared in nearly 180 episodes of Australian drama McLeod\u2019s Daughters, has died at the age of 45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCarpani\u2019s family confirmed her death on Instagram, writing that she had been suffering from a chronic illness, but had passed \u201cunexpectedly\u201d earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt is with great sadness that Tony and Gael Carpani announce that their beautiful daughter, beloved Australian actress Rachael Carpani, unexpectedly but peacefully passed away after a long battle with chronic illness, in the early hours of Sunday 7th December,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCarpani recently had a recurring role in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/home-and-away\/\" id=\"auto-tag_home-and-away\" data-tag=\"home-and-away\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Home and Away<\/a>, the long-running Channel 7 soap. She featured in U.S. productions NCIS: Los Angeles, A&amp;E network\u2019s The Glades, and The Way Back, Ben Affleck\u2019s 2020 basketball movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCarpani is best known in Australia for her work in McLeod\u2019s Daughters, in which she starred as sweet-natured Jodi Fountain from 2001 to 2009. She told 7News last year that she moved to America so she would not be known as \u201cJodi from McLeod\u2019s Daughters\u201d in her home country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShe revealed in 2021 that she was taken to hospital with abdominal pain and required surgery for an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachael Carpani, an actress who appeared in nearly 180 episodes of Australian drama McLeod\u2019s Daughters, has died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,81096,19,17,124620],"class_list":{"0":"post-234338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-home-and-away","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-rachael-carpani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115724861104285957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}