Sun Pezzimenti
Sun Pezzimenti (née Park; Korean: 박선; born 3 January 1981) is a South Korean-Australian singer, actress, entertainer and former member of the children's entertainment group Hi-5 as well as the television series of the same name from 2006 to 2008.
Biography
Early life
Sun Park was born in Suwon, South Korea, before immigrating to Australia at the age of three, raised in the suburb of Manly on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Sun graduated from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance. She also performed in the Brisbane and Sydney seasons of the musical "Mamma Mia!" Sun would go on to perform in the live show "BPM—Beats Per Minute," an amalgamation of funk, rock, jazz, and hip-hop music, as well as with the Australian musical group Rogue Traders, featuring Natalie Bassingthwaighte.
Hi-5 (2006-2008)
In April 2006, Sun joined the children's entertainment group Hi-5 originally as the temporary replacement after one of it's original members Kathleen de Leon Jones announced her pregnancy, and would take maternity leave, however in July 2007, Kathleen announced that she would be Hi-5 permanently to focus on raising her daughter, making Sun an official member in the process. Park was part of the television series filming for both seasons 9 and 10 and toured with the group across Australia.
In December 2008, Sun announced that she would leave the entertainment group Hi-5 after working with the group for three years, to focus on settling down and starting her family, as well as stating that she believed she had only been meant to be a temporary replacement for Kathleen in the first place, with Sun's final performance with the group being at the 2008 Carols by Candlelight. She would eventually be replaced by Fely Irvine.
After Hi-5
In late 2020, Sun appeared in fellow Hi-5 band member Stevie Nicholson's Superdudes video[1]
In 2021, Park was named in the cast for the ABC drama Troppo.
Personal life
In 2009, she married business development worker Nathan Pezzimenti, the couple would go on to have two children.