Kyly Clarke is turning the page on a new chapter – and it’s taking her straight back to the beginning.

The former TV host, model and businesswoman is making a surprise return to acting, decades after landing her first commercial role as a child.

Now 43, the mum-of-one is diving head-first into the world of film and television, embracing what she calls her ‘Kyly 2.50’ era – a nod to her reinvention and growth.

‘I started acting at a very young age,’ Kyly told the Sunday Telegraph this week.

After years spent building businesses and raising her daughter Kelsey Lee, 10, whom she shares with ex-husband Michael Clarke, the Sydney-based star has joined leading agency Chic Talent Management.

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Kyly Clarke (pictured) is turning the page on a new chapter – and it’s taking her straight back to the beginning

After years spent building businesses and raising her daughter Kelsey Lee, 10, whom she shares with ex-husband Michael Clarke, the Sydney-based star has joined leading agency Chic Talent Management. Pictured with daughter Kelsey Lee

Her passion for storytelling is what’s pulling her back to the screen, with Kyly open to a wide range of roles across local and international productions.

‘Funnily enough I was one of the casting director’s “options” for the reporter role in the feature film I Know What You Did Last Summer,’ she shared.

‘I would love to work on both Australian and international productions. I would love to appear in a feature film’ Kyly continued.

‘It would be great to work on the set of NCIS: Sydney. Or even those Christmas movies which come out of Canada. I am leaving the door completely wide open to all opportunities.’

Kyly said the past few years were about putting her daughter first, but she now feels the timing is right to focus on her own creative path again.

‘I really think over the last five years, I’ve put Kelsey Lee first,’ she said.

Kyly previously explored a career in dance and modelling and has also recently worked in interior design and property development.

But she stumbled across her love of art when she struggled to find a piece for her bedroom and is now trying to live out her childhood dreams of being an artist.

‘I would love to work on both Australian and international productions. I would love to appear in a feature film. It would be great to work on the set of NCIS: Sydney. Or even those Christmas movies which come out of Canada. I am leaving the door completely wide open to all opportunities,’ she said 

Kyly has been pursuing her passion for art in recent years and has revealed how her new career has helped to ‘heal’ her.

She gave an insight into the emotional process of creating her artwork after being selected to show her work at the The Other Art Fair last year.

‘It was a really beautiful healing process,’ Clarke told the Daily Telegraph. 

‘I was finding me through that process and starting to understand and realise what it was I wanted in my life.’

Kyly, who is the ex-wife of cricketer Michael Clarke, told how art helps her to ‘shut out’ the outside world and give her full focus to what she is working on.

‘That is when a hobby like this, that can become a part of your career and your life, is really exciting because I guess it shuts out the outside world for those moments that you’re creating and that is really special,’ she added.

Kyly admitted her work getting selected for The Other Art Fair, which runs at the White Bay Cruise Terminal, was huge validation for her as an industry rookie.

‘I know I still have so much to learn, so many pieces that I want to create, and I will take time to perfect that and I am OK with that,’ Kyly said.