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Pepita Emmerichs is an Australian musician and actress. She co-founded the music group
Oh Pep! Oh Pep! are an Australian band formed in Melbourne, Australia by Olivia Hally (vocals, guitar) and Pepita Emmerichs (violin, mandolin). Their debut album, ''Stadium Cake,'' was released on 24 June 2016. Emmerichs characterised her band's music ...
with Olivia Hally, and appeared in the 2009 film ''
Where the Wild Things Are ''Where the Wild Things Are'' is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several tim ...
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Life and career

Pepita "Pepi" Emmerichs was born and raised in
Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropol ...
. She attended the Victorian College of Arts Secondary School, where she began collaborating with fellow student Olivia Hally in 2009.Christine Campbell
"Interview: Oh Pep!"
''Lip Magazine'' (3 December 2012). Retrieved 10 April 2015
"Q&A, with PEPI"
''The Melting Pot''. Retrieved 10 April 2015
Emmerichs and Hally later co-founded the band
Oh Pep! Oh Pep! are an Australian band formed in Melbourne, Australia by Olivia Hally (vocals, guitar) and Pepita Emmerichs (violin, mandolin). Their debut album, ''Stadium Cake,'' was released on 24 June 2016. Emmerichs characterised her band's music ...
, whose musical style Emmerichs has characterised as " folk/
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/ country with bluegrass instrumentation". Emmerichs also appeared in Spike Jonze's 2009 film ''
Where the Wild Things Are ''Where the Wild Things Are'' is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several tim ...
'', in which she played Claire, the protagonist's older sister.''Where the Wild Things Are'' review
Philippa Hawker, ''The Age'', 3 December 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2015

Manohla Dargis, ''New York Times'', 15 October 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2015


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Emmerichs, Pepita Living people Australian film actresses Australian child actresses Actresses from Melbourne Year of birth missing (living people) Australian country singers