title: Pepita Emmerichs
text: # Pepita Emmerichs
  
  Pepita Emmerichs is an Australian musician and actress. She co-founded the music group Oh Pep! with Olivia Hally, and appeared in the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.
  
  ## Life and career
  
  Pepita "Pepi" Emmerichs was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. She attended the Victorian College of Arts Secondary School, where she began collaborating with fellow student Olivia Hally in 2009. Emmerichs and Hally later co-founded the band Oh Pep!, whose musical style Emmerichs has characterised as "folk/pop/country with bluegrass instrumentation".
  
  Emmerichs also appeared in Spike Jonze's 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are, in which she played Claire, the protagonist's older sister.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  | Year | Title | Role | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2005 | Blue Heelers | Ally Shaw | Episode: Everything a girl could want |
  | 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are | Claire | Film |
  | 2010 | Stony Point | Amelia | Short film |
  