Minogue plots comedy career

Kylie Minogue is planning a new career as a comedy actress.

The 'Spinning Around' singer rose to fame in Australian day-time soap opera 'Neighbours' and has returned to her thespian roots several times throughout her career, with a cameo role in 2001's 'Moulin Rouge!' and on the small screen in a 'Doctor Who' Christmas special last year.

Minogue was recently tapped to appear in a new movie by 'The Edge of Love' director John Maybury and now admits she might go back to acting full time.

She says: "I started out as an actress and I thought if I was lucky that would be my career. Then I started singing and I was in that weird space where people say: 'You can't be a singer, you're an actress.' Then they're saying: 'Well you're a singer, you can't be an actress.'

"I hate that! If you're creative, there's no reason you shouldn't work in different mediums. Recording and being a performer, thankfully that's gone really well, but now I'm starting to think again about acting."

Minogue is convinced she has found her niche in comedy.

She adds: "It's so much fun. It's where I come from so I'm very comfortable to go back to that. It's not that well known that I'm funny, but I am funny. People who know me will tell you."