Essie Davis
(Actor)
.. Phryne Fisher
Born:
January 19, 1970
Birthplace: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Trivia:
While at drama school, lived with classmate Cate Blanchett. A week after graduating, cast as Juliet in Bell Shakespeare Company's 1993 production of Romeo and Juliet and as Jilly in the film The Custodian (1993). Met husband Justin Kurzel in 1996, when he was a set designer at the Sydney Theatre Company and she was in a Belvoir Street production of A View from the Bridge. Sprained her ankle, dislocated her knee and broke a rib doing stunts for Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
Nathan Page
(Actor)
.. Det. John Robinson
Miriam Margolyes
(Actor)
.. Aunt Prudence
Born:
May 18, 1941
Birthplace: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Trivia:
Esteemed British supporting actress and voice artist Miriam Margolyes has worked on radio, television, stage, and in many prestigious feature films. She launched her career in her native England but came to the U.S. after winning the Los Angeles Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Flora Finching in Little Dorrit (1988). After settling in L.A., Margolyes starred in the short-lived CBS television series Frannie's Turn. As a voice artist, Margolyes provided the characterization for Babe's mother in the Oscar-nominated Babe (1996), as well as voicing the role of the glowworm in James and the Giant Peach (1996), in which she also played one of the wicked aunties.
Ashleigh Cummings
(Actor)
.. Dorothy Williams
Born:
November 11, 1992
Birthplace: Saudi Arabia
Trivia:
Born in Saudi Arabia to Australian parents, she moved to Australia when she was 12. As a teenager, took dancing, singing and acting classes at Sydney's Brent Street School of Performing Arts, Participate Film Academy and the Screenwise Film & TV School for Actors. Made her feature-film debut as a dancer in Razzle Dazzle (2007). Performed with the Sydney Theatre Company in its production of Our Town in 2010. Learnt to operate AK-47 assault rifles and ride dirt bikes for her breakout role in Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010). Made her recording debut, contributing vocals to Melbourne musician Dan Webb's single "Sleep (ft. Ashleigh Cummings)", in 2014.
Hugo Johnstone-Burt
(Actor)
.. Constable Hugh Collins
Tammy MacIntosh
(Actor)
.. Dr. Mac
Born:
January 01, 1970
Birthplace: Australia
Trivia:
First role on television was playing a reporter on the children's show C'Mon Kids in the late 1980s. Rose in prominence playing Charlotte in the medical drama All Saints from 2002 to '09. Has an extensive career on the stage, including performing in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Shark Fin Soup and The Ensemble Theatre's production of Sleeping Beauty.
Travis McMahon
(Actor)
.. Bert
Anthony Sharp
(Actor)
.. Cec
Born:
June 16, 1915
Died:
July 23, 1984
Nicholas Bell
(Actor)
.. Murdoch Foyle
Ruby Rees-Wemyss
(Actor)
.. Jane
Wendy Hughes
(Actor)
.. Adele Freeman
Born:
July 29, 1952
Died:
March 08, 2014
Trivia:
Australian actress Wendy Hughes was trained as a ballerina before attending the National Institute of the Dramatic Arts. After several seasons with the Melbourne Theatre Company, Hughes emerged as one of the leading lights of so-called "New Australian Film" movement. She was nothing less than brilliant as the mother of Judy Davis in Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career (1979); she followed this triumph with starring roles in Lonely Hearts (1981) and Careful He Might Hear You (1983), for which she won the Australian Film Institute award (the Australian equivalent of the Oscar) for Best Lead Actress. She also dabbled in screenwriting, with 1989's Luigi's Ladies. Her television work included the miniseries Amerika (1987) and A Woman Called Jackie (1991), and the role of Kate McGregor on the weekly Snowy River: The McGregor Saga. Hughes continued to be a major presence in the Australian film, TV and stage scene until her death in 2014 at age 61.
Rohan Nichol
(Actor)
.. Vic Freeman
Toby Schmitz
(Actor)
.. Charles Freeman
Born:
January 01, 1977
Birthplace: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Trivia:
Wrote and performed in revue, stand-up comedy and theatre productions while studying performing arts and law at the University of Western Australia. While studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, wrote his first play, dreamalittledreamalittle, which was presented as a director's project in 1998. After graduating drama school, worked extensively with the Sydney Theatre Company, beginning with David Williamson's play The Great Man. Directed a production of Howard Korder's play A Boy's Life in Sydney in 2000. Won the Sydney Theatre Company's Patrick White Playwrights' Award for Lucky in 2002. His play Chicks WIll Dig You won the Australian National Playwrights' Centre/New Dramatists Award in 2004. Played the title role in Hamlet in the 2013 Belvoir St Theatre production in Sydney.
Deni Hines
(Actor)
.. Nerine Rogers
Arthur Angel
(Actor)
.. Ben Rodgers
Simon Lyndon
(Actor)
.. Tintagel Stone
Born:
February 18, 1971
Birthplace: London, England
Trivia:
Grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia.Frequently acts and directs for the stage, appearing in productions of Blackrock, Popcorn, Cloudstreet and That Eye In The Sky.Has directed productions of Road with Bojana Novakovic and Diary of a Madman with Alan Morris for Tamarama Rock Surfers.Made his film directorial debut with the 2013 comedy short Baby.
Adrian Auld
(Actor)
.. Bobby Sullivan
Lauren Clair
(Actor)
.. Pansy Shore