Australian actors & actresses destined to shine in 2014
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- Hanna Mangan Lawrence was born on 5 March 1991 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Bed of Roses (2008), Beyond the Reach (2014) and Spartacus (2010). She has been married to Omar Bustos since 15 December 2018. They have two children.Check out upcoming film The Reckoning
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Jessica Marais was born on the 29th January 1985 in South Africa and moved to Perth Australia at a young age. Recently she moved to Sydney where she has a TV role as Rachel Rafter in the Australian comedy series Packed to the Rafters. She has also recently appeared in the new Australian film Two Fists One Heart, filmed in Perth in 2007.Her role as transsexual showgirl Carlotta in ABC tele movie of the same name should definitely give Jessica Logie nomination and AACTA nomination.- Actor
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Rising star Luke Arnold is a graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He began his acting career with Australian television, staring in the series McLeod's Daughters, Rush, Rescue: Special Ops, City Homicide, and Steven Spielberg's The Pacific.
His first feature film role was the lead in Broken Hill, in which he had the opportunity to work with Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton, Spy Kids star Alexa Vega, and fellow Aussie Rhys Wakefield. The film was produced by Chris Wyatt (Napoleon Dynamite) and Julie Ryan (Ten Canoes, Red Dog). Broken Hill, a film about an Australian high school boy with big dreams of leaving the remote outback and becoming a classical musician, won a collection of international festival awards, including Best Feature 13+ at the Giffoni Film Festival in Italy.
Following Broken Hill, Arnold stared in "The Tunnel", a thriller set in the dark tunnels of the Australian subway system.
Luke Arnold was also the lead in the 2011 Australian comedy "Dealing with Destiny" and returned to Italy to star in the thriller "Murder in the Dark."His role as Michael Hutchence in INXS the untold story will make him a household name.- Actress
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Anna McGahan was born on 2 May 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She is an actress and writer, known for Anzac Girls (2014), Underbelly (2008) and 100 Bloody Acres (2012). She has been married to Jonathan Weir since April 2017. They have one child.Her role in Anzac Girls on the ABC is a must for those who are interested in Australian war stories.- Actress
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Krew was born in Sydney Australia and started acting at the age of 13.
She has been seen in numerous television series including Wild Boys (2011), All Saints (1998), At Home with Julia (2011), Steinlager, Double Take, and Rescue Special Ops (2009). Krew is also the voice of 'Grubby' in the ABC's multi award nominated animation _"Dirtgirlworld" (2009-2010)_ which received the 2010 AFI Award for Best Children's Animation as well as wining an Emmy Award in 2013.
Krew made her feature film debut in the horror film Primal (2010), directed by Josh Reed which has screened at several International Festivals including The Stiges Film Festival in Spain, Fantastik Film Festival in Sweden, Lisbon International Horror Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in Texas. Her short film credits include Joel Edgerton's Monkeys (2011) which screened at the 2011 Tropfest Short Film Festival, Tony Davison's Fully Famous (2011), Shelling Peas (2011), Dream the Life (2009), Dead Boring (2009), Invasion (2009), and Four (2008) alongside David Lyons.
On stage, Krew has appeared in Tusk Tusk and Brecht Exploration for the Sydney Theatre Company, That Face, Summerfolk and Bliss for Belvoir Street Theatre and The Sisters Project. In 2013, Krew will be seen in the ABC telemovie, Cliffy (2013), the story of the legendary Cliff Young as well as A Place to Call Home (2013) on Channel 7.
Krew is also a writer. Her plays have been produced for independent Theatres in Sydney, and has a feature film in development.Starring as Schapelle Corby in Nine's Schapelle.- Actor
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Robert Mammone was born in 1971 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. He is an actor and producer, known for The Condemned (2007), The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003).The real sequel to Underbelly.- Actor
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Don has worked extensively in Australian television since the late 90's. His American television credits include Childhood's End, the ABC pilot Warriors and he has just completed shooting NBC's medical drama Heartbeat. His latest Australian works include Devil's Playground, The Broken Shore, Serangoon Road, Jack Irish: Black Tide and Rake.
Don recently concluding shooting the Australian feature Ali's Wedding. Some of Don's film credits include Healing and Lucky Miles which won the audience award at the 2007 Sydney Film Festival. His US features include Big Top, The TV Set, Winning The Peace and California King and the Telemovies Devil's Dust and The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce for ABC Australia.
In 2010 Don won the TV Week Silver Logie for most outstanding actor for the role of Zane Malik in the SBS series East West 101. He received AFI nomination in 2008 and 2009 for Best Lead Actor in a TV drama and in 2011 was nominated for the TV Week Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor for his role in Foxtel series Tangle. In 2012, Don was again nominated for the AACTA for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama for East West 101.Starring in Peter Temple's book The broken shore as Joe Cashin and Devil's Playground.- Matthew Le Nevez was born on 10 January 1979 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. He is an actor, known for Man-Thing (2005), Offspring (2010) and Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (2012).Starring as Damien Parer who was a photographer during WWII.
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Started acting at the age of 9. Spent three years of High School on set with a tutor. Failed theatre performance in High School although he was working on numerous TV shows at the time.
His first film was the movie, The Boys, with David Wenham, Toni Collette and John Polson.
Anthony is with his long term partner Polly Smyth, and they have two children together. Sidney Hayes (Named after Sidney Poitier) and Marlon Hayes (Named after Marlon Brando).
He resides in Melbourne, Australia. He is now also a writer, producer and director.Playing a detective in Channel ten's Secret & Lies.- Actress
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Anna Bamford is known for Wonderland (2013), Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012) and Home and Away (1988).Plays Miranda Beaumont on Wonderland and the subject bet that if Tom (Michael Dorman) sleeps with her within 12 months he gives his precious car to his best mate Steve (Tim Ross).- David Berry grew up in Australia and spent his early years as a singer and violinist, attending school on a music scholarship. After high school he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating in 2010. His first acting role in television was in 'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' then later, 'Home and Away'. His first major role was in the television series 'A Place To Call Home' in which he played the character, James Bligh.Plays James in A Place To Call Home- set in the 1950's and struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality
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Abby Earl is an actress from Australia and born in 15 February 1989. She completed her education and started her film career from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. She is known for her film A Place to Call Home (2013), Bella the Ballerina (2010), The Great Mint Swindle (2012) and Underbelly (2008). She was nominated Logie Awards for Most Popular New Talent.plays Anna in A Place To Call Home and is in love with Gino an Italian.- Actor
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Aldo was born in Adelaide and moved to Sydney to study acting, landing a role in the award winning drama series A Place To Call Home in 2012. Featuring on stage and screen over the years his most recent role is working on the SBS crime thriller Dead Lucky set to air in 2018.plays Gino in A Place To Call Home- Actress
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Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood is known for A Place to Call Home (2013), Underbelly (2008) and The Filmmaker (2010). She is married to Marcello Fabrizi . They have one child.plays the suffering wife of James in A Place To Call Home- Actor
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Patrick Brammall, born March 30, 1976, is an Australian actor and writer. He is best known for his roles as Sean Moody in the ABC comedy A Moody Christmas (2012), as Leo Taylor in Series 5 of Channel Ten's Offspring (2014-2016), as Sergeant James Hayes in the ABC series Glitch (2015-2019), and as Andy Bouchard in Evil (2019-2022).Starring in two ABC shows Upper Middle Bogan and The Moodys- Actress
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Asher Keddie was born on 31 July 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Offspring (2010) and Love My Way (2004). She has been married to Vincent Fantauzzo since 9 April 2014. They have one child. She was previously married to Jay Bowen.Starring as Nina Proudman in Offspring and Ten's Party Tricks.- Actress
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Marta Dusseldorp was born on 1 February 1973 in Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for A Place to Call Home (2013), Janet King (2014) and Jack Irish (2016). She is married to Ben Winspear. They have two children.Starring in the title Janet King on the ABC and starring in A Place To Call Home alongside David Berry.- Actress
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Indiana Rose Evans born 27 July 1990 is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter, best known for her roles in Home and Away (1988) as Matilda Hunter, H2O: Just Add Water (2006) as Bella Hartley, and Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012) as Emmaline Robinson. Evans had an interest in performing since the age of five, when she would perform for family and friends. At the age of seven, Evans' parents enrolled her into dance lessons, which started with ballet and then evolved to jazz and tap.Surprising Blue Lagoon The Awakening didn't open many doors for Indiana to work in the US like her co-star Brenton Thwaites. But she is reprising her Crownies character Tatum Novak in the spin off Janet King.- Actress
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Andrea Demetriades (born 1987) is an Australian actress known for her television, theatre and film roles.
Demetriades was born in Perth, the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Costas, emigrated from Cyprus in 1969 and met her mother, Athena. Athena was born in Perth but her father was from Andros, Greece. Athena is an artist and Costas became a Greek language teacher and a translator, helping people with legal matters and translating in hospitals and welfare departments.
Demetriades studied Dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and Communications and Cultural Studies at Curtin University. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art (Acting) degree in 2006.
Demetriades is best known for her role as Lina Badir in the television series Crownies. She reprized the role for the spin-off series Janet King in 2014 and 2016. Her television guest roles include All Saints as Felicity Summers in 2009, Mr & Mrs Murder as Lola and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Beatrice in 2013. Demetriades appeared in the critically acclaimed 2015 Australian drama series The Principal as Hafa Habeb. In 2017 she starred in both the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Seven Types of Ambiguity, and Pulse as Doctor Lou Tannis. In 2018 she also starred in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV series Squinters.
Demetriades has featured in the films Nerve and Around The Block. Her theatre roles include Bell Shakespeare's Pericles, for which she was nominated for a 2009 Green Room Award and she toured Australia in Bell Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 2010. She starred as Eliza Doolittle in Sydney Theatre Company's 2012 production of Pygmalion.
Demetriades is one of the main protagonists in the 2015 film Alex & Eve about dating between a Greek (Alex, played by Richard Brancatisano) and a Muslim Lebanese (Eve, played by Demetriades).Reprising her Crownies character Lina Badir in Janet King.- Actor
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Hamish Michael was born on 18 March 1980 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor and composer, known for The Twelve (2022), Frayed (2019) and Crownies (2011). He has been married to Kate Mulvany since 7 July 2015.Also reprising in the Janet King spin off.- Actress
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Ella Scott Lynch is an Australian actress of film, television and theatre and also a writer, who was born in Sydney, New South Wales Australia. Lynch is best known for her roles in Love Child (2014) and iconic Australian medical drama All Saints (1998), also making an appearances in other productions such as Upright (2019), Doctor Doctor (2016). Lynch also made appearances in the iconic Underbelly series starring in three adaptations of the series including Underbelly (2008), Underbelly Files: Chopper (2018), and in Informer 3838 (2020) as gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo.As well as starring in Janet King will be starring in Love Child.- Actress
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Born and raised in Brisbane, Australia. Daughter of a British father. Adelaide Clemens began working as an actress on Australian television while in high school. She guest-starred in a 2006 episode of Blue Water High (2005) as Juliet, and in 2007, she starred in the children's series Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji (2007) as Alison. Clemens played Harper in the Showtime drama Love My Way (2004) that year, and was nominated for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent at the 2008 Logie Awards for the role. Clemens was seen in the 2008 MTV Networks Australia dramatic film Dream Life (2008), alongside Sigrid Thornton, Xavier Samuel, Linda Cropper and Andrew McFarlane. She had small roles in the television series All Saints (1998), and the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), in 2009. She became the face of Jan Logan's jewelry that year. Clemens relocated to Los Angeles, California in 2009 and starred in the 2010 film Wasted on the Young (2010) as Xandrie. In 2012, Clemens starred in Camilla Dickinson (2012), alongside Gregg Sulkin, Cary Elwes, and Samantha Mathis. The drama was an adaptation of the 1951 novel of the same name by young-adult fiction author Madeleine L'Engle. She portrayed teenager Heather Mason in Silent Hill: Revelation (2012). The horror film was based on the survival horror video game Silent Hill 3 (2003), and was a sequel to the film Silent Hill (2006). That year, Clemens also played a lead role as the young suffragette Valentine Wannop in Parade's End (2012), a television mini-series adaptation of the Ford Madox Ford tetra-logy co-produced by HBO and BBC Two. Clemens appeared in the horror film No One Lives (2012) starring Luke Evans. She also appeared in the film The Great Gatsby (2013), based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name. She played Catherine, the sister of Myrtle Wilson, played by Isla Fisher. Clemens starred as Tawney Talbot in the Sundance Channel television miniseries Rectify (2013), created by Ray McKinnon. She will also star with Natalie Dormer, Stephen Graham and Zachary Quinto in the independent drama, The Girl Who Invented Kissing.Starring alongside Matt LeNevez in Parers's War and Aden Young in SBSone Rectify.- Actress
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Rachael Taylor grew up in Tasmania, Australia, with her parents Nigel and Christine Taylor. She began modelling during her teens, working for the Skye-Jilly International agency. She competed for Miss Teen Tasmania, as well as the Miss Universe/Miss World state finals. She moved to Sydney to further her modeling career as well as to pursue acting. She also began studying for a degree in History and Politics at the University of Sydney.
In 2004, she landed her first acting role in the television movie The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004). After performing several roles, she left her studies to play a regular role on the Australian drama Headland (2005). She won a Logie Award for her performance as Most Popular New Female Talent. Her breakthrough role came in Transformers (2007) when she played Maggie Madsen.Starring alongside Gillian Anderson in Crisis.- Actor
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Alex Williams was born on 27 December 1990 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He is an actor and producer, known for Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012), Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS (2014) and Brock (2016).Last seen as Julian Assange in Underground and this year in INXS The Untold Story on Channel 7 and starring alongside Hanna Mangan-Lawrence in the film The Reckoning.- Actress
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Viva Bianca, daughter of Polish composer Cezary Skubiszewski, was born in Australia on November 17, 1983. Now a writer and filmmaker, having graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Viva began her career as an actress.
Bianca is probably best known for her role as the wealthy and devious Ilithyia in the first two seasons of the Starz original series Spartacus (2010). Staying true to her roots, she has guest starred in multiple Australian TV series, including Eugenie Sandler P.I. (2000), Marshall Law (2002), All Saints (1998), and The Strip (2008), as well as movies such as Accidents Happen (2009), Bad Bush (2009), X (2011), and The Reckoning (2014).
A passionate feminist activist, Bianca has contributed as a writer to multiple publications, spoken at UN Women conferences, and worked with non profits. Her latest film, Milkshake Girls, looks at the sex trafficking epidemic in the United States and is scheduled to begin filming in December, 2017. In 2014, Bianca co-created the online pop culture feminist blog SheRa Mag with her childhood friend, Victoria Khroundina.Starring alongside Jonathan LaPaglia who play detectives who are finding two runaway teenagers who left behind video footage that can identify a cop killer.- Actor
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Jonathan is the youngest of three brothers. Older brother, Anthony LaPaglia, is also an actor. Middle brother, Michael, is a car wholesaler in Los Angeles. His parents are, Eddie LaPaglia, an Australian auto dealership owner, and Maria, a secretary. He initially wanted to pursue fine arts as a career, but had doubts about his talent. He graduated from the University of Adelaide, Australia with a degree in medicine. He worked three years as a physician in Adelaide, Sydney and London. Feeling restricted, he decided to follow his brother into acting.In 1994, he moved to New York City where he joined the Circle In The Square Theatre School. He got his first break in 1996, when he joined the cast of the TV series New York Undercover (1994).Starring in Love Child with Jessica Marais and The Reckoning.- Actor
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Luke Hemsworth is an Australian actor who is known for his roles as Nathan Tyson in the TV series Neighbours, and as Ashley Stubbs in the HBO sci-fi series Westworld. Hemsworth was born in Melbourne, the eldest son of Leonie (née van Os), an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. His younger brothers are actors Chris and Liam Hemsworth. His maternal grandfather is a Dutch immigrant, and his other ancestry is English, Irish, Scottish, and German. He has been married to Samantha Hemsworth since 2007, and they have three daughters.Star of The Reckoning- Actor
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Appeared in Wonderland as Miranda's fiance and starring in The Reckoning alongside Jonathan LaPaglia, Viva Bianca, Luke Hemsworth, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence and Alex Williams.- Actress
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Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in Mudgeeraba, Queensland, Australia, a suburb in the Gold Coast hinterland of South East Queensland, where she and her siblings were raised by their mother and spent much of her time at the farm belonging to her grandparents. In her late teens, she moved to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to pursue an acting career.
From 2008-2010, Robbie played the character of Donna Freedman in the long-running Australian soap opera, Neighbours (1985), for which she was nominated for two Logie Awards. She set off to pursue Hollywood opportunities, quickly landing the role of Laura Cameron on the short-lived ABC series, Pan Am (2011). She made her big screen debut in the film, About Time (2013).
Robbie rose to fame co-starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, portraying the role of Naomi Lapaglia in Martin Scorsese's Oscar nominated film, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). She was nominated for a Breakthrough Performance MTV Movie Award, and numerous other awards.
In 2014, Robbie founded her own production company, LuckyChap Entertainment. She also appeared in the World War II romantic-drama film, Suite Française (2014). She starred in Focus (2015) and Z for Zachariah (2015), and made a cameo in The Big Short (2015).
In 2016, she married Tom Ackerley in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
She starred as Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan (2016), Tanya Vanderpoel in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) and as DC comics villain Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad (2016), for which she was nominated for a Teen Choice Award, and many other awards.
She portrayed figure skater Tonya Harding in the biographical film I, Tonya (2017), receiving critical acclaim and a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.- Actor
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Richard Roxburgh is an Australian actor, writer and producer who is known for portraying Dracula in the 2004 cult classic monster movie Van Helsing starring Hugh Jackman, Hugh Stamp in Mission: Impossible 2 and for his collaborations with Baz Luhrmann, particularly Moulin Rouge. He is married to his Van Helsing co-star Silvia Colloca since 2004 and has three children with her.Coming back on ABC is season 3 of Rake!!!- Actor
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Mark Coles Smith is an Australian film, television and theater actor, as well as a writer. He grew up in Broome, Australia and received a certificate in Aboriginal Theatre from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Mark has won numerous awards, including: the Yvonne Cohen Award from VCA Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts in 2007 and a Helpmann award for 'Best Actor in a Play' (The Drover's Wife).