Leah Purcell
| Leah Purcell | |
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| Born | 14 August 1970 Murgon, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor, film director |
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| http://www.leahpurcell.com/ | |
Leah Purcell (born 14 August 1970 in Murgon, Queensland[1]) is an Australian actor, director and writer.
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[edit] Biography
She is a film, television and theatre actor, singer, director and playwright. She is the youngest of seven children of Aboriginal and white Australian descent.[2] Her father was a butcher and a boxing trainer.[3] After a difficult adolescence, looking after her sick mother who died while Leah was in her late teens, problems with alcohol and teenage motherhood, Purcell left Murgon and moved to Brisbane and became involved with community theatre.[2]
In 1996 she moved to Sydney to become presenter on a music video cable television station, RED Music Channel.[4] This was followed by roles in the ABC television series Police Rescue and Fallen Angels.[5][6] She co-wrote and acted in a play called Box the Pony, which played at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, the 1999 Edinburgh Festival and in 2000 at the Barbican Theatre in London.[7] She then wrote and directed the documentary Black Chicks Talking, which won a 2002 Inside Film award.[8] She appeared in the acclaimed Australian film Lantana starring Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey Rush and in the theatre in The Vagina Monologues.[9] She went on to feature in 2004 films Somersault, The Proposition (starring Guy Pearce and Emily Watson and written by Nick Cave) and Jindabyne (starring Gabriel Byrne) as well as playing the role of Condoleezza Rice in David Hare's play, Stuff Happens in Sydney and Melbourne.[10]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Acting
- Police Rescue (1996), Const. Tracey Davis — 9 episodes
- Fallen Angels (1997), Sharon Walker — 20 episodes
- Somewhere in the Darkness (1998), Lulu
- Water Rats (1998), Sarah Lane — 1 episode
- Lantana (2001), Detective Claudia Wiss
- BeastMaster (2000–2001), The Black Apparition — 5 episodes
- Somersault (2004), Diane
- The Proposition (2005), Queenie
- Jindabyne (2006), Carmel
- Love My Way (2007), Caroline Syron — 3 episodes
- The Story of the Miracles and Cookie's Table (2010), Annie
[edit] Directing
- Black Chicks Talking (2001)
- Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun (2009)
[edit] References
- ^ Hall, Louise (13 August 2006), "My top 5 – Leah Purcell", The Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/08/10/1154803022551.html, retrieved 20 January 2010
- ^ a b Verghis, Sharon (17 August 2005), "Direct line to Washington", The Age, http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/direct-line-to-washington/2005/08/16/1123958060744.html, retrieved 20 January 2010
- ^ Grasswill, Helen (17 June 2002). "Queen Leah". Australian Story. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.abc.net.au/austory/transcripts/s579368.htm. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ "Artistic Director Bio: Leah Purcell". ACPA. http://www.acpa.net.au/?ref=MTcyNw==. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ Keenan, Catherine (27 August 2002), "Blood sisters", The Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/26/1030053032725.html, retrieved 21 January 2010
- ^ "Upstaging". Message Stick. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 March 2004. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/messagestick/stories/s1057483.htm. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ "Leah Purcell / Claxton Speakers / Speaker Profile". Claxton Speakers. http://www.claxtonspeakers.com.au/speakers_profile/558. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ "IF Award Winners". Inside Film Awards. http://www.ifawards.com/About_Us/Winners.aspx. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ Keenan, Catherine (21 February 2003), "Monologues shift focus to the body beautiful — and battered", The Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/20/1045638423920.html, retrieved 21 January 2010
- ^ Verghis, Sharon (9 July 2005), "Channelling Condoleezza", The Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/channelling-condoleezza/2005/07/08/1120704535849.html, retrieved 21 January 2010
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- Australian television actors
- Australian film actors
- Australian film directors
- Australian dramatists and playwrights
- Australian non-fiction writers
- Australian women writers
- Indigenous Australian actors
- Indigenous Australian writers
- People from Queensland
- Australian music critics
- Australian music journalists
