Pamela Rabe
Pamela Rabe | |
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| Born | Pamela June Koropatnick 30th April 1959 |
| Spouse | Roger Hodgman |
Pamela Rabe is a Canadian / Australian stage, television and film actor and theatre director. A graduate from the Playhouse Acting School, in Vancouver, Pamela Rabe is one of Australia’s most highly regarded and awarded actors.[1] She is best known for her appearances in the films Così, Sirens, Paradise Road and the television series Wentworth. She was born in Ontario, Canada but moved to Australia in 1983 after marrying Australian theatre director Roger Hodgman.
Career
Rabe is a prolific contributor to theatrical life in her adopted country. Some of her high-profile roles include Nora Boyle in Patrick White's The Season At Sarsaparilla, for which she won a Green Room Award for Best Actress,[2] and Richard III in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The War Of The Roses, which also starred Cate Blanchett as Richard II.[3][4]
Rabe also starred with Miranda Otto in the 1997 film adaptation of Elizabeth Jolley's novel The Well, for which she received an AFI Award for Best Actress.[1]
In 2005 she performed a challenging, Croatian play called Woman-Bomb.[5]
In 2010 she starred in the Melbourne stage production of David Mamet's play Boston Marriage.[6]
In 2012 Rabe won a Helpmann award for Best Female Actor in a musical for her performance in Grey Gardens.
Rabe served on the board of the Australian Film Institute from 1999-2002[7] and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of NIDA. In September 2013, it was announced that she will reprise the role of Joan Ferguson in season two of Wentworth. On July the 27th 2015 she won a Helpmann award for Best Female Actor in a play for her performance in The Glass Menagerie.
Filmography
Films
- Against the Innocent (1989) .... American woman
- Sirens (1993) .... Rose Lindsay
- Vacant Possession (1995) .... Tessa
- Così (1996) .... Ruth
- Lust and Revenge (1996) .... Obnoxious Woman
- Paradise Road (1997) .... Mrs. Tippler
- The Well (1997) .... Hester
- The Boy Who Feeds Cats (2004) .... Narrator
- For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (2013)
TV
- A Single Life (1986) .... Margaret Bennett
- Nancy Wake (1987) .... Madeleine
- A Country Practice (1990) .... Marnie Rose
- The Leaving of Liverpool (1992) .... Mrs. Lang
- Seven Deadly Sins (1993) .... Greed
- Ocean Girl (1995) .... Commander Byrne
- The Bite (1996) .... Samira Nazib
- Mercury (1996) .... Clare Bannister
- Frontier (1997) .... Rosa Campbell Praed
- Stingers (2001) .... Eve Reisner
- The Secret Life of Us (2003) .... Luciana
- CrashBurn (2003) .... Andy
- Holly's Heroes (2005) .... Mrs. Rocacelli
- Wentworth (2014–present) .... Joan Ferguson
See also
References
- ^ a b "Pamela Rabe". 16th Street.
- ^ "Sarsaparilla steals the Melbourne Limelight". Sydney Morning Herald. 2009-04-21. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
- ^ "Richard III, thy name is woman". Sydney Morning Herald. January 5, 2009. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ Lalak, Alex (January 19, 2009). "Review: The War Of The Roses, starring Cate Blanchett". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ Womb with a view
- ^ Croggon, Alison (June 11, 2010). "Pamela Rabe on a roll as a woman behaving badly". The Australian. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
- ^ "National Institute of Dramatic Art". 2010. Retrieved August 24, 2010.
Further reading
- Pamela Rabe in Melbourne Magazine, July 30, 2010
- A Woman of Substance, The Age, April 23, 1994
External links
- IMDb - Pamela Rabe
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