Lisa McCune
Lisa McCune | |
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 McCune at the 2011 Logie Awards | |
| Born | 19 February 1971 Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Tim Disney (since 2000) |
| Children | Archer James (born 2001) Oliver Timothy (born 2003) Remy Elise (born 2005) |
Lisa McCune (born 19 February 1971 in Sydney, Australia), is a four-time Gold Logie Award winning Australian actress, best known for her role as Senior Constable Maggie Doyle in Blue Heelers, and as Lt. Kate McGregor in Sea Patrol.
Early career (1986–1993)
Lisa McCune first performed on stage at the age of 15 playing Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz[1] at the Limelight Theatre in Wanneroo, Western Australia.
After graduating from Greenwood Senior High School at age 16, she was immediately accepted into both the Classical Singing and Musical Theatre courses at the prestigious Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). She embarked on the Musical Theatre course, and graduated with a BA in Music Theatre in 1990, becoming one of WAAPA's youngest ever graduates. Upon graduation, Lisa immediately secured a distinguished agent in Robyn Gardiner Management (RGM Associates) and took on various jobs in Sydney and Melbourne.
In February 1991 she won a twelve-month contract with Coles Supermarkets[2], for a series of print and TV advertisements in which she played 'Lisa' the girl-next-door checkout-chick.
McCune performed in a state-wide tour of Victorian high schools in the educational John Romeril play about work experience, called Working Out, was in the chorus for a Sydney musical version of Great Expectations starring Philip Gould, and starred as the aspiring ballerina postulant, Sister Mary Leo, in the sequel to the Dan Goggin musical Nunsense.
She had a brief appearance in a re-enactment about a possible UFO-sighting in Bass Strait for the American series Unsolved Mysteries and a role in the horror movie Body Melt, in which her heavily-pregnant character was attacked by a ferocious placenta before dying from an exploding stomach. McCune also spent time singing in a couple of bands including George Kapiniaris' Flares and Choice.
In 1991 she filmed a pilot for a Steve Vizard/Artist Services comedy called Turn it Up (aka Radio Waves). In 1993, Lisa won the lead part of Allie Carter in the pilot of Newlyweds before being replaced by Annie Jones for the series.
Blue Heelers (1993–2000)
McCune shot to fame in September 1993 at age 22 when she debuted as Constable Maggie Doyle in Blue Heelers, playing the role until the seventh season. During this time she won the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Television Personality four times. When her character was killed in 2000, the "Who Shot Maggie Doyle?" story arc was the most watched in the series history, and her departure is attributed as one of the major factors in the ratings slump that followed[citation needed].
Throughout her Blue Heelers run she occasionally took time off to appear in other productions. In 1996 Lisa appeared opposite Brett Climo who played her brother in Blue Heelers, in a friend's film The Inner Sanctuary. In early 1997 she played the notoriously difficult[citation needed] role of Anne in the Melbourne Theatre Company's A Little Night Music In 1998, McCune played Cinderella in another Sondheim musical, Into the Woods. She also did two short seasons of the classic two-hander Love Letters.
In early 1999 she took six weeks off Blue Heelers to play one of the leads, Mary Abacus, in the miniseries adaptation of Bryce Courtenay's The Potato Factory, which earned her a nomination for AFI Best Actress in a TV Drama.[3] In July 1999, a couple of months before finishing on Blue Heelers she starred alongside John Wood in She Loves Me.
Later career (2000–present)
Immediately after finishing Blue Heelers, she starred alongside John Waters, Bert Newton, Nikki Webster, Rachel Marley and later Rob Guest in a stage version of The Sound of Music, as Maria von Trapp.[4]
In 2001 while she was pregnant with her first child, her portrait by Shaun Clark was entered in the Archibald Prize.[5][6] She was off screens for a year to be a stay-at-home-mother.
In 2002, her next project was a "comeback" role in the television series Marshall Law with Alison Whyte and former Blue Heelers cast member William McInnes.[7] Although it rated well in the first week,[8] the series was critically panned and its subsequent low ratings ensured it was cancelled after one season.[9]
In 2004, after another year off from giving birth to her second child, McCune slowly began to return to television. She again was the advertising face of Coles Supermarkets.[2] She also hosted Seven Network shows The World Around Us and Forensic Investigators. McCune also appeared as the love interest opposite Matt Day in the ABC telemovie Hell Has Harbour Views.[10]
In September 2005, McCune guest starred in a four-episode storyline on MDA[3] alongside her former Blue Heelers co-star Paul Bishop.
Also in 2005 she narrated a second season of Forensic Investigators and appeared in the Australian film Little Fish starring alongside Cate Blanchett and Sam Neill in the early stages of her third pregnancy.
She has also appeared in a number of musicals and other stage productions around Australia, notably as Sally Bowles in Cabaret,[1][11] Hope Cladwell in Urinetown, and Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.[12][13]
In 2006, she had a role in Tripping Over, where she played 'Annabel'.
From 2007-2011, Lisa McCune was in the ensemble cast for the Nine Network drama series, Sea Patrol. Her character is the Executive Officer (second in command) Lieutenant Kate McGregor, of HMAS Hammersley, a fictional Royal Australian Navy patrol boat. There were five seasons of the show, and it was cancelled as planned due to financial issues resulting from the scheduled loss of pertinent government tax credits.
On 5 April 2008, she began her role of Sarah Brown in the major stage production Guys & Dolls,[14] playing for 20 weeks at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne before being revived for a Sydney season at the Capitol Theatre on 12 March 2009.
In 2010, she appeared as Jean in the MTC production of Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone. McCune also appeared as the star in the reasonably priced ute/car in Season 3 Episode 1 of Top Gear Australia (in August). She appeared alongside Richard Roxburgh in Season 1 Episode 2 of the television series Rake, which aired in November.
McCune stars as Dr. Sam Stewart in Reef Doctors, an Australian television drama series set to premiere on Network Ten in 2013.[15]
Awards
McCune has won several television awards in her time.
At the Logie Awards, she has won:
- Four consecutive Gold Logie awards (won in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000) for her role in Blue Heelers
- Five consecutive 'Most popular Actress' awards (won in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000) for Blue Heelers
- One 'Most Popular New Talent' award in 1995 for Blue Heelers
At the Logie Awards, she has also been nominated for:
- Three Gold Logie awards (in 1996 and 2001 for Blue Heelers and in 2008 for Sea Patrol)
- 'Most Outstanding Actress' award in 2006 for Hell Has Harbour Views
- 'Most Popular Actress' award in 2008 for Sea Patrol
References
- ^ a b Sweet to Sexy Australian Women's Weekly Nov 2002
- ^ a b Lisa's queen of the aisles Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ a b MDA Lisa McCune profile ABC.net.au
- ^ The Hills Are Alive review in The Australian
- ^ Lisa's Gift To Her Baby Herald Sun article
- ^ Portrait entered in Archibald Prize NewsPix
- ^ Lisa Farewells the Goody Goody Woman's Day article
- ^ Critics in the cold as Law takes off The Age, Melbourne
- ^ Lawless Lisa TV Week article
- ^ Hell's Belle Herald Sun article
- ^ Sex, orphans and a lion The Age, Melbourne
- ^ Girl next door moves on News.com
- ^ Putnam spelling Bee Sydney Stage Archive
- ^ Guys And Dolls is a sure bet Australian Jewish News
- ^ http://www.screenqueensland.com.au/news/showcase/spotlights/559-sea-patrols-lisa-mccune-returns-to-far-north-queensland-for-new-network-ten-family-series.html
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