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Maeve Dermody
Dermody at the AACTA Awards in January 2012
Born (1985-01-01) 1 January 1985 (age 39)
Sydney, New South Wales

Maeve Dermody (born 1 January 1985) is an Australian actress. After a film appearance as a child (age 5), her adult acting career has included work in Australian television, theatre, short films and movies. She characterizes her own acting goal as "to be able to play different characters every time, without traces of myself".[1]

Early life

She is the daughter of Susan Murphy Dermody, a film theorist, historian, and director. Her father is a psychologist. Dermody's family encouraged a love of literature and the arts, and supported performing as well - her mother gave Dermody her first part when she was 5 years old in the film her mother directed Breathing Under Water (1993).[2] Dermody attended Mosman High School in Sydney with a near-perfect UAI (99.97).[3][2] During high school she was active in drama classes, as well as the Australian Theatre for Young People, and furthered her acting education with several courses at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.

Career

Dermody at Tropfest in February 2013

While still in high school, Dermody began getting roles in Australian television series such as All Saints (1998), and in short films. Her first major film role was in the independent thriller Black Water (2007), about a trio of people trapped in the mangroves of the North Territory by a menacing Saltwater Crocodile.[1] Dermody's performance in "Black Water" earned her multiple nominations for Best Supporting Actress awards in the Australian film industry. Her next major film role was in Beautiful Kate (2009), for which she was again nominated for the AFI Best Supporting Actress Award.[1][4] She had a lead role in the 2010 well-received film Griff the Invisible, and in the 2012 miniseries Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms.[4][1]

In 2013, Dermody starred in the 10-part TV series drama Serangoon Road as Claire Simpson who is married to Frank (played by Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) but having an affair with Sam (played by Don Hany).[5]

Dermody is also active in the Australian theatre, having appeared in such diverse productions as Killer Joe, Measure for Measure, Our Town,[2] and played Nina in The Seagull, all for the major theatre companies in Sydney.[3]

At Christmas, 2015, Dermody starred as Vera Claythorne in BBC One's version of Agatha Christie's thriller And Then There Were None.[6]

Personal life

Dermody was in a relationship with actor Sam Worthington for 3 years before breaking up in 2008.[2]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1993 Breathing Under Water Maeve
2003 All Shook Up Billy Short
2003 White Collar Blue Amanda Payne TV series (1 episode)
2006 A Fairytale of the City The Girl Short
2006 Secretary Pilot for TV series
2006 All Saints Taylor Patterson TV series (1 episode "Truth Hurts")
2006 Monarch Cove Charlotte Lee TV series (1 episode)
2007 Walnut Ghyselle Short
2007 Black Water Lee
2007, 2009 The Chaser's War on Everything Various TV series (2 episodes)
2009 Shot Open Amelia Walsh Short
2009 Past Midnight Ginny Short
2009 Beautiful Kate Toni
2009 My Place Evelyn TV series (1 episode: "1918 Bertie")
2009 At the Breakfast Table Short
2010 Griff the Invisible Melody
2010 Magpie Martha Short
2011 Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo Rachel Carr TV mini-series
2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Eunice Henderson TV series (1 episode: "Murder on the Ballarat Train")
2012 Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms Lee TV series (6 episodes)
2012 Rake Polly Nesbitt TV series (2 episodes)
2012 Dangerous Remedy Jo Wainer TV film
2012 Almost Emily Short
2013 Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story Anna Murdoch TV miniseries
2013 Serangoon Road Claire Simpson TV series (10 episodes)
2013 Greg's First Day Mandy Short
2014 The Fear of the Darkness Dr. Sarah Faithfull
2015 And Then There Were None Vera Claythorne BBC One miniseries
2016 2:22 Sandy
2016 Marcella Grace Gibson ITV miniseries
2016 Ripper Street Prudence Sumner Season 5

References

  1. ^ a b c d Spring, Alexandra (5 April 2012). "Actress Maeve Dermody gets lost in her work". Vogue. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Maeve Dermody Gets All the Hot Boys". Au.lifestyle.yahoo.com. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  3. ^ a b Roach, Vicky (16 March 2011). "Maeve Dermody has a genius to act in Griff the Invisible and The Seagull". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  4. ^ a b Wasley, Alice (29 April 2012). "All revved up for new miniseries in Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms". Daily Telegraph. Sydney, New South Wales: News Ltd. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
  5. ^ "Don Hany and Maeve Dermody's Serangoon Road journey". news.com.au. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  6. ^ "One: And then there were none: Vera Claythorne". BBC. Retrieved 26 December 2015.

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