Английская Википедия:Anna McGahan

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Anna McGahan (born 2 May 1988) is an Australian actress and playwright. She is best known for playing the roles of Nellie Cameron on the television series, Underbelly: Razor (2011), Lucy in House Husbands (2012–2014), and Rose Anderson in The Doctor Blake Mysteries (2015–2018).

She received the Queensland Young Playwright's Award in 2008 and 2009, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Drama Award in 2010, for her play 'He's Seeing Other People Now'. She co-wrote the immersive theatre piece 'The People of the Sun' with Joel McKerrow, which toured Melbourne and Sydney in 2016 and 2017. In 2016 she was shortlisted for The Saturday Paper's national essay award, the Horne Prize, while in 2023 she won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

Career

McGahan has appeared in Australian film, television and theatre. Her most notable appearance to date is starring as Nellie Cameron in the hit Australian TV series Underbelly: Razor, in which she plays a 16-year-old 1920s prostitute from a wealthy background who influenced some of the era's most powerful men, for which she won the Inside Film 'Out of the Box' Award and was nominated for two Logies.

In 2012 she received a 'Best Emerging Artist' Matilda Award for her performance in La Boite Theatre Company's Julius Caesar.

McGahan appeared in the 2012 film 100 Bloody Acres and Australian TV series "House Husbands" on the Nine Network in the same year.

On 27 June 2012, McGahan was awarded the Heath Ledger scholarship at the Australians in Film benefit in Los Angeles.

In 2014 she played Sister Olive Haynes in the six-part miniseries for ABC Television ANZAC Girls. Based closely on real characters, she plays opposite Brandon McClelland as the Australian soldier Norval 'Pat' Dooley, who married Haynes in 1917.

In May 2021, McGahan played Katharina in William Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew with Queensland Theatre (in the Bille Brown Theatre, Brisbane), directed by Damien Ryan. Petruchio was played by Nicholas Brown.

Personal life

McGahan grew up in Coorparoo, Queensland she went to Brisbane Girls Grammar School located in Brisbane City and studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) at QUT, graduating in 2010. She subsequently relocated to Sydney. Growing up she was a dedicated ballet dancer and then began studying psychology upon finishing high school. She studied screenwriting at AFTRS in 2015.

In 2012 McGahan converted to Christianity while reading a Gideon's Bible in a hotel room, where she had a "series of spiritual encounters". In 2019 her memoir of her spiritual journey was published by Acorn Press, and was nominated for the global ECPA Christian Book Awards. She is no longer heavily involved in the church as an institution, and in 2021 stated that she creates work that ‘prioritises a defiant female gaze to explore experiences of embodiment, motherhood, sexuality and spirituality’.

McGahan is also a playwright. She won the Queensland Theatre Company Young Playwright's Award in 2009 and 2010, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Drama Award in 2011. In 2012 she produced her full-length play He's Seeing Other People Now through the Metro Arts Independents Season in Brisbane.

McGahan married Jonathan Weir in April 2017. They welcomed their first child, Mercy Weir, in February 2018, born prematurely at 33 weeks. They separated in 2021, and she now lives in Brisbane with her two daughters.

Bibliography

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Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Bipolar	Mopsy	Short
2009	Maligayang Pasko		Short
2010	Lance Johnson in Person	Abby	Short
2011	Шаблон:Sortname	Jen	Short
2012	100 Bloody Acres	Sophie
2012	Scratch	Lola	Short
2012	Reef 'n' Beef	Daisy
2012	Gingers	Ginge	Short
2016	Spirit of the Game	Elspeth
2016	Trolley	Anna	Short
2017	Project Eden: Vol. I	Alice Lawson
2018	Fur Baby	Colette	Short

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Rescue: Special Ops	Tegan Reid	Episode: "It's Not the Fall That Kills You"
2011	Spirited	Penelope	Guest role (series 2)
2011	Underbelly: Razor	Nellie Cameron	Main role
2011	Шаблон:Sortname	Jane Alexander	TV series
2012	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Miss Prout	Episode: "Away with the Fairies"
2012	Undertow	Newlywed	TV film
2012	Шаблон:Sortname	Rosanna Moore / The Queen	TV film
2012–2014	House Husbands	Lucy Crabb	Main role (series 1–3)
2014	ANZAC Girls	Olive Haynes	TV miniseries
2016	Шаблон:Sortname	Gillian Baxter / Dr. Colleen McKay	Episode: "The Homecoming"
2016	Fancy Boy	Karen / Rachel	Episodes: "1.2", "1.3"
2016–17	Шаблон:Sortname	Rose Anderson	Main role (series 4–5)
2017	Шаблон:Sortname	Rose Anderson	TV film
2018	Picnic at Hanging Rock	Greta McCraw	TV miniseries

Awards and nominations

Year	Title of Work	Award	Category	Result
2012	Underbelly: Razor	TV Week Logie Awards	Most Popular New Female Talent	Шаблон:Nom
2012	Underbelly: Razor	TV Week Logie Awards	Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent	Шаблон:Nom
2012	Various	Heath Ledger Scholarship		Шаблон:Won

References

Sources

• QUT Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia.
• The Courier Mail - an Australian newspaper
• SMH The Sydney Morning Herald
• The Courier Mail - an Australian newspaper
• The GatehouseШаблон:Dead link - Studio B
• Marquee

External links

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