Английская Википедия:Georgina Haig

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Georgina Haig (born 3 August 1985[1]) is an Australian film and television actress, known for her roles in the Australian children's television series The Elephant Princess, as well as the American television series Fringe, Limitless and Once Upon a Time.

Early life and education

Haig was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,[1] to Gillian Haig, a fine artist, and Russell Hagg, an Australian script writer and film maker, whose credits include BMX Bandits, The Cup, Cash and Company and Blue Heelers. She grew up on the Mornington Peninsula. She has one younger brother, actor/model Julian Haig.

Throughout her early youth she studied ballet, obtaining Grade 8 with the Royal Academy of Dance. Haig attended Red Hill Consolidated School and then Toorak College for her high school education. She was a head prefect and completed her Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award. She was accepted into the University of Melbourne to study Arts but deferred for one year to teach English in Vietnam at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology with Lattitude Global Volunteering. She then returned to Melbourne to pursue her studies and was accepted in the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts to study acting. She graduated in 2008 at age 23.[2]

Career

In her first year out of drama school Haig landed roles in two Australian feature films, Wasted on the Young and Road Train. She secured a recurring guest role in two seasons of the crime drama Underbelly. From 2009 to 2010 she also starred in the children's television series The Elephant Princess.

In 2010 she won a Best Actress Scream Festival award for her performance in thriller Crawl. She was considered for the role of Andromeda in the film Wrath of the Titans alongside several other actresses. The part ultimately went to Rosamund Pike.[3][4] Haig was also considered for the role of Gwen Stacy in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man, but lost the part to Emma Stone.[5]

In 2012, she appeared in the internationally acclaimed Australian film The Sapphires, and made several guest appearances on the American FOX science-fiction series Fringe, as Henrietta "Etta" Bishop.[6][7][8] She appeared in Dance Academy and had a guest role in an episode of comedy series A Moody Christmas.

Haig started 2013 with work on the sketch comedy show The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting, playing a variety of characters. She then secured the lead role of Lee Anne Marcus in the CBS legal drama Reckless, where she played a police officer caught up in corruption at the Charleston, South Carolina Police Department.[9][10] During that year she played the rock journalist Paula Yates in the miniseries INXS: Never Tear Us Apart, and defense lawyer Jasmine in the black comedy The Mule.

She worked with Australian comedian Lawrence Leung and husband Josh Mapleston on ABC Australia's farcical kung-fu comedy Maximum Choppage in 2014. Later that year she secured the much coveted role of Queen Elsa in the fourth season of Once Upon a Time.[11][12]

In July 2015, Haig was cast in Syfy futuristic pilot Incorporated,[13] but the role was later recast with Allison Miller.[14] In November 2015, it was announced that Haig would have a recurring role alongside Bradley Cooper and Jake McDorman in the first season of CBS' crime drama Limitless.[15] She starred as Annabel in Childhood's End,[16] a Syfy three-part miniseries, based on a story by Arthur C. Clarke. In March 2016, she was cast as the female lead in The CW's Untitled Mars Project pilot.[17]

In March 2020, it was announced Haig will replace Jessica Marais as Rachel Rafter in the upcoming series, Back to the Rafters, a sequel series to Packed to the Rafters.[18]

Personal life

In June 2014, Haig married screenwriter and actor Josh Mapleston.[19] In March 2017, their daughter Greta was born.[20][21] In February 2024, Haig revealed that she was pregnant with their second child, a boy.[22]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2008 Iris Chloe Short film
Lost & Found Louisa Short film
2010 Lest We Forget Cheryl Short film
Road Kill Liz
Wasted on the Young Simone
2011 Recon 6 Christine Short film
Crawl Marilyn Burns
2012 The Sapphires Glynnis
2013 Nerve Grace
2014 The Mule Jasmine Griffiths
2019 Where We Disappear Anastasia
2023 Late Night with the Devil Madeleine Delroy
2023 Ashes Frances Short

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2009–10 Underbelly Georgina Freeman Recurring role; 6 episodes
2010 Rescue: Special Ops Emma Griffiths Recurring role; 3 episodes
2011 The Elephant Princess Zamira Regular role; 26 episodes
2012 Dance Academy Mistii Recurring role; 3 episodes
Fringe Henrietta "Etta" Bishop Recurring role; 6 episodes
A Moody Christmas Patience Episode: "Water Under the Bridge"
2013 The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting Various characters Main role; 6 episodes
2014 INXS: Never Tear Us Apart Paula Yates Miniseries
Reckless Lee Anne Marcus Main role; 13 episodes
Once Upon a Time Elsa Recurring role; 12 episodes
2015 Maximum Choppage Elle Main role; 6 episodes
Childhood's End Annabel Stormgren Miniseries
2016 Limitless Piper Baird Recurring role; 4 episodes
2018 The Crossing Dr. Sophie Forbin Main role; 9 episodes
2018 Radio Silence Jill Peterman TV movie
2019 Secret Bridesmaids' Business Olivia Miniseries
2021 Snowpiercer Emilia Recurring role; 4 episodes
Back to the Rafters Rachel Rafter Main role; 6 episodes
2022 Archive 81 Iris Vos Recurring role; 3 episodes
2023 NCIS: Sydney Ana Niemus 3 episodes

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