Australian actors & actresses destined to shine in 2014
by leos_monkey | created - 19 Jan 2014 | updated - 13 Jun 2014 | Public
1. Hanna Mangan Lawrence
Actress | Bed of Roses
Hanna Mangan Lawrence was born on March 5, 1991 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Bed of Roses (2008), Beyond the Reach (2014) and Spartacus (2010). She has been married to Omar Bustos since December 15, 2018. They have two children.
Check out upcoming film The Reckoning
2. Jessica Marais
Actress | Love Child
Jessica Marais was born on the 29th January 1985 in South Africa and moved to Perth Australia at a young age. Recently she moved to Sydney where she has a TV role as Rachel Rafter in the Australian comedy series Packed to the Rafters. She has also recently appeared in the new Australian film Two ...
Her role as transsexual showgirl Carlotta in ABC tele movie of the same name should definitely give Jessica Logie nomination and AACTA nomination.
3. Luke Arnold
Actor | Black Sails
Rising star Luke Arnold is a graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He began his acting career with Australian television, staring in the series McLeod's Daughters, Rush, Rescue: Special Ops, City Homicide, and Steven Spielberg's The Pacific.
His first feature film role was...
His role as Michael Hutchence in INXS the untold story will make him a household name.
4. Anna McGahan
Actress | Anzac Girls
Anna McGahan was born on May 2, 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She is an actress and writer, known for Anzac Girls (2014), Underbelly (2008) and 100 Bloody Acres (2012). She has been married to Jonathan Weir since April 2017. They have one child.
Her role in Anzac Girls on the ABC is a must for those who are interested in Australian war stories.
5. Krew Boylan
Actress | Seriously Red
Krew was born in Sydney Australia and started acting at the age of 13.
She has been seen in numerous television series including Wild Boys (2011), All Saints (1998), At Home with Julia (2011), Steinlager, Double Take, and Rescue Special Ops (2009). Krew is also the voice of 'Grubby' in the ABC's ...
Starring as Schapelle Corby in Nine's Schapelle.
6. Robert Mammone
Actor | The Condemned
Robert Mammone was born in 1971 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. He is an actor and producer, known for The Condemned (2007), The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003).
The real sequel to Underbelly.
7. Don Hany
Actor | East West 101
Don has worked extensively in Australian television since the late 90's. His American television credits include Childhood's End, the ABC pilot Warriors and he has just completed shooting NBC's medical drama Heartbeat. His latest Australian works include Devil's Playground, The Broken Shore, ...
Starring in Peter Temple's book The broken shore as Joe Cashin and Devil's Playground.
8. Matthew Le Nevez
Actor | Man-Thing
Matthew Le Nevez was born on January 10, 1979 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. He is an actor, known for Man-Thing (2005), Offspring (2010) and Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (2012).
Starring as Damien Parer who was a photographer during WWII.
9. Anthony Hayes
Actor | Animal Kingdom
Started acting at the age of 9. Spent three years of High School on set with a tutor. Failed theatre performance in High School although he was working on numerous TV shows at the time.
His first film was the movie, The Boys, with David Wenham, Toni Collette and John Polson.
Anthony is with his long ...
Playing a detective in Channel ten's Secret & Lies.
10. Anna Bamford
Actress | Wonderland
Anna Bamford is known for Wonderland (2013), Home and Away (1988) and Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012).
Plays Miranda Beaumont on Wonderland and the subject bet that if Tom (Michael Dorman) sleeps with her within 12 months he gives his precious car to his best mate Steve (Tim Ross).
11. David Berry
Actor | A Place to Call Home
David Berry grew up in Australia and spent his early years as a singer and violinist, attending school on a music scholarship. After high school he attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating in 2010. His first acting role in television was in 'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'...
Plays James in A Place To Call Home- set in the 1950's and struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality
12. Abby Earl
Actress | A Place to Call Home
Abby Earl is an actress from Australia and born in 15 February 1989. She completed her education and started her film career from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. She is known for her film A Place to Call Home (2013), Bella the Ballerina (...
plays Anna in A Place To Call Home and is in love with Gino an Italian.
13. Aldo Mignone
Actor | A Place to Call Home
Aldo was born in Adelaide and moved to Sydney to study acting, landing a role in the award winning drama series A Place To Call Home in 2012. Featuring on stage and screen over the years his most recent role is working on the SBS crime thriller Dead Lucky set to air in 2018.
plays Gino in A Place To Call Home
14. Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
Actress | A Place to Call Home
Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood is known for A Place to Call Home (2013), Underbelly (2008) and The Filmmaker (2010). She is married to Marcello Fabrizi . They have one child.
plays the suffering wife of James in A Place To Call Home
15. Patrick Brammall
Actor | Colin from Accounts
Patrick Brammall, born March 30, 1976, is an Australian actor and writer. He is best known for his roles as Sean Moody in the ABC comedy A Moody Christmas (2012), as Leo Taylor in Series 5 of Channel Ten's Offspring (2014-2016), as Sergeant James Hayes in the ABC series Glitch (2015-2019), and as ...
Starring in two ABC shows Upper Middle Bogan and The Moodys
16. Asher Keddie
Actress | X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Asher Keddie was born on July 31, 1974 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Offspring (2010) and Love My Way (2004). She has been married to Vincent Fantauzzo since April 9, 2014. They have one child. She was previously ...
Starring as Nina Proudman in Offspring and Ten's Party Tricks.
17. Marta Dusseldorp
Actress | A Place to Call Home
Marta Dusseldorp was born on February 1, 1973 in Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for A Place to Call Home (2013), Janet King (2014) and Jack Irish (2016). She is married to Ben Winspear. They have two children.
Starring in the title Janet King on the ABC and starring in A Place To Call Home alongside David Berry.
18. Indiana Evans
Actress | H2O: Just Add Water
Indiana Rose Evans born 27 July 1990 is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter, best known for her roles in Home and Away (1988) as Matilda Hunter, H2O: Just Add Water (2006) as Bella Hartley, and Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012) as Emmaline Robinson. Evans had an interest in performing since...
Surprising Blue Lagoon The Awakening didn't open many doors for Indiana to work in the US like her co-star Brenton Thwaites. But she is reprising her Crownies character Tatum Novak in the spin off Janet King.
19. Andrea Demetriades
Actress | Janet King
Andrea Demetriades (born 1987) is an Australian actress known for her television, theatre and film roles.
Demetriades was born in Perth, the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Costas, emigrated from Cyprus in 1969 and met her mother, Athena. Athena was born in Perth but her father was from Andros...
Reprising her Crownies character Lina Badir in Janet King.
20. Hamish Michael
Actor | The Twelve
Hamish Michael was born on March 18, 1980 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor and composer, known for The Twelve (2022), Frayed (2019) and Crownies (2011). He has been married to Kate Mulvany since July 7, 2015.
Also reprising in the Janet King spin off.
21. Ella Scott Lynch
Actress | Pimped
Ella Scott Lynch is an Australian actress of film, television and theatre and also a writer, who was born in Sydney, New South Wales Australia. Lynch is best known for her roles in Love Child (2014) and iconic Australian medical drama All Saints (1998), also making an appearances in other ...
As well as starring in Janet King will be starring in Love Child.
22. Adelaide Clemens
Actress | Rectify
Born and raised in Brisbane, Australia. Daughter of a British father. Adelaide Clemens began working as an actress on Australian television while in high school. She guest-starred in a 2006 episode of Blue Water High (2005) as Juliet, and in 2007, she starred in the children's series Pirate Islands...
Starring alongside Matt LeNevez in Parers's War and Aden Young in SBSone Rectify.
23. Rachael Taylor
Actress | Transformers
Rachael Taylor grew up in Tasmania, Australia, with her parents Nigel and Christine Taylor. She began modelling during her teens, working for the Skye-Jilly International agency. She competed for Miss Teen Tasmania, as well as the Miss Universe/Miss World state finals. She moved to Sydney to ...
Starring alongside Gillian Anderson in Crisis.
24. Alex Williams
Actor | Underground: The Julian Assange Story
Alex Williams was born on December 27, 1990 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. He is an actor and producer, known for Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012), Never Tear Us Apart: The Untold Story of INXS (2014) and Brock (2016).
Last seen as Julian Assange in Underground and this year in INXS The Untold Story on Channel 7 and starring alongside Hanna Mangan-Lawrence in the film The Reckoning.
25. Viva Bianca
Actress | Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Viva Bianca, daughter of Polish composer Cezary Skubiszewski, was born in Australia on November 17, 1983. Now a writer and filmmaker, having graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Viva began her career as an actress.
Bianca is probably best known for her role as the ...
Starring alongside Jonathan LaPaglia who play detectives who are finding two runaway teenagers who left behind video footage that can identify a cop killer.
26. Jonathan LaPaglia
Actor | Seven Days
Jonathan is the youngest of three brothers. Older brother, Anthony LaPaglia, is also an actor. Middle brother, Michael, is a car wholesaler in Los Angeles. His parents are, Eddie LaPaglia, an Australian auto dealership owner, and Maria, a secretary. He initially wanted to pursue fine arts as a ...
Starring in Love Child with Jessica Marais and The Reckoning.
27. Luke Hemsworth
Actor | Thor: Ragnarok
Luke Hemsworth is an Australian actor who is known for his roles as Nathan Tyson in the TV series Neighbours, and as Ashley Stubbs in the HBO sci-fi series Westworld. Hemsworth was born in Melbourne, the eldest son of Leonie (née van Os), an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services ...
Star of The Reckoning
28. Tom O'Sullivan
Actor | Fool's Gold
Tom O'Sullivan is known for Fool's Gold (2008), Alien: Covenant (2017) and Underbelly (2008).
Appeared in Wonderland as Miranda's fiance and starring in The Reckoning alongside Jonathan LaPaglia, Viva Bianca, Luke Hemsworth, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence and Alex Williams.
29. Margot Robbie
Actress | Suicide Squad
Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in ...
30. Richard Roxburgh
Actor | Van Helsing
Richard Roxburgh is an Australian actor, writer and producer who is known for portraying Dracula in the 2004 cult classic monster movie Van Helsing starring Hugh Jackman, Hugh Stamp in Mission: Impossible 2 and for his collaborations with Baz Luhrmann, particularly Moulin Rouge. He is married to ...
Coming back on ABC is season 3 of Rake!!!
31. Mark Coles Smith
Actor | Mystery Road: Origin
Mark Coles Smith is an Australian film, television and theater actor, as well as a writer. He grew up in Broome, Australia and received a certificate in Aboriginal Theatre from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Mark has won numerous awards, including: the Yvonne Cohen Award from ...
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