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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
Highlights of her theatre acting career include Helena in ''[[A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur]]'' 1990, ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'', ''[[Wit]]'', ''[[Women Beware Women]]'' and ''[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]'', one of three one-woman shows she toured with in Canada under the directorship of [[Geoffrey Hyland]], ''[[The Beauty Queen of Leenane]]'' directed by [[Janice Honeyman]] ([[Fleur du Cap Theatre Award]], Best Actress, 2001),''[[ Broken Glass]]'' (2011).
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Highlights of her theatre acting career include Helena in ''[[A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur]]'' 1990, ''[[Titus Andronicus]]'', ''[[Wit]]'', ''[[Women Beware Women]]'' and ''[[The Yellow Wallpaper]]'', one of three one-woman shows she toured with in Canada under the directorship of [[Geoffrey Hyland]], ''[[The Beauty Queen of Leenane]]'' directed by [[Janice Honeyman]] ([[Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards|Fleur du Cap]], Best Actress, 2001),''[[ Broken Glass]]'' (2011).
  
 
Movie work includes ''The Red Winter'', ''Astor Mansions'' and ''An African Dream''.
 
Movie work includes ''The Red Winter'', ''Astor Mansions'' and ''An African Dream''.
 
  
 
== Awards, etc ==
 
== Awards, etc ==

Revision as of 08:55, 6 October 2014

(19*-) Actress in film, radio and television and on stage.

Biography

Training

Studied at the University of Cape Town Drama Department


Career

Besides acting, she has worked as Head of the UCT Wardrobe, lectured on stage make-up, and directed and designed for theatre and worked as an accent and performance coach for film. She is also a painter, and she has exhibited and sold her paintings internationally


Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Highlights of her theatre acting career include Helena in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur 1990, Titus Andronicus, Wit, Women Beware Women and The Yellow Wallpaper, one of three one-woman shows she toured with in Canada under the directorship of Geoffrey Hyland, The Beauty Queen of Leenane directed by Janice Honeyman (Fleur du Cap, Best Actress, 2001),Broken Glass (2011).

Movie work includes The Red Winter, Astor Mansions and An African Dream.

Awards, etc

Won Fleur du Cap for Most Promising Student in 1985.


Sources

http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=26682

A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur theatre programme, 1990.


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