Jacqueline McKenzie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jacqueline Susan McKenzie (born 24 October 1967) is an Australian actress. McKenzie made her film debut in the 1987 film Wordplay and on stage in Child Dancing for Griffin Theatre Company. She made a strong impression in Romper Stomper (1992), and over the next couple of years came to be regarded as one of Australia's most promising young actresses. She received Australian Film Institute Award nominations for her roles in Stark, This Won't Hurt a Bit (both 1993), The Battlers and Traps (both 1994) before winning two awards in 1995 for "Best Actress in a Television Drama" for Halifax f.p: "Lies of the Mind", and Best Actress in a Leading Role" for Angel Baby. With this success she ventured to the United States and secured a Green Card, as a "Person of Extraordinary Ability". She subsequently had acting roles in films such as Deep Blue Sea (1999) and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002). In 2004, she began playing the lead female role Diana Skouris in the science fiction television series The 4400, one of the year's biggest successes. The show ran for four seasons, ending in 2007. She also played a lead role in an episode of Two Twisted (2006), an Australian television program. McKenzie appeared on television again in 2006 playing Linda Landry in "Umney's Last Case", the third episode of Nightmares and Dreamscapes on TNT. She has recorded a collection of songs: "Shy Baby", "Boo Boo", "Find Me", "Summer", "Under The Elm" and "Ever". "Shy Baby" was used in the second season finale of The 4400, and will be included in the show's soundtrack released in April 2007. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 1996, a portrait of McKenzie by Garry Shead was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics". McKenzie became mother to a daughter in June 2009. From 7 February to 27 March 2011, she will appear in In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Theatre Company Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacqueline McKenzie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- 2024 · The Convert as Charlotte
- 2024 · Force of Nature: The Dry 2 as Carmen Cooper
- 2022 · Poker Face as Doctor
- 2022 · Significant Others as Sarah
- 2022 · Savage River as Colleen Lang
- 2022 · Ruby's Choice as Sharon
- 2021 · Malignant as Dr. Florence Weaver
- 2020 · Halifax: Retribution as Sharon Sinclair
- 2020 · Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears as Lady Eleanor Lofthouse
- 2019 · Palm Beach as Bridget
- 2019 · Believe as Hannah
- 2019 · Bloom as Anne Carter
- 2018 · Pine Gap as Kath Sinclair
- 2018 · Harmony as Beth Miller
- 2018 · Occupation as Colonel Grant
- 2018 · The Gateway as Jane Chandler
- 2018 · Safe Harbour as Helen
- 2018 · Romper Stomper as Gabe
- 2017 · Three Summers as Professor Wellborn
- 2017 · Don't Tell as Jean Dalton
- 2016 · Making 'Traps' as Self
- 2015 · Force of Destiny as Hannah
- 2014 · The Water Diviner as Eliza
- 2014 · Love Child as Mrs. Maguire
- 2010 · Beneath Hill 60 as Mrs. Emma Waddell
- 2009 · Mental as Veronica Hayden-Jones
- 2006 · Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King as Linda Landry
- 2006 · Opal Dream as Annie Williamson
- 2005 · Peaches as Jude
- 2005 · Human Touch as Anna
- 2004 · The 4400 as Diana Skouris
- 2003 · Preservation as Daphne
- 2002 · Without a Trace as Patricia Mills
- 2002 · Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as Younger Teensy
- 2001 · Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) as Sherry
- 2001 · When Billie Beat Bobby as Margaret Court
- 2000 · Eisenstein as Pera
- 2000 · On the Beach as Mary Davidson Holmes
- 1999 · Deep Blue Sea as Janice Higgins
- 1999 · Freak Weather as
- 1998 · Love from Ground Zero as Samantha
- 1997 · Under the Lighthouse Dancing as Emma
- 1997 · Kangaroo Palace as Catherine Macaleese
- 1997 · Kangaroo Palace as Catherine Macaleese
- 1997 · The Devil Game as
- 1996 · Mr. Reliable as Beryl Muddle
- 1995 · Angel Baby as Kate
- 1994 · Halifax f.p. as Sharon Sinclair
- 1994 · Traps as Viola Renouard
- 1994 · The Battlers as Dancy Grimshaw
- 1994 · Talk as The Girl
- 1993 · Stark as Rachel O'Donoghue
- 1993 · This Won't Hurt a Bit as Vanessa Prescott
- 1992 · Romper Stomper as Gabe
- 1988 · The Riddle of the Stinson as Usherette