Robin McLeavy
| Robin McLeavy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 June 1981 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Stage and television actress |
| Years active | 2005–present |
Robin McLeavy (born 19 June 1981) is an actress from Sydney, Australia.
Early life
She graduated from NIDA in 2004. She starred as Lola Stone in the critically acclaimed Australian horror film, The Loved Ones. The film screened at Toronto International Film Festival in 2009 and won the Audience Choice Award.
Career
In 2009, McLeavy played the role of Stella Kowalski opposite Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton in the Sydney Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire. The production was directed by Liv Ullmann and toured to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. She received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer. She appeared in four encore seasons of Holding the Man, an award-winning play by Tommy Murphy.[1]
She played Isabella in Benedict Andrews' production of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare at the Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, 5 – 25 July 2010.[2] She appeared as Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, directed by Benedict Andrews for the Belvoir Theatre Company in 2007, and for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards.
Between 2011 and 2016 McLeavy played frontier whore/Indian abductee survivor Eva on the Western series Hell on Wheels.[3]
In 2015, McLeavy took on the role the voice of Nutsy, a Koala in Blinky Bill the Movie along with Ryan Kwanten, Rufus Sewell, David Wenham, Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh and Barry Humphries on the Australian computer-animated adventure film based the book by Dorothy Wall and she played Barbara Henning in Backtrack.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Last Man Standing | Kellie | (TV Series) |
| 2006 | 48 Shades | Jacq | |
| The Code | |||
| 2007 | The Other Half | Sarah | |
| 2009 | The Loved Ones | Lola "Princess" Stone | |
| 2010 | After the Credits | Lucy | |
| 2011–2016 | Hell on Wheels | Eva | (TV Series) |
| 2011 | Roman's Ark | Roman's Wife | |
| The Super Awesome Featurette: A Runner's Perspective of the Loved Ones | Herself | ||
| 2012 | Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Nancy Lincoln | |
| 2013 | The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting | Various Characters | (TV Series) |
| 2014 | Super Fun Night | Lucinda | (TV Series) |
| 2015 | Blinky Bill the Movie | Nutsy (voice) | McLeavy's first animated voice actress. |
| Backtrack | Barbara Henning |
Accolades
In 2012, McLeavy was nominated for the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Leading Actress for The Loved Ones, but lost against Elizabeth Olsen for Silent House.
Awards and nominations
| Year | Category | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Nominated — Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Voice in an Animated Film | Blinky Bill the Movie | Won |
References
- ↑ Sydney Stage Online – Holding The Man|Griffin Theatre; accessed 27 January 2014.
- ↑ http://www.belvoir.com.au/CustomContentRetrieve.aspx?ID=1087286
- ↑ Goldberg, Lesley (23 March 2012). "'Hell on Wheels' Ups Robin McLeavy to Series Regular (Exclusive)", The Hollywood Reporter; retrieved 19 August 2013.
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