Brooke Kerith Satchwell (born 1980) is an Australian actress, model and environmental spokesperson.
Early life
Satchwell lived in
Teesdale, Victoria
Teesdale is a small town in the Golden Plains Shire, near the regional city of Geelong and less than west of the state capital, Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous ci ...
, for most of her life and has one sibling. She attended
Toorak College
Toorak College is an Independent school, independent, inter-denominational, boarding school, boarding and day school for girls, grades 5 - 12 and is co-educational, boys and girls, from pre-school through grade four. The school is located on the M ...
.
Career
Satchwell started acting in 1994 when a casting agent suggested she model in a few television advertisements. She also appeared in the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is the national broadcaster of Australia. It is principally funded by direct grants from the Australian Government and is administered by a government-appointed board. The ABC is a publicly-own ...
musical ''Harriet''. After she had completed work on an advertisement for
Just Jeans
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, a make-up artist advised Satchwell to get an agent. A year later she successfully auditioned for the role of
Anne Wilkinson in the daily television
soap opera
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''
Neighbours
''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera, which has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons an ...
'', which she played for five years.
Satchwell modelled for
Pantene
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and was signed to act as their 'brand ambassador' in 2004.
Satchwell got her first lead role on a film in 2008 in ''
Subdivision
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'' which was released in cinemas on 20 August 2009. In 2012, Satchwell joined the cast of drama series ''
Packed to the Rafters
''Packed to the Rafters'' was an Australian family-oriented comedy drama television program which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The show continued on Tuesdays in this timeslot for its entire run. The d ...
'' as Frankie, an electrician and employee of Dave Rafter. In 2013, she became a regular panellist on celebrity gossip, comedy show ''
Dirty Laundry Live
''Dirty Laundry Live'' is an Australian comedy panel television quiz show hosted by Lawrence Mooney. The first of 22 episodes in Season 1 screened live on Thursday 16 May 2013 at 9.30pm AEST on ABC2 (with repeats on ABC1 later in the week). It r ...
''. That same year, Satchwell joined the cast of ''
Wonderland'' as lawyer Grace Barnes. After three seasons, ''Wonderland'' was cancelled due to falling ratings. Satchwell has appeared in some episodes of children's television show
Play School.
In 2014, Satchwell made a guest appearance on sketch comedy series ''
Black Comedy
Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...
'', as Tiffany. She reprised the character in the second series in 2016. She also appeared in the ''
Jack Irish
''Jack Irish'' is an Australian television drama series first broadcast on ABC TV on 14 October 2012. The series stars Guy Pearce as the title character, a former criminal lawyer turned private investigator and debt collector. Much of the acti ...
'' series. 2018 saw Satchwell make guest appearances on ''
Hughesy, We Have a Problem
''Hughesy, We Have a Problem'' was an Australian comedy panel television series which premiered on Network 10 on 30 January 2018. The program was hosted by Dave Hughes, who along with a panel of comedians, attempted to solve problems of viewers ...
'', and the SBS drama ''
Dead Lucky
''Dead Lucky'' is a 1960 British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Vincent Ball, Betty McDowall, John Le Mesurier, Alfred Burke and Michael Ripper. A crime reporter teams up with a fashion journalist to investigate illegal go ...
''. She also plays Ally, the girlfriend of hit-man Ray Shoesmith, in the black comedy-drama ''
Mr Inbetween
''Mr Inbetween'' is an Australian black comedy-crime drama television series which premiered on FX on 25 September 2018 in the United States, followed by Fox Showcase in Australia on 1 October 2018. The series is a serialisation of the 2005 fe ...
''. Towards the end of the year, Satchwell replaced
Jane Harber
Jane Harber is an Australian actress who is known from her role as Zara Perkich in the television series ''Offspring''.
Career Television
Harber's television roles have included Susie Money in the series ''Underbelly'', Zdenka Milanovic in ''Th ...
as team captain for the second season of comedy panel show ''
Show Me the Movie!
''Show Me the Movie!'' was a weekly Australian television comedy panel show, which premiered on Network 10 on 22 March 2018 and ran until 28 March 2019. The program was hosted by Rove McManus who, with team captains Joel Creasey, Jane Harber ( ...
''.
Satchwell plays park ranger Miranda Gibson, the estranged daughter of Laura Gibson (
Sigrid Thornton
Sigrid Madeline Thornton (born 12 February 1959) is an Australian film and television actress. Her television work includes '' Prisoner'' (1979–80), '' All the Rivers Run'' (1983), '' SeaChange'' (1998–2019) and '' Wentworth'' (2016–2018 ...
), in the revival series of ''
SeaChange
''SeaChange'' is an Australian television program that ran from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC and in 2019 on the Nine Network. It was created by Andrew Knight and Deborah Cox and starred Sigrid Thornton, David Wenham, William McInnes, John Howar ...
''.
Satchwell admitted that she almost missed the casting call, as she was moving house.
The actress flew between Sydney and Byron, Mullumbimby and Brunswick Heads to film ''SeaChange'' and the second season of ''Mr Inbetween''.
Personal life
Satchwell has promoted charity work as a fundraiser for the
Starlight Children's Foundation
Starlight Children's Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982. Starlight's programs include providing hospital wear, games, and deliveries to hospitalized children. The programs are provided directly to children through Starlight's ne ...
Gift of a Lifetime, and in joining the fight against sand mining of Sydney's historic
Kurnell
Kurnell is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire along the east coast. Cronulla and Woolooware are the only adj ...
sand dunes. In 2009, Satchwell supported Power Shift, a climate-change conference for young people held in Sydney.
Satchwell's five-year relationship with actor
Matthew Newton
Matthew Joseph Newton (born January 22, 1977) is an Australian actor, writer, and director, and son of TV personalities Bert Newton, Bert and Patti Newton. His acting career was interrupted by treatment in a psychiatric unit for bipolar disor ...
ended in 2006. Newton was charged with four offences including common assault, intimidation and assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Satchwell. Three of the charges were withdrawn by prosecutors, Newton pleading guilty on the remaining charge of common assault.
On 26 November 2008, Satchwell was in a building which was attacked by terrorists in the
Mumbai Terrorist Attacks. She hid in a cupboard until gunfire ceased. One gunman passed by the cupboard as she sat hidden from view. Upon leaving the hotel, she said she had seen several dead bodies.
Satchwell was engaged to film editor David Gross from 2012 until 2019.
In 2015, she stated that long times separated by distance made it hard for them to ever set a date for the wedding.
Filmography
Television
Film
Theatre
References
External links
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Living people
1980 births
20th-century Australian actresses
21st-century Australian actresses
Australian children's television presenters
Australian female models
Australian soap opera actresses
Australian stage actresses
Logie Award winners
Australian women television presenters
Survivors of the 2008 Mumbai attacks