Hayley McElhinney (born 12 September 1974) is an Australian stage, film and television actress.
Graduating from the
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan University (ECU) was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition. WAAPA (commonly pronounced "whopp-a") operates as a part of ECU, located at the ECU campus in ...
in 1999, McElhinney has performed around Australia and in the United States with the
Melbourne Theatre Company
The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre com ...
,
Black Swan Theatre Company
Black Swan State Theatre Company (formerly The Black Swan Theatre Company) is Western Australia's state theatre company. It runs an annual subscription season in Perth at the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, tours its productions reg ...
,
Perth Theatre Company
Perth Theatre Company was a live theatre company in Perth, Western Australia.
History
Perth Theatre Company was founded as SWY Theatre Company by graduates from the specialist Theatre Arts course at John Curtin Senior High School in 1983. Betwe ...
and
Sydney Theatre Company. She was nominated for a
Helpmann Award in 2007 and was a core member of Sydney Theatre Company's Actor's Company ensemble from 2006 – 2008. She played Sonya in the Sydney Theatre Company production of ''
Uncle Vanya
''Uncle Vanya'' ( rus, Дя́дя Ва́ня, r=Dyádya Ványa, p=ˈdʲædʲə ˈvanʲə) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1898, and was first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre under the dir ...
'' which met with excellent reviews when it played in Sydney (2010),
Washington, D.C.
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(2011) and Manhattan (2012)
She is the sister of
Mandy McElhinney.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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Uncle Vanya Wows New York
1974 births
Living people
21st-century Australian actresses
Australian stage actresses
Australian film actresses
Australian television actresses
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