Hollie Andrew is an Australian film, television and stage actress.
Early life and education
Andrew was born and raised in
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
.
She graduated from
Flinders University
Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator ...
(SA) in 1999 with an
Honours Degree
Honours degree has various meanings in the context of different degrees and education systems. Most commonly it refers to a variant of the undergraduate bachelor's degree containing a larger volume of material or a higher standard of study, or ...
in Drama. She then attended 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 ...
(WAAPA), graduating with a
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
in Musical Theatre in 2002.
Career
Andrew's first major role was in the 2004 film ''
Somersault
A somersault (also ''flip'', ''heli'', and in gymnastics ''salto'') is an acrobatic exercise in which a person's body rotates 360° around a horizontal axis with the feet passing over the head. A somersault can be performed forwards, backwards ...
'', where she appeared alongside
Abbie Cornish
Abbie Cornish (born 7 August 1982) is an Australian actress. Cornish is best known for her film roles as Heidi in ''Somersault'' (2004), Fanny Brawne in '' Bright Star'' (2009), Sweet Pea in ''Sucker Punch'' (2011), Lindy in '' Limitless'' (20 ...
and
Sam Worthington
Samuel Henry John Worthington (born 2 August 1976) is an Australian actor. He is best known for playing Jake Sully in ''Avatar'' and its sequel, ''Avatar: The Way of Water''; Marcus Wright in ''Terminator Salvation'', and Perseus in '' Clash o ...
; she was nominated for the
for her role as Bianca. She then appeared in the satirical ABC comedy series ''
Double the Fist
''Double the Fist'' is an Australian satire, satirical television show which airs on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It follows the misadventures of four men and their pursuit of "fistworthiness": Television presenter, host Steve Foxx (C ...
'' and featured in two series of BBC/UKTV comedy series ''
Supernova
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'' as Dr Jude Wardlaw. In June 2009 she starred in a production of ''Metro Street'' in Korea with
Debra Byrne
Debra Anne Byrne (born 30 March 1957), formerly billed as Debbie Byrne, is an Australian pop singer, variety entertainer, theatre and TV actress and writer, director and choreographer of cabaret. From April 1971 to March 1975 she was a founding ...
, adding to her catalogue of
musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movemen ...
work.
She was a cast member of the short-lived 2009 sketch comedy TV series ''
Double Take''.
She appeared in the 2014
Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television netw ...
miniseries ''
Fat Tony & Co.''
Other television credits include ''
CNNNN
''CNNNN'' (''Chaser NoN-stop News Network'') is a Logie Award winning Australian television program, satirising American news channels CNN and Fox News. It was produced and hosted by comedy team The Chaser.
''CNNNNs slogan was "We Report, You ...
'', ''
Life Support
Life support comprises the treatments and techniques performed in an emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs. Healthcare providers and emergency medical technicians are generally certified to perform basic ...
'', ''
Home and Away
''Home and Away'' (often abbreviated as ''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip ...
'', and ''
All Saints''.
In 2014 she was in talks to co-direct and costar in a film entitled ''Ebonny''.
Stage
Stage credits are ''The Adventure Of
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie
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'', directed by
Neil Armfield
Neil Geoffrey Armfield (born 22 April 1955) is an Australian director of theatre, film and opera.
Biography
Born in Sydney, Armfield is the third and youngest son of Len, a factory worker at the nearby Arnott's Biscuits factory and Nita Armf ...
(Company B); Wrong Turn at Lungfish & Ruby Sunrise (Ensemble Theatre), Hair! (Production Company), Jumping The Q and 5th At Randwick (Naked Theatre Company), ''
The Last Five Years
''The Last Five Years'' is a musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It premiered at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2001 and was then produced Off-Broadway in March 2002. Since then it has had numerous productions both in the United States and ...
'' (Echelon Productions), and the Music by Moonlight Concert Series conducted by George Ellis at
Sydney Olympic Park
Sydney Olympic Park is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, located 13 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Parramatta Council. It is commonly known as Olympic Park but officially na ...
. Andrew performed alongside
Casey Donovan and Christine Anu in the Company B and the Black Swan Theatre production of ''
The Sapphires''. In 2014 she toured Australia with a new stage version of ''
Wogboys''.
Short film
Andrew's short film credits include ''Love and Contempt'' (Jo Mitchell Productions), ''
Second Draft
Pallywood, a portmanteau of "Palestinian" and "Hollywood", is a coinage used to describe supposed media manipulation, distortion or fraud by some Palestinians putatively designed to win the public relations war with Israel. The term came into cur ...
'' (Housebound Productions), and ''Anniversary'' (Michael Neild).
Awards and honors
* 2002 Leslie Anderson Theatre Award for The Most Promising Newcomer to Western Australia Performing Arts
* AFI Nomination 2005: Best Supporting Actress in the role of Bianca in ''Somersault''
* In February 2010, Andrew received a
Glug Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Suzie Tyrone in ''The Ruby Sunrise''.
Personal life
Andrew lived from 2011 to 2013 in
Los Angeles
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. She returned to Australia in 2013 after being cast in ''Fat Tony & Co.''
She currently lives on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
References
External links
*
*http://au.tv.yahoo.com/double-take/meet-the-team/article/-/article/5671440/hollie-andrew/
*http://www.femail.com.au/hollie-andrew.htm
*https://web.archive.org/web/20091012225448/http://www.markmorrissey.com.au/profiles/AndrewHollie_cv.php
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Actresses from Adelaide
Australian stage actresses
Australian television actresses
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts alumni