Leah Purcell — Carmel
Leah Purcell is one of Australia’s leading actresses.
Her performance alongside Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey
Rush in Ray Lawrence’s “Lantana” brought her recognition
when, jointly with the other female leads, she received
the Independent Filmmaker Award for Best Actress,
as well as a nomination for a Film Critics’ Circle
of Australia Award. She followed this success with
roles in the award-winning Somersault, and the 2005
AFI winner “The Propositio”n. Prior to this she
appeared in the short feature Lennie Cahill “Shoots
Through” and “Somewhere in the Darkness”. Ms Purcell’s
first regular television role was in the hit series
“Police Rescue”, followed by an Australian Film
Institute Best Actress nomination for her role in
“Fallen Angels”. She has had enormous success on
stage, including with her triumphant, self-devised,
one- woman show, “Box the Pony” which toured to
London and the Edinburgh Festival. Most recently
she gained great acclaim for her portrayal of Condoleeza
Rice in David Hare’s play “Stuff Happens” in sellout
seasons in both Sydney and Melbourne.
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