Maeve Dermody
| Maeve Dermody | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Dermody at the AACTA Awards in January 2012 | |
| Born |
1 January 1985 Sydney, New South Wales |
Maeve Dermody (born 1 January 1985) is an Australian actress. After a film appearance as a child (age 5), her adult acting career has included work in Australian television, theatre, short films and movies. She characterizes her own acting goal as "to be able to play different characters every time, without traces of myself".[1]
Early life
She is the daughter of Susan Murphy Dermody, a film theorist, historian, and director. Her father is a psychologist. Dermody's family encouraged a love of literature and the arts, and supported performing as well - her mother gave Dermody her first part when she was 5 years old in the film her mother directed Breathing Under Water (1993).[2] Dermody attended Mosman High School in Sydney with a near-perfect UAI (99.97).[3][2] During high school she was active in drama classes, as well as the Australian Theatre for Young People, and furthered her acting education with several courses at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
Career
While still in high school, Dermody began getting roles in Australian television series such as All Saints (1998), and in short films. Her first major film role was in the independent thriller Black Water (2007), about a trio of people trapped in the mangroves of the North Territory by a menacing Saltwater Crocodile.[1] Dermody's performance in "Black Water" earned her multiple nominations for Best Supporting Actress awards in the Australian film industry. Her next major film role was in Beautiful Kate (2009), for which she was again nominated for the AFI Best Supporting Actress Award.[1][4] She had a lead role in the 2010 well-received film Griff the Invisible, and in the 2012 miniseries Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms.[4][1]
In 2013, Dermody starred in the 10-part TV series drama Serangoon Road as Claire Simpson who is married to Frank (played by Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) but having an affair with Sam (played by Don Hany).[5]
Dermody is also active in the Australian theatre, having appeared in such diverse productions as Killer Joe, Measure for Measure, Our Town,[2] and played Nina in The Seagull, all for the major theatre companies in Sydney.[3]
At Christmas, 2015, Dermody starred as Vera Claythorne in BBC One's version of Agatha Christie's thriller And Then There Were None.[6]
Personal life
Dermody was in a relationship with actor Sam Worthington for 3 years before breaking up in 2008.[2]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Breathing Under Water | Maeve | |
| 2003 | All Shook Up | Billy | Short |
| 2003 | White Collar Blue | Amanda Payne | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2006 | A Fairytale of the City | The Girl | Short |
| 2006 | Secretary | Pilot for TV series | |
| 2006 | All Saints | Taylor Patterson | TV series (1 episode "Truth Hurts") |
| 2006 | Monarch Cove | Charlotte Lee | TV series (1 episode) |
| 2007 | Walnut | Ghyselle | Short |
| 2007 | Black Water | Lee | |
| 2007, 2009 | The Chaser's War on Everything | Various | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2009 | Shot Open | Amelia Walsh | Short |
| 2009 | Past Midnight | Ginny | Short |
| 2009 | Beautiful Kate | Toni | |
| 2009 | My Place | Evelyn | TV series (1 episode: "1918 Bertie") |
| 2009 | At the Breakfast Table | Short | |
| 2010 | Griff the Invisible | Melody | |
| 2010 | Magpie | Martha | Short |
| 2011 | Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo | Rachel Carr | TV mini-series |
| 2012 | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Eunice Henderson | TV series (1 episode: "Murder on the Ballarat Train") |
| 2012 | Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms | Lee | TV series (6 episodes) |
| 2012 | Rake | Polly Nesbitt | TV series (2 episodes) |
| 2012 | Dangerous Remedy | Jo Wainer | TV film |
| 2012 | Almost | Emily | Short |
| 2013 | Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story | Anna Murdoch | TV miniseries |
| 2013 | Serangoon Road | Claire Simpson | TV series (10 episodes) |
| 2013 | Greg's First Day | Mandy | Short |
| 2014 | The Fear of the Darkness | Dr. Sarah Faithfull | |
| 2015 | And Then There Were None | Vera Claythorne | BBC One miniseries |
| 2016 | 2:22 | Sandy | |
| 2016 | Marcella | Grace Gibson | ITV miniseries |
References
- 1 2 3 4 Spring, Alexandra (5 April 2012). "Actress Maeve Dermody gets lost in her work". Vogue. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 "Maeve Dermody Gets All the Hot Boys". Au.lifestyle.yahoo.com. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
- 1 2 Roach, Vicky (16 March 2011). "Maeve Dermody has a genius to act in Griff the Invisible and The Seagull". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- 1 2 Wasley, Alice (29 April 2012). "All revved up for new miniseries in Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms". Daily Telegraph. Sydney, New South Wales: News Ltd. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
- ↑ "Don Hany and Maeve Dermody's Serangoon Road journey". news.com.au. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
- ↑ "One: And then there were none: Vera Claythorne". BBC. Retrieved 2015-12-26.
External links
Maeve Dermody at the Internet Movie Database
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