Alexandra McTavish

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Alexandra McTavish
Ally McTavish at 2015 AACTA Awards, Sydney, Australia.jpg
Alexandra McTavish at 2015 AACTA Awards, Sydney, Australia
BornAlexandra
Hong Kong
Occupation Writer, actress, producer

Alexandra McTavish is an Australian actress, writer and producer best known for Neighbours (2014), House Husbands (2012), Mako Mermaids (2013), and her self-penned comedy, Sport (2015). Born in Hong Kong to Australian parents, she is also co-founder and producer of the Anywhere Festival.

<i>Neighbours</i> Australian soap opera

Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems together. Seven decided to commission the show following the success of Watson's shorter-lived soap Sons and Daughters, which aired on the network. Although successful in Melbourne, Neighbours underperformed in the Sydney market and struggled for months before Seven cancelled it. The show was immediately bought by rival network Ten. After taking over production of the show, the new network had to build replica sets because Seven destroyed the originals to prevent its rival from obtaining them. Ten began screening Neighbours on 20 January 1986, beginning where the previous series left off and commencing with episode 171. Neighbours has since become the longest running drama series in Australian television and in 2005, it was inducted collectively into the Logie Hall of Fame.

<i>House Husbands</i> television series

House Husbands is an Australian television comedy drama. The show debuted on the Nine Network on 2 September 2012. Set in Melbourne, House Husbands stars Firass Dirani, Gyton Grantley, Rhys Muldoon and Gary Sweet as four fathers who stay at home to raise their children. The program also focuses on their interconnected families and friends. In 2013, House Husbands won Most Popular Drama Series at the 2013 Logie Awards. In February 2018, Nine confirmed the series would not be returning for a sixth season and was officially cancelled.

Hong Kong East Asian city

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and commonly abbreviated as HK, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth most densely populated region.

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Personal life

McTavish grew up in Hong Kong but moved to Australia to attend the University of Queensland, graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Journalism in broadcasting. She subsequently relocated to the UK to study acting at Rose Bruford College . Growing up she also loved to write so she then pursued writing, and finally screenwriting at Australia's national screen arts and broadcast school, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

University of Queensland university in Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ) is a public research university primarily located in Queensland's capital city, Brisbane, Australia. Founded in 1909 by the state parliament, UQ is Australia's fifth oldest university and is colloquially known as a sandstone university. UQ is considered to be one of Australia's leading universities, and is ranked as the 48th most reputable university in the world. The University of Queensland is a founding member of online higher education consortium edX, Australia's research-intensive Group of Eight, and the global Universitas 21 network.

The Bachelor of Journalism (B.J.) degree is a degree awarded at some universities to students who have studied journalism in a three or four year undergraduate program. In the United States, some schools that do not award the B.J. degree instead confer a Bachelor of Arts, Journalism (B.A.J.), Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication (B.A.J.M.C.) or Bachelor of Science, Journalism (BSJ) that is often part of or in conjunction with a course of study in mass communication. Yet another epithetological version of the degree, conferred by The Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, is the A.B.J. degree, the Latin equivalent of the B.J./B.A.J.

Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance is a drama school in the south London suburb of Sidcup. The college has degree programmes in acting, actor musicianship, theatre arts, and various disciplines of stagecraft.

Film and television

Actress

YearTitleRoleNotes
2016The LegacyLeadShort film
2016An Angel of LightSupportingFeature film
2016Tabernacle 101SupportFeature film
2014-15 House Husbands Guest RoleTV series
2015SportLeadTV series (pilot)
2014, 2017 Neighbours GuestTV series
2013White Blank PageLeadShort film
2013 Mako Mermaids GuestTV series
2012 Bad Karma FeaturedFeature film
2011HeadsmenSupportShort film
2010UndertowStuntsFilm
2009The Fall of ErebusLeadShort film
2009Dirty Step UpstageFeaturedFeature film
2008EssayetteLeadFeature film
2007 South of Pico FeaturedFeature film
2007 All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane FeaturedFeature film
2007 The Starter Wife FeaturedTV series
2007 South of Pico FeaturedFeature film

Producer

Anywhere Festival is an annual Brisbane based festival for performance anywhere but traditional theatre spaces. The first anywhere-but-in-a-traditional-theatre concept was brought to Brisbane in 2011 by creative director Paul Osuch and his partner, Ally McTavish. Their theory is that we need to take traditional story-telling out of theatre buildings and back to where life really takes place, in the community.

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