Alison Whyte

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Alison Whyte
Born1968 (age 5556)
Tasmania, Australia
Education Victorian College of the Arts
Occupation(s)Actress (stage and screen)

Alison Whyte (born 1968 in Tasmania) is an Australian actress best known for her roles on the Australian television series Frontline and Satisfaction .

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Acting career

A former student of classical ballet, Whyte graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts before rising to prominence on Australian television for her role as the moralising producer Emma Ward on Frontline , the ABC's parody of current affairs programs – a role for which she won the 1997 Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress. From 2007 to 2010 she played Lauren, the housewife-turned-prostitute on Satisfaction . She won the 2008 Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress for this role.

Her other television roles have included the legal comedy-drama Marshall Law in 2002 with Lisa McCune and William McInnes, and Good Guys Bad Guys . She has also guest starred in an episode of City Homicide . Whyte's film roles include the two-actor film Saturday Night , with Aaron Pedersen, and The Dressmaker directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. Whyte is also one of Australia's leading stage actors, with roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream , Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing. In 2008, she appeared in a production of David Williamson's play Don's Party at the Sydney Opera House.

In 2010, Whyte won Best Female Actor in Supporting Role in a Play at the 10th Annual Helpmann Awards for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in Richard III , directed by Simon Phillips. [1] She was also nominated for Best Female Actor in a Play in 2014 for The Bloody Chamber, and in 2017 for Faith Healer.

In 2021, Whyte appeared in the final series of Jack Irish. [2]

In 2023, Whyte appeared in Stan series Scrublands. [3]

In 2023/24, Whyte played Linda Loman opposite Anthony LaPaglia's Willy in an Australian production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman [4] .

Other work

From 1995 to 2007 Whyte and her husband Fred Whitlock ran the Terminus Hotel in Abbotsford, Melbourne. The couple then went on to own the Yarra Glen Grand Hotel, in the Yarra Valley, before selling it in 2015.

Whyte has visited Vietnam and Cambodia as a spokesperson for Oxfam.

Awards

AssociationAward/honourYearWorkResults
Logie Awards Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress1997 Frontline as Emma WardWon
Logie AwardSilver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress2000 Satisfaction Won
Helpmann Awards Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play 2010 Richard III as Queen Elizabeth II Won
Helpmann Awards Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play 2014The Bloody ChamberNominated
Helpmann AwardsHelpmann Award for Best Actor in a Play2017Faith HealerNominated


Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000Saturday NightSimone
2003 Subterano JD
2003RoundaboutAngela TaylorShort
2007 The Jammed Mrs. Glassman
2010Centre PlaceJo
2015 The Dressmaker Marigold Pettyman
2015EmilyEmilyShort

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1990BonyGinaTV series
1990 Neighbours Amber Martin Recurring role
1990 Skirts Natalie"Sons and Lovers"
1991 Kelly Cathy Taylor"The Fire"
1991 Boys from the Bush Eva"State and Commonwealth"
1993 All Together Now Harriet Guest"Killing Me Softly", "I Am Woman"
1994 Blue Heelers Janelle Davis"The First Stone"
1994–97 Frontline Emma WardMain role
1996The Glynn Nicholas ShowFifiRegular role
1996 G.P. Tracey"Drowning by Numbers"
1997 Kangaroo Palace BarbaraTV film
1997Good Guys Bad Guys: Only the Young Die GoodStella KinsellaTV film
1997–98 Good Guys, Bad Guys Stella KinsellaMain role
1998 State Coroner Jessica Geddes"Body of Evidence"
1998 Driven Crazy Mrs. BourkeMain role
1999 SeaChange Katrina Fennessy"Vaya Con Dios to All That", "Broken Hearts and Crustaceans", "Sink or Swim"
2000 Introducing Gary Petty Flight Attendant"The Flight Attendant Who Did Me Wrong"
2001Dogwoman: The Legend of DogwomanJacinta DaviesTV film
2002 Marshall Law Verity MarshallMain role
2003 CrashBurn Gillian"A Red Mexican Warehouse"
2006 Small Claims: The Reunion PipTV film
2006 Real Stories Vicky Welsh"1.2"
2007 City Homicide Petra Milde"Envelope Day"
2007–10 Satisfaction LaurenMain role
2009–10 Tangle Nicky BarnhamRecurring role
2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Joyce Gaskin"Death by Miss Adventure"
2015 The Doctor Blake Mysteries Monika Goodman"King of the Lake"
2015 Glitch Lucy Fitzgerald"Miracle or Punishment", "The Impossible Triangle"
2016 The Kettering Incident Deb RussellMain role
2021 Fisk (TV series) RuthClient with unusual request
2021 Jack Irish Nina PerskySeries 3, recurring role
2023ScrublandsCatherine BondTV Series "1.1" , "1.4"

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