Alison Whyte | |
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Born | 1968 (age 54–55) 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 .
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.
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.
Association | Award/honour | Year | Work | Results |
Logie Awards | Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress | 1997 | Frontline as Emma Ward | Won |
Logie Award | Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress | 2000 | 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 | 2014 | The Bloody Chamber | Nominated |
Helpmann Awards | Helpmann Award for Best Actor in a Play | 2017 | Faith Healer | Nominated |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2000 | Saturday Night | Simone | |
2003 | Subterano | JD | |
2003 | Roundabout | Angela Taylor | Short |
2007 | The Jammed | Mrs. Glassman | |
2010 | Centre Place | Jo | |
2015 | The Dressmaker | Marigold Pettyman | |
2015 | Emily | Emily | Short |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1990 | Bony | Gina | TV 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 Ward | Main role |
1996 | The Glynn Nicholas Show | Fifi | Regular role |
1996 | G.P. | Tracey | "Drowning by Numbers" |
1997 | Kangaroo Palace | Barbara | TV film |
1997 | Good Guys Bad Guys: Only the Young Die Good | Stella Kinsella | TV film |
1997–98 | Good Guys, Bad Guys | Stella Kinsella | Main role |
1998 | State Coroner | Jessica Geddes | "Body of Evidence" |
1998 | Driven Crazy | Mrs. Bourke | Main 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" |
2001 | Dogwoman: The Legend of Dogwoman | Jacinta Davies | TV film |
2002 | Marshall Law | Verity Marshall | Main role |
2003 | CrashBurn | Gillian | "A Red Mexican Warehouse" |
2006 | Small Claims: The Reunion | Pip | TV film |
2006 | Real Stories | Vicky Welsh | "1.2" |
2007 | City Homicide | Petra Milde | "Envelope Day" |
2007–10 | Satisfaction | Lauren | Main role |
2009–10 | Tangle | Nicky Barnham | Recurring 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 Russell | Main role |
2021 | Fisk (TV series) | Ruth | Client with unusual request |
2021 | Jack Irish | Nina Persky | Series 3, recurring role |
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