Blazey Best | |
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| Occupation | Actress |
Blazey Best is an Australian actress. She has a long stage career [1] including performances as Cornelius and Emily in Then the Mountain Comes at the Australian Museum in 1994, [2] [3] as Tessa in Chair in a Landscape at the Q Theatre in 1995, [4] as Cressida in Troilus and Cressida at the Playhouse in 2000, [5] as Sybil in Fawlty Towers: The Play at Roslyn Packer Theatre in 2016, [6] as Rose in Gypsy at Hayes Theatre in 2018 [7] [8] and as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie at the Ensemble Theatre in 2025, [9] She playe Medea in Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks's reinterpretaion of Medea at the Belvoir Downstairs Theatre in 2012 [10] for which she won the best actress award at the 2012 Sydney Theatre Awards. [11]
She starred in the debuts of Brendan Cowell's early plays Men and Happy New at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Woolloomooloo in 2000 and 2001 respectively [12] [13] and ATM at the Sydney Festival in 2002, [14]
Her stage debut was as Katherine in Henry V with the Australian Theatre for Young People, for which she had originally asked if she could audition for the role of Henry. [15] [16]
Best has performed in musical theatre including in Hedwig and the Angry Inch , touring in 2006 [17] [18] and B-Girl at the Playhouse, Sydney Opera House in 2015 [19] both alongside iOTA. [20]
Best moved into directing with King of Pigs at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in 2018. [21] [22] She directed Tell Me on a Sunday at the Hayes Theatre in 2024. [23]
Best featured in the films Ten Empty [24] [25] and Powder Burn. [26] On TV she was in Good Cop/Bad Cop [27] and Between Two Worlds . [28]