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Caroline McKenzie is an Australian stage and screen actress. She is a member of the theatre and dance faculty at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. [1] [2]
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Caroline McKenzie is an Australian stage and screen actress. She is a member of the theatre and dance faculty at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. [1] [2]
Her television work includes Ship to Shore, The Shark Net and The Sleepover Club.
She appeared in two TV films about the 1982 theft of gold bullion from the Perth Mint : The Great Gold Swindle (1984) as Detective Cvijic and The Great Mint Swindle (2012) as Peg Mickelberg.
Her theatre work includes:
In The Turning, "a malevolent matriarch as corrosive in her effect on a family as any military dictator on a nation's destiny. Caroline McKenzie's Nan, steely and precise in gesture, is a fine study in understated menace." [5]
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