Isabella Dunwill

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Isabella Dunwill
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Isabella Dunwill

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Years active1998present

Isabella Dunwill is an Australian actress best known for her role in iconic Australian soap opera Neighbours .

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Initially signing on for a two-episode role as Geri Hallett, she was a recurring cast member between 1998 and 2001. Before this she had small parts in various Australian television shows, including Frontline and Horace and Tina .

After leaving Neighbours , Dunwill took roles in Australian television dramas Stingers and The Secret Life of Us . She has since studied at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art (graduating in 2003) and has had roles both on stage and on screen, including What the Butler Saw directed by Jim Sharman, for Belvoir Street Theatre Company B, feature film WIL [1] independent short film A Black and White World and television series Thank God You're Here .

Dunwill's other screen credits include: Carla Cametti PD , Satisfaction and Halifax f.p. and the AFI winning short film, The Projectionist.

On stage she appeared in Jim Sharman's production of What the Butler Saw (Belvoir Street, the Bell Shakespeare Company's Actors at Work tour 2007, Scarlett O'Hara at the Crimson Parrot workshop at Melbourne Theatre Company, Denise Baudu in The Department Store at the Old Fitzroy Theatre, Cassandra in Theatre @ Risk's Requiem for the 20th Century, and La Mama's The Devil's Dictionary.

Dunwill was also a motion capture artist for the feature film Constantine and various other popular computer games including Stalker.

She is the lead voice of Polvina the octopus sea princess in the animated children's series Sea Princesses [2] on Channel 7, the voice of Nina in the animated television series Pixel Pinkie on Channel 9 and the voice of Amy, the blue dressed teddy bear in the animated 3D television series Bananas in Pyjamas . [3]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleType
2006WILKate, the SecretaryFeature film
The ProjectionistShort film
2005 A Black and White World MaryShort film

Television

YearTitleRoleType
Frontline TV series
1998-2001 Neighbours Geri Hallett TV series, 2 episodes
2001 Horace and Tina TV series
Stingers TV series
The Secret Life of Us TV series
Thank God You're Here GuestTV series
2009 Carla Cametti PD TV miniseries
Satisfaction TV series
Halifax f.p. TV series
2008 Sea Princesses Polvina (voice)Animated TV series
2009-12 Pixel Pinkie Nina (voice)Animated TV series
2011-13 Bananas in Pyjamas Amy the Teddybear (voice)Animated TV series

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References

  1. "Wil (2006) - IMDb".
  2. "Sea Princesses (TV Series 2008– ) - IMDb".
  3. "Videos - Bananas in Pyjamas - ABC4Kids". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 17 November 2013.