Margaret Harvey (actress)

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Margaret Harvey
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Years active1995-

Margaret Harvey is an Australian actress and director. For her performance in RAN Remote Area Nurse she was nominated for the 2006 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama. [1]

Harvey has a lengthy stage career, [2] both as an actor and as a director. In 1996 and 97 she played the title character in Black Mary , a play about Aboriginal bushranger Maryanne Ward. [3] [4] [5] [6] In 2005 she played Medea in Belvoir Street Theatre's Black Medea, Wesley Enoch's reworking of Medea . [7] [8] [9] In 2021 she directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for State Theatre Company South Australia, giving it a new subtext by "colour-conscious casting". [10] [11] [12]

Harvey is a Torres Strait Islander [12] who was born on Saibai Island. [13]

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  10. McDonald, Patrick (18 September 2021), "Woolf in racial clothing", SA Weekend
  11. Cathcart, Michael (7 September 2021), "'Who's afraid of the truth?' — An Indigenous director tackles an American classic", ABC Radio National
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  13. Zlotkowski, Margo (8 September 2004), "Yorke Island stars in new mini-series", Cairns Post