Rebecca Frith

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Rebecca Frith
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Rebecca Frith is an Australian actress. [1] For her performance in Secret Bridesmaids' Business she was nominated for the 2002 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama. [2]

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Career

Frith played roles in the films Love Serenade , [3] Russian Doll [4] The Missing , [5] A Man's Gotta Do [6] and A Wreck A Tangle [7] and on TV in Secret Bridesmaids' Business [8]

Her stage career [9] includes Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera Theatre, 1989) [10] [11] Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera Theatre, 1989) [12] Natasha in Three Sisters (Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera Theatre, 1990), [13] Olivia in Twelfth Night (Q Theatre, Penrith, 1991), [14] [15] Blue Murder (Blevoir Theatre, 1994) [16] and Chilling & Killing My Annabel Lee (Cremorne Theatre, 2000) [1]

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