Susie Porter | |
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Born | 1970or1971(age 52–53) Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
Education | National Institute of Dramatic Art (BFA) |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1996–present |
Known for | |
Spouse | Christopher Mordue (m. 2010) |
Susie Porter (born 1970 or 1971) [1] is an Australian television, film and theatre actress. She made her debut in the 1996 film Idiot Box , before rising to prominence in films including Paradise Road (1997), Welcome to Woop Woop (1997), Two Hands (1999), Better Than Sex (2000), The Monkey's Mask (2000), Mullet (2001), Teesh and Trude (2002), and The Caterpillar Wish (2006). Porter is also highly recognised for her roles in television series, most notably, as Patricia Wright in East West 101 , Eve Pritchard in East of Everything , as Kay Parker in Sisters of War , and as Marie Winter in the prison drama, Wentworth .
Porter was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, to Bill, a doctor, and Jenny, a nurse. She has two older sisters, Cathy and Jackie, and a younger sister, Louise. [1] [2] Porter attended Newcastle Grammar School and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Newcastle. [1] [3] She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1995. [4] Porter revealed in 2024 in an interview with 9honey that she was originally going to audition at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts but ended up with food poisoning and couldn't attend that audition. [5]
Porter is married to Christopher Mordue, the two married in 2010. [6]
Porter in 2022 penned a letter to the NSW State Government urging the Agriculture Minister Dugald Saunders to end all puppy farms across the state. [7]
Porter began her acting career in an episode of House Gang , a short lived television program. She then had small roles in other Australian television programs in the late 1990s, including Big Sky , Wildside and Water Rats .
In 2006, Porter had a leading role in RAN , an Australian mini-series, which won her a Best Leading Actress in a Television Drama at the AFI Awards. In late 2007, she appeared in East West 101 , a six-part drama series that aired on SBS. In 2008, Porter appeared in East of Everything (a six-part drama series that aired on the ABC) and in the mini-series Make Or Break (an English and Australian production that aired on Foxtel's UKTV).
In 2009, Porter appeared on the second seasons of both East of Everything and East West 101, and first run The Jesters and My Place. In 2010, she appeared on the telemovie Sisters of War as Kay Parker. In 2011, she appeared in the third, and final season, of East West 101. In 2012, she appeared on Channel Ten's mini-series Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms . She played Pam Knight in Puberty Blues from 2012 to 2014. [8]
In 2017, Porter was cast in the Foxtel drama series Wentworth in the main role Marie Winter; [9] the role was originally portrayed by Maggie Millar in Prisoner . Porter first appeared in Wentworth during the fourth episode of the sixth season, broadcast on 10 July 2018. [10] She reprised her role as Marie Winter in the seventh season in 2019, and again in the eighth and final season which premiered in 2020 and ended in 2021. She made her final appearance in penultimate episode of the final season.
In 2024, Porter was named in the cast for ABC drama Plum. [11]
In 1996, Porter made her film debut in Idiot Box . [12] In 1997, she starred as Angie in the Australian comedy Welcome to Woop Woop . [13] In 1999, she had a major role in Two Hands . In 2000, she starred in the film Bootmen and in the crime drama film The Monkey's Mask , which she plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect, for which she won the award for 'Best Actress' at the Dallas OUT TAKES festival in 2001. [14] In 2001, she appeared in the Australian movie Mullet and had a small role in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones . [15]
In 2005, Porter had a supporting role in the Australian film Little Fish . In 2006, she had a role in the film The Caterpillar Wish which won her Best Supporting Actress in the AFI Awards.
In 2015, Porter starred in Is This the Real World.
Porter appeared in 2022 film Gold [16] which was filmed in South Australia.
In 2023, Porter appeared in the short film Waves at Bondi's Flickerfest. [17]
In 2024, Porter was announced as part of the cast for Dirty Boy. [18] On 6 August, Porter was announced as part of the cats for the film Overture. [19]
Date | Title | Role | Notes |
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2000 | Sweet Phoebe | Stables Theatre | |
2001 | The Vagina Monologues | Valhalla Cinema | |
2005 | Broken Valley | Belvoir Theatre | |
2006 | The Emperor of Sydney | Stables Theatre | |
2007 | Riflemind | Sydney Theatre Company | |
2010 | That Face | Belvoir Theatre | |
2011 | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Olive | Belvoir Theatre [20] |
2015 | Death and the Maiden | Paulina | Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996 | Idiot Box | Betty | Feature film |
Mr. Reliable | Fay | Feature film | |
1997 | Paradise Road | Oggi | Feature film |
Welcome to Woop Woop | Angie | Feature film | |
1998 | Amy | Anny Buchanan | Feature film |
Aftershocks | Marg Turnbull | TV movie | |
1999 | Two Hands | Deirdre | Feature film |
Feeling Sexy | Vicki | Feature film | |
2000 | Better Than Sex | Cin | Feature film |
The Monkey's Mask | Jill Fitzpatrick | Feature film | |
Bootmen | Sara | Feature film | |
2001 | Mullet | Tully | Feature film |
2002 | Sway | Emma | Feature film |
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | Hermione Bagwa / WA-7 | Feature film | |
Teesh and Trude | Letitia (Teesh) | Feature film | |
2005 | Cool | Lucy | Short film |
Little Fish | Jenny Moss | Feature film | |
2006 | The Caterpillar Wish | Susan Woodbridge | Feature film |
No Mail | Antonia Short | Short film | |
2007 | The Manual | Mai | Short film |
Flipsical | Sue | Short film | |
2009 | Lonely | Mum | Short film |
2010 | Summer Coda | Angela | Feature film |
Sisters of War | Kay Parker | TV movie | |
2012 | Dangerous Remedy | Peggy Berman | TV movie |
2016 | Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches | Herself | Feature film documentary |
2017 | Don't Tell | Sue | Feature film |
Hounds of Love | Maggie Maloney | Feature film | |
Cargo | Kay Caine | Feature film | |
2018 | Ladies in Black | Mrs. Miles | Feature film |
The Second | The Muse | Feature film | |
2022 | Gold | The Stranger, The Stranger's Sister | Feature film |
2023 | Transfusion | Magistrate | Feature film |
Waves | Sam | Short film | |
Mercy Road | |||
2024 | Dirty Boy | Verity Wentworth | Feature film |
In The Room Where He Waits | Mum | ||
TBA | Overture | Film | |
An Ordinary Day | Feature film |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
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1996 | Beck | TV reporter | 1 episode | |
1996 | House Gang | Bottle Shop Girl | TV series, episode: "Truth or Dare" | |
1997 | Big Sky | Tracy | TV series, episode: "Duke of Yarragul" | |
1998 | Wildside | Debbie | TV series, episodes: "1.6", "1.7" | |
Children's Hospital | Frances Clarke | TV series, episode: "Tears Before Bedtime" | ||
Water Rats | Julie Drummond | TV series, episode: "Heads or Tales" | ||
2001 | The Secret Life of Us | Pandora | TV series, episode: "Secrets and Lies" | |
2003 | State of Play | Susan Sagattchean | TV miniseries | |
Silent Witness | Maxine Croft | TV series, 2 episodes: "Answering Fire": Part 1 & Part 2 | ||
2006 | RAN Remote Area Nurse | Helen Tremaine | TV series, 6 episodes | |
Love My Way | Christine | TV series, 4 episodes | ||
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King | Sally Blair Kinnell | TV series, episode: "The Road Virus Heads North" | ||
Two Twisted | Sam | TV series, episode: "Delivery Man" | ||
2007–11 | East West 101 | Patricia Wright | TV series, 20 episodes | |
2008–09 | East of Everything | Eve Pritchard | TV series, 13 episodes | |
2009 | My Place | Miss Muller | TV series, 7 episodes | |
2009–11 | The Jesters | Julia Wilson | TV series, 16 episodes | |
2012–14 | Puberty Blues | Pam Knight | TV series | |
2012 | Dance Academy | Anne Black | TV series, 3 episodes | |
Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms | Vanessa Ross | TV miniseries | ||
Problems | Mrs Moth | TV series, 4 episodes | ||
2013 | Underbelly | Rose Taylor | 6 episodes | |
2014 | It's a Date | Jocelyn | 1 episode | |
2014-15 | Plonk | Evelyn Tyler | 4 episodes | |
2017 | Seven Types of Ambiguity (TV series) | Gina Serkin | 4 episodes | |
Janet King (TV series) | Maxine Reynolds | TV series; 6 episodes | [22] | |
Pulse | Maggie Cutter | TV series; 7 episodes | ||
2018–21 | Wentworth | Marie Winter | TV series, season 6−8, 38 episodes | |
2020 | Hungry Ghosts | Catheine Taylor | TV series: 3 episodes | |
2021 | The Unusual Suspects | Rae | TV miniseries, 2 episodes | |
2022 | Irreverent | Agnes | TV miniseries, 5 episodes | |
Grey Nomads | Barb | TV series, 6 episodes | ||
2023 | No Escape | Sarah Craven | TV series, 7 episodes | [23] [24] |
The Artful Dodger | Lady Jane Fox | 7 episodes | ||
2024 | Plum | Sarah | TV series | [25] |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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2021 | 11th AACTA Awards | Herself | TV special | |
Wentworth Unlocked | Self | TV Special | [26] | |
Today | Guest | TV series, 1 episode | ||
2020 | The Morning Show | Guest | TV series, 1 episode | |
Wentworth: Behind the Bars 2 | Self | TV Special | [27] | |
2019 | Wentworth: Behind the Bars | Self | TV Special | |
Screen | Herself | TV series, 1 episode | ||
The 61st Annual TV Week Logie Awards | Herself | TV special | ||
2018 | Today | Guest (with Rachael Blake) | TV series, 1 episode | |
Today Extra | Guest (with Rachael Blake) | TV series, 1 episode | ||
2014 | The Living Room | Guest | TV series, 1 episode | |
2013 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Herself | TV series, episode: "Susie Porter" | |
2011 | Inside Film Awards | Herself | TV special | |
2010 | The 52nd TV Week Logie Awards | Herself / Patricia Wright | TV special | |
The Morning Show | Guest | TV series, 1 episode | ||
2002 | Cleo Bachelor 2002: Real Men Revealed | Herself | TV special | |
2001 | Rove (TV series) | Herself | TV series: 1 episode | |
2000 | The Movie Show | Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
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