Leah Purcell

Leah Purcell (born 14 August, 1970) is an Australian actress from Murgon in the Kingaroy district of Queensland.

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Kingaroy - Queensland

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She is an accomplished film, television and theatre actor, singer, director and playwright.

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She is the youngest of six children of Aboriginal and white Australian descent. Her father was a boxing trainer.

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After a difficult adolescence, looking after her sick mother, who died in her late teens, she had turned to drink, and become a mother herself, Leah finally left Murgon and moved to Brisbane and became involved with community theatre.

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In 1996 she moved to Sydney to become presenter on a music video cable television station, RED Music Channel. This was followed by roles in the ABC television series Police Rescue and Fallen Angels and a play, which she co-wrote and acted in, called Box the Pony, which played at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, the 1999 Edinburgh Festival and in 2000 at the Barbican in London.

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Sydney - RED Music Channel - ABC - Police Rescue - Box the Pony - Belvoir Street Theatre - Sydney Opera House - Edinburgh Festival - Barbican

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She has since acted in the acclaimed Australian film Lantana starring Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey Rush and in the theatre in The Vagina Monologues and in 2004 the films

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Lantana - Anthony LaPaglia - Geoffrey Rush - The Vagina Monologues

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Somersault, The Proposition (starring Guy Pearce and Emily Watson and written by Nick Cave) and Jindabyne (starring Gabriel Byrne) as well as playing the role of Condoleezza Rice in David Hare's play, Stuff Happens in Sydney and Melbourne.

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Somersault - The Proposition - Guy Pearce - Emily Watson - Nick Cave - Jindabyne - Gabriel Byrne - Condoleezza Rice - David Hare's - Stuff Happens - Melbourne

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