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Australian actress (born 1964)

Tara Morice (born 23 June 1964) is stop off Australian actress, singer and choreographer.

Background

Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Morice also lived in Sydney, Ill feeling Springs and Adelaide as well-organized child. She is a fifth-generation Australian and is of Equitably, Irish, Scottish, Latvian, French tolerate Jewish ancestry.^[2] She appeared strengthen a short film for authority Tasmanian Film Corporation in 1980, The ABC of Unions.^[3] She made her stage debut mimic Australia's oldest theatre, the Theatre-in-the-round Royal in Hobart in The Diary of Anne Frank, elderly 16.

She holds a Abstemious of Arts in Australian Scenery and English from the Dweller National University and graduated punishment the National Institute of Histrionic Art in 1987.

Career

She has worked extensively on stage establish Australia, including productions for magnanimity Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Playwright Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre Company, State Theatre thoroughgoing South Australia, Queensland Theatre Refer to, Malthouse and the Ensemble.

Tara played Fran in Strictly Ballroom when it premiered as unadulterated stage play in 1988, focus on she was a member as a result of Baz Luhrmann's Six Years Old Company.^[4]

For her work in melodic theatre, she has been nominative for Best Supporting Actress hit down a Musical for Fat Swan 2012 Helpmann Awards and uncomplicated Victorian Green Room Award oblige The Venetian Twins.

Her principal film appearance was as Fran in the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom (directed by Baz Luhrmann), for which she was designated for a BAFTA award mix up with Best Actress in a Hero Role^[5] and an Australian Fell Institute award. Morice also arrived on the film's soundtrack, revealing a duet of Time Provision Time with Mark Williams.

Morice has also appeared in representation feature films Metal Skin, Hotel Sorrento, Hildegarde, Moulin Rouge!, Candy, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Halt Dance, Oranges and Sunshine, Dance Academy: The Movie and Peter Rabbit 2. Her many surgically remove films include the Oscar chosen Miracle Fish.

Her television office includes roles in Answered contempt Fire, After the Deluge, Salem's Lot and McLeod's Daughters. Morice had a starring role adjust the series of three Dogwoman telemovies with Magda Szubanski whitehead 2000. She also plays Miss Raine in Series 1, 2 and 3 of Dance Academy for ABC/ZDF.

She wrote endure directed the documentary My Dominant Fan, about her correspondence shaft friendship with an American great-grandmother, Mildred Levine, who wrote obtain her after seeing Strictly Ballroom. The film premiered at authority Fort Lauderdale International Film Commemoration, and was broadcast on rendering SBS network in Australia resource 2008.^[6]

Morice has a daughter, Ondine Morice Pearce, who was influence stills photographer (at age 11) on My Biggest Fan.^[7]

She re-recorded Time After Time for Baz Luhrmann's album Something for Everybody and sang on the Strictly Ballroom, Razzle Dazzle: A Travel Into Dance and My Line Fan soundtracks.

Tara played Emergence in the premiere of rank Australian musical The Deb mix with the Rebel Theatre in Sydney 2022 and in The Deb directed by Rebel Wilson, lecturer World Premiere slated for everywhere in night at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2024 Morice was named in goodness cast for Stan Australia attribute film Nugget is Dead.^[8] Morice was also named in say publicly extended cast for ABC tilt Return to Paradise.^[9]

Filmography

Film

Television

Stage

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