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List Of Flinders University People
This is an incomplete list of Flinders University people including notable alumni and staff associated with the Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. Graduates of Flinders University include: * Australian of the Year: Richard Harris * Fields Medalist (for maths): Terry Tao * Several Rhodes scholars The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom. The scholarship is open to people from all backgrounds around the world. Established in 1902, it is ... Other notable alumni include: Arts and humanities Creatives *Mario Andreacchio – film director and producer *Michael Atkinson (composer), Michael Atkinson – (founding member of Redgum) *Benedict Andrews – theatre director (Flinders Drama Centre) *Matthew Bate (filmmaker), Matthew Bate – filmmaker, of Closer Productions *Geordie Brookman – theatre director (Flinders Drama Centre) *Matthew Cormack – filmmaker, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from "to nourish". The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former members of an organization, former contributors, or former inmates. Etymology The Latin noun means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from the Latin verb "to nourish". Separate, but from the same root, is the adjective "nourishing", found in the phrase '' alma mater'', a title for a person's home university. Usage in Roman law In Latin, is a legal term (Roman law) to describe a child placed in foster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Cormack
Closer Productions is a film and television production company founded by filmmakers Sophie Hyde and Bryan Mason in Adelaide, South Australia, in January 2004. It is known for award-winning feature films such as ''52 Tuesdays'' (2013) and ''Animals'' (2019), as well as television series and documentary films. History Closer Productions was founded by Hyde and Mason, who are personal as well as professional partners, having both graduated from Flinders University in 1997. They began Closer Productions in 2004 and produced their first work under the Closer banner in 2005. Writer Matthew Cormack joined the pair soon afterwards, and Matthew Bate came in 2010; both of them are Flinders graduates too. Previously, Bate had his own company, Plexus Films, but after working on separate projects after winning FilmLab funding, with Bate having his short film ''The Mystery of Flying Kicks'', he and the Closer team decided to amalgamate. Closer Productions was registered as a private comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Now
''The Advertiser'' is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named ''The South Australian Advertiser'' on 12 July 1858,''The South Australian Advertiser'', published 1858–1889 , National Library of Australia, digital newspaper library. it is currently a tabloid printed from Monday to Saturday. ''The Advertiser'' came under the ownership of in the 1950s, and the full ownership of in 1987. It is a publication of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Hyde
Sophie Hyde (born 1977) is an Australian film director, writer, and producer based in Adelaide, South Australia. She is co-founder of Closer Productions and known for her award-winning debut fiction film, '' 52 Tuesdays'' (2013) and the comedy drama ''Animals'' (2019). She has also made several documentaries, including ''Life in Movement'' (2011), a documentary about dancer and choreographer Tanja Liedtke, and television series, such as '' The Hunting'' (2019). Her latest film, '' Good Luck to You, Leo Grande'', premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2022. Her upcoming film '' Jimpa'' stars Olivia Colman and John Lithgow. Early life and education Sophie Hyde was born in Adelaide in 1977. As a teenager, she learnt acting skills at the Unley Youth Theatre (later Urban Myth), where she met some of her future colleagues. She later studied film theatre at Flinders University in Adelaide and followed up at La Trobe University in Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Huggins
Jacqueline Gail "Jackie" Huggins (born 19 August 1956) is an Aboriginal Australian author, historian, academic, and advocate for the rights of Indigenous Australians. She has been active in the reconciliation movement, and was co-commissioner for Queensland for the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families from 1995 to 1997. Until 2017, she was deputy director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit at the University of Queensland. She co-chaired the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples until 2019, when she was appointed co-chair of Queensland Government's Treaty Working Group and Eminent Treaty Process Panel. She has also served on many other boards and organisations in various capacities, and published several books. In April 2025, Huggins was appointed as the inaugural Elder-in-residence at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Early life and education Jacqueline Gail Huggins was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimee Horne
Aimée Rene Horne (born 11 May 1985) is an Australian actress and singer. She has worked in film, theatre, radio and television and is an established voice-over artist. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art ( NIDA). Biography Horne is best known for an epic seven month Australian tour of 'Fawlty Towers Live' playing 'Polly', directed by John Cleese and CJay Ranger. Horne has starred in productions for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC), Griffin Theatre and the ABC, as well as touring nationally for Company B (Belvoir) and Arts Radar. Aimee received a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for her role in the Tamarama Rock Surfers The Tamarama Rock Surfers was an independent theatre company that operated out of the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Sydney, Australia, and beyond. After 18 years, the group ceased trading in December 2015 due to lack of funding. History The Tamarama ... (TRS) production of ''The Highway Crossing''. Horne has receive great critical accl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Hope
Nicholas Hope is a British-born Australian actor, known for the lead role in the 1993 film '' Bad Boy Bubby''. Early life and education Born in Manchester, England, Hope's family emigrated to the steel and shipbuilding town of Whyalla, South Australia, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. Career Hope played the lead role in '' Bad Boy Bubby'' (1993). He appeared in '' The School'' in 2018, and '' Moon Rock For Monday'', directed by Kurt Martin and produced by Jim Robison in 2021. In 2004, he published a memoir called ''Brushing the Tip of Fame'', and in 2006 produced a monologue "The Colour of Panic", which played in Sydney (The Studio, Sydney Opera House) and Oslo (Det Åpne Teater). Recognition and awards Hope won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994 for his role in ''Bad Boy Bubby''. A portrait of Hope appears in the National Portrait Gallery. Partial filmography * ''Confessor Caressor'' (1989) * '' Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Hill
Victoria Hill (born 18 February 1971 in Adelaide) is an Australian actress, writer and producer. Early life and career Victoria Hill is the daughter of Robert Hill, a former politician, diplomat and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide; and Diana Hill, the Australian president of UNICEF. A graduate of Flinders University Drama Centre, she spent many years performing in theatre productions in Adelaide and interstate before winning her first part in a feature film, 1999's ''Dead End'', soon followed by a role in ''Siam Sunset''. Hill spent subsequent years performing on stage and in occasional television roles until her film career took off in 2006, with roles in '' Modern Love, Hunt Angels, BoyTown, December Boys'' and ''Macbeth'', the Shakespeare adaptation which she also co-wrote and -produced. In 2018, she appeared in the Paul Schrader-directed film ''First Reformed ''First Reformed'' is a 2017 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Paul S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Hicks (director)
Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953) is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of ''Shine (film), Shine'', the biopic of pianist David Helfgott, for which he was nominated for two Academy Awards (Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay). Other films he has directed include the film adaptations of Stephen King's ''Hearts in Atlantis (film), Hearts in Atlantis'' and Nicholas Sparks' ''The Lucky One (film), The Lucky One''. Early life and education Hicks was born on born 4 March 1953 in Uganda. His father was a civil engineer. His family lived in Kenya, outside Nairobi before moving to the UK when Scott was 10 years old, and then moving to Adelaide, South Australia, when Hicks was 14 years old. He had piano lessons until his early teens, and learnt to read music, but "wasn’t really prepared to put the necessary time in". Hicks enrolled for an arts de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noni Hazlehurst
Leonie Elva "Noni" Hazlehurst is an Australian actress, director, writer, presenter, and broadcaster who has appeared on television and radio, in dramas, mini-series, and made for television films, as well also on stage and in feature films since the early 1970s. Hazlehurst has been honoured with numerous awards, including Australian Film Institute Awards, ARIA Awards and Logies, including being inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016. Early life and education Leonie Elva Hazelhurst, known as "Noni", was born in Melbourne. After attending St Leonard's College in Brighton East, Victoria, Hazlehurst studied Drama at Flinders University in South Australia from 1971 to 1973, where she resided at Flinders University Hall and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. Both of her parents were English, and they migrated to Australia in 1951. Career Television Along with roles at the ABC, her first television work was in guest lead roles in television serials pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuala Hafner
Nuala Hafner is an Australian media personality of Ghanaian descent, best known as a newsreader, TV host/presenter, weather presenter and journalist. She is also a psychologist. Early life and education Hafner was born in London, England, to Ghanaian-born Australian Dorinda Hafner. Her parents met in England, where her father, Julian, was a psychiatrist, and migrated to Adelaide in 1977, where Nuala was raised. The couple subsequently split up. She attended Adelaide's Pembroke School, Adelaide, where she was dux of her year before travelling to the UK and Europe. She taught drama in London till 1995. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at Flinders University in 2000 and was admitted to the bar. Television career Hafner began her media career at the age of three months when she appeared in an advertisement for baby formula. She also starred in children's program ''The Book Place'', and on Seven Adelaide's lifestyle program ''Discover''. Hafner joined ''Seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gale Edwards
Annette Gale Edwards (born 14 November 1954) is an Australian theatre director, who has worked extensively throughout Australia and internationally. She has also directed for television and film. Professional career Edwards began her career at Adelaide youth theatre company Energy Connection. From 1986 to 1989 she was associate director of the State Theatre Company of South Australia, has been an Artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Company, she has worked with every other major Australian theatre company, including the Sydney Theatre Company and Opera Australia. Internationally, Edwards directed the 1996 London revival of ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', which opened at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts on Broadway in 2000, and for which she won an Emmy Award for the televised recording of the production. Edwards contributed to the book of the musical '' Whistle Down the Wind'', for which she directed the West End production. She directed Shakespeare's '' The Merc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
