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Preppers (TV Series)
''Preppers'' is a 2021 Australian television comedy series that aired on ABC Television. Plot ''Preppers'' follows Charlie, a young Aboriginal woman who encounters a community of preppers at a place they call "Eden 2". Cast Production The six-part series is created and written by Nakkiah Lui and Gabriel Dowrick and directed by Steven McGregor. Episodes Series 1 (2021) Awards ''Preppers'' was nominated for Best Narrative Comedy Series and Best Comedy Performer (Nakkiah Lui) at the 2021 AACTA Awards The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards recognise excellence in the cinema of Australia, film and .... References External links * {{ABC Television programming Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming 2020s Australian comedy television series 2021 Australian television series debuts Australian English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakkiah Lui
Nakkiah Lui is an Australian actor, writer and comedian. She is a young leader in the Aboriginal Australian community. Career Lui is co-writer and star of ''Black Comedy'', a sketch comedy television program on the ABC. From 2012 to 2014 she was playwright-in-residence for Sydney's Belvoir Theatre and in 2013 she was the artist-in-residence for the Griffin Theatre. Her work includes: ''This Heaven'' (2013), ''I Should Have Told You Before We Made Love (That I’m Black)'' (2012), ''Blackie Blackie Brown: The Traditional Owner of Death'' (2013), ''Kill the Messenger'' (2015) and ''Power Plays'' (2016). Lui is a columnist for '' Australian Women's Weekly'' and has also hosted Radio National's ''Awaye'' and ''NAIDOC Evenings'' for ABC Local Radio. She has appeared on '' Q+A'', '' The Drum'' and ''Screen Time'' on ABC. In 2017, Lui was on the program to appear in four events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The same year, Lui wrote and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Tapsell
Miranda Tapsell (born 11 December 1987) is a Larrakia Aboriginal Australian actress of both stage and screen, best known for her role as Cynthia in the Wayne Blair film '' The Sapphires'' and her 2015 performance as Martha Tennant in the Nine Network drama series '' Love Child''. In 2016, she portrayed Fatima in the Stan series '' Wolf Creek''. Early life Tapsell was born in Darwin, Northern Territory, on 11 December 1987 to Tony and Barbara Tapsell. When she was five the family moved to Jabiru in West Arnhem Land, where she grew up around Kakadu National Park. In 2004, when she was 16, Tapsell won the Bell Shakespeare Company regional performance scholarship. After finishing school she moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) from where she graduated in 2008. Career Miranda's first stage appearance was at the Jabiru Wind Festival in September, 1999. She sang as a student with the Jabiru Area School Choir. Tapsell has been active both on stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural number, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s Australian Comedy Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse) Australian (1858 – 15 October 1879) was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was exported to the United States where he had modest success as a racehorse but became a very successful and influential breeding stallion. Back ..., a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AACTA Awards
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, known as the AACTA Awards, are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). The awards recognise excellence in the cinema of Australia, film and television in Australia, television industry, both locally and internationally, including the producers, directors, actors, writers, and cinematographers. It is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Cinema of Australia, Australian film and Television in Australia, television industry. They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards for the United States and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA Awards for the United Kingdom. The awards, previously called Australian Film Institute Awards or AFI Awards, began in 1958, and involved 30 nominations across six categories. They expanded in 1986 to cover television as well as film. The AACTA Awards were instituted in 2011. The AACTA Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeanna Walsman
Leeanna Walsman is an Australian actress. She is best known for her role as Zam Wesell in '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' (2002), and for her roles in the 2000 film '' Looking for Alibrandi'' and the television series '' Wentworth''. She was nominated for both AACTA and Logie awards for her role in Emmy Award-winning series'' Safe Harbour''. Early life Walsman was born in Sydney, Australia. Career Walsman commenced her acting career 1996, when she made a guest appearance in drama series ''Police Rescue'', followed by further guest roles on shows, such as, '' Big Sky'' and ''Murder Call''. During which time, Walsman made her feature film debut in Steven Vidler's 1997 drama ''Blackrock''. She continued to appear in guest spots on several drama series, including '' Wildside'', ''Home and Away'', ''Heartbreak High'', as well as fantasy shows, ''Farscape'' and '' Beastmaster''. Walsman was cast in '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' (2002), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Miller-Heidke
Kate Melina Miller-Heidke ( ; born 16 November 1981) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Although classically trained, she has generally followed a career in alternative pop music. She signed to Sony Australia, Epic in the US and RCA in the UK, but since 2014 has been an independent artist. Four of her solo studio albums have peaked in the top 10 of the ARIA Albums Chart, '' Curiouser'' (October 2008), '' Nightflight'' (April 2012), '' O Vertigo!'' (March 2014) and '' Child in Reverse'' (October 2020). Her most popular single, " The Last Day on Earth" (July 2009), reached No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart after being used in promos for TV soap, ''Neighbours'', earlier in that year. At the ARIA Music Awards Miller-Heidke has been nominated 17 times. She represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel, with her song, "Zero Gravity" (January 2019). Miller-Heidke is the only person to have sung at Coachella, the New York Metropolitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Maynard
Annie Maynard (born 30 October 1981) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her starring role in the ABC comedy series '' Upper Middle Bogan'' as Bess Denyar. ''Upper Middle Bogan'' began screening on ABC on 15 August 2013 with Maynard reprising her role across all three seasons. Maynard subsequently filmed the Australian drama television series '' Playing for Keeps''. Early life Born in Adelaide, Maynard did two years at Flinders University Drama Centre. In 2002 Maynard was accepted to the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and graduated in 2004. Career Maynard has amassed a number of credits across various Australian television series including '' Love Child, A Moody Christmas, Rake 3, Puberty Blues, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Spirited 2, Tricky Business'', '' Dead Lucky'', '' Upper Middle Bogan'' and '' All Saints.'' In 2024, Maynard appeared in the comedy series ''Colin from Accounts ''Colin from Accounts'' is an Australian romantic d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shareena Clanton
Shareena Clanton is an Australian film, television and theatre actress. She is known for her role as Doreen Anderson in the television drama series '' Wentworth'' (2013–2017). Early life and education Clanton was born in Perth, Western Australia. She is of Wangkatha, Yamatji, Noongar, and Gidja descent through her mother and Cherokee, Blackfoot and African-American descent through her father. She first studied an Aboriginal Theatre course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), before being accepted into the full-time acting course at WAAPA, from which she graduated in 2010. Career In 2009, before graduating from WAAPA, Clanton had her feature film debut playing Leah in the comedy '' Stone Bros.'', before being a main cast member in the TV series '' Ben Elton Live from Planet Earth'' in 2011. In theatre, she starred in a main stage performance for the first time in the production of Alan Ayckbourn's '' My Wonderful Day'' at the Ensemble Theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Briggs
Tony Briggs (born 3 July 1967) is an Aboriginal Australian actor. He is best known for creating the stage play '' The Sapphires'' (later a 2012 film), which tells the true story of an Aboriginal singing girl group who toured Vietnam during the war. Briggs is also a former track and field athlete. Early life Tony Briggs was born on 3 July 1967. He is the son of Laurel Robinson, one of The Sapphires, and is a Yorta Yorta / Wurundjeri man. He attended Scotch College, Melbourne as a boarding student from 1980 to 1985, and proved to be an outstanding athlete there. He was in the athletics team each year, and in 1985 was made Captain of Athletics. he held the school record for the 400m, the 110m hurdles (under-15, under-17 and open), and the under-16 100m hurdles. Believed to be the first Indigenous Australian student at the school, Briggs was a School House Prefect in his final year. Career Television Between 1987 and 1988, Briggs had the recurring role of banker Pete Baxter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Arnold
Luke Arnold (born 1984) is an Australian actor and author, who is known for portraying Long John Silver, John Silver in the Starz (TV channel), Starz drama series ''Black Sails (TV series), Black Sails'' (2014–2017) and INXS singer Michael Hutchence in the miniseries ''INXS: Never Tear Us Apart'' (2014). Early life and education Luke Arnold was born in 1984 in Adelaide, South Australia, and went to primary school there until his family moved to Sydney. He moved to Queensland for his last two years of high school at Sunshine Beach, Queensland, Sunshine Beach High School on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast. At the age of 18, he worked as an assistant swordmaster on the 2003 film ''Peter Pan (2003 film), Peter Pan''.Brown, EmmaDiscovery: Luke Arnold ''Interview'', January 2014. He graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2006. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
