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Tuuli Narkle
Tuuli Narkle is an Australian actress. For her performance in ''Mystery Road: Origin'' she won the 2022 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama. She plays Australian Federal Police, AFP liaison officer Constable Evie Cooper in the Network 10/Paramount+ series ''NCIS: Sydney''. Early life and education Tuuli Narkle was born in Western Australia. She is of Aboriginal Australian and Finns, Finnish descent. She is a Noongar woman of the Yued and Wiilman cultural blocs, with familial ties to the York, Western Australia, York and Goldfields-Esperance , Goldfields regions. She learnt cultural dance at a young age. While at high school, she was obsessed with the relationship between ''NCIS (TV series), NCIS'' characters Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Gibbs and Anthony DiNozzo, DiNozzo. She was accepted into the John Curtin College of the Arts to study acting, and at the same time continued to train as a dancer at the Charlesworth Ballet Institute. After taking a major acting rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a land area of , and is also the List of country subdivisions by area, second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth. Western Australia has a diverse range of climates, including tropical conditions in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley, deserts in the interior (including the Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, and Great Victoria Desert) and a Mediterranean climate on the south-west and southern coastal areas. the state has 2.965 million inhabitants—10.9 percent of the national total. Over 90 percent of the state's population live in the South-West Land Division, south-west corner and around 80 percent live in the state capital Perth, leaving the remainder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Leroy Jethro Gibbs (born November 21, 1954) is a fictional character and the original protagonist of the CBS TV series '' NCIS'', portrayed by Mark Harmon in the original series and by Austin Stowell in the prequel series '' NCIS: Origins''. He is a former U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper turned special agent who commands a team for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Gibbs is the most accomplished marksman on the team and the most skilled at handling violent standoffs; he depends on his other agents heavily for technical forensics and background checks. He is patient but firm with his team and has little patience for bureaucracy; he commands most other main characters—including his current staff Timothy McGee, Nick Torres and, briefly, Jessica Knight and previous staff Caitlin Todd (killed in the line of duty), Anthony DiNozzo (left to look after his newly found daughter), Ziva David (presumed as killed after leaving NCIS; later revealed to have gone into hiding), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
''The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'' is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication in England until 1854. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to a friend about the events connected with his meeting a mysterious young widow, calling herself Helen Graham, who arrives with her young son and a servant to Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years. Contrary to the early 19th-century norms, she pursues an artist's career and makes an income by selling her pictures. Her strict seclusion soon gives rise to gossip in the neighbouring village and she becomes a social outcast. Gilbert comes to understand that she has fled with her son, whom she desperately wishes to save from his fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Evonne Fay Goolagong Cawley (née Goolagong; born 31 July 1951) is an Australian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. Goolagong won 86 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including seven singles Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, majors, and 46 doubles titles, including seven doubles majors. At the age of 19, Goolagong won the French Open singles and the Australian Open doubles championships (the latter with Margaret Court). She won the women's singles tournament at Wimbledon Championships, Wimbledon in 1971 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 1971. In 1980 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 1980 she won Wimbledon again, this time as a mother and becoming the first mother to win the title in 66 years. She represented Australia in three Fed Cup competiti ... [...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] |
Belvoir Street Theatre
Belvoir is an Australian theatre company based at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia, originally known as Company B. Its artistic director is Eamon Flack. The theatre comprises two performing spaces: the Upstairs Theatre and the smaller Downstairs Theatre. History Theatre The theatre, converted from a former tomato sauce factory, opened in 1974 as the Nimrod Theatre for the Nimrod Theatre Company. The first production at the theatre was rock musical '' The Bacchoi''. It was renamed as "'Belvoir St" in 1984 by Sue Hill and Chris Westwood when the building was purchased by a syndicate of people (Belvoir Street Theatre Pty Ltd). Renovations costing around commenced in 2005 and were delayed in 2006 with the discovery of asbestos in the building's roof. The theatre reopened in October 2006 with the Sydney season of ''It Just Stopped'' by Stephen Sewell. The theatre contains a 330-seat auditorium called the Upstairs Theatre, and an 80-seat performing space called the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Harrison (playwright)
Jane Harrison is an Aboriginal Australian playwright, novelist, literary festival director, and researcher. She is known for her 1998 play '' Stolen'', which received critical claim and has toured nationally and internationally, and ''The Visitors'', first produced in 2020. ''The Visitors'' has been developed as an opera and as a novel. Early life and education Jane Harrison is a descendant of the Muruwari people of New South Wales, from the area around Bourke and Brewarrina. She grew up in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria with her mother and sister, and began her career as an advertising copywriter. Plays ''Stolen'' ''Stolen'' premièred in 1998 at Playbox (now Malthouse Theatre) in Melbourne, directed by Wesley Enoch. It was followed by seven annual seasons in Melbourne, plus tours to Sydney, Adelaide, regional Victoria, Tasmania, the United Kingdom (twice), Hong Kong and Tokyo, with readings in Canada, New York City, and Los Angeles. In Sydney, it was performed at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolen (play)
''Stolen'' is a play by Australian playwright Jane Harrison. It is based upon the lives of five indigenous people who dealt with the issues of forceful removal by the Australian government. It was published in 1998. Plot ''Stolen'' tells the story of five Aboriginal children, who go by the names of Sandy, Ruby, Jimmy, Anne, and Shirley. Sandy has spent his entire life on the run, never having a set home to live in. ''Stolen'' tracks his quest for a place to be, a place where he doesn’t have to keep hiding from the government (even though they are no longer after him), and a place he can call home. Ruby was forced to work as a domestic from a young age and was driven insane by the abuse of her white masters. In the latter part of the play, she spends a lot of her time mumbling to herself, whilst her family desperately try to help her. Jimmy was separated from his mother at a very young age, and she spent her entire life looking for him. He spent a lot of time in prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Institute Of Dramatic Art
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is an Australian educational institution for the performing arts based in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1958, it offers bachelor's, master's and vocational degrees in subjects including acting, writing, directing, scenic construction, technical theatre, voice, costume, props, production design and cultural leadership. In 2024, NIDA was named as #13 in the "World's 25 Best Drama Schools" by ''The Hollywood Reporter''. NIDA's main campus is based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington, New South Wales, Kensington, located adjacent to the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and is made up of a range of rehearsal and performance venues. Its performance venues include the Parade Theatre (also the name of an earlier venue in NIDA's history); the Space; the Studio Theatre; and the Playhouse, while the Rodney Seaborn Library forms part of its library and the Reg Grundy Studio is a training and production facility for film and television. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leah Purcell
Leah Maree Purcell (born 14 August 1970) is an Aboriginal Australian stage and film actress, playwright, film director, and novelist. She made her film debut in 1999, appearing in Paul Fenech's ''Somewhere in the Darkness'', which led to roles in films, such as ''Lantana'' (2001), ''Somersault'' (2004), '' The Proposition'' (2005) and '' Jindabyne'' (2006). In 2014, Purcell wrote and starred in the play, '' The Drover's Wife'', based on the original story by Henry Lawson. In 2019, she went on to write the bestselling novel, ''The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson'', which was adapted for the screen when Purcell made her directorial debut in the acclaimed film of the same name in 2022, for which she had also written, produced and starred as the titular character. For her work, she has won several awards, including a Helpmann Award, two AACTA Awards, and Asia Pacific Screen Awards Jury Grand Prize. Purcell is notable for her roles in several television drama serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolen (play)
''Stolen'' is a play by Australian playwright Jane Harrison. It is based upon the lives of five indigenous people who dealt with the issues of forceful removal by the Australian government. It was published in 1998. Plot ''Stolen'' tells the story of five Aboriginal children, who go by the names of Sandy, Ruby, Jimmy, Anne, and Shirley. Sandy has spent his entire life on the run, never having a set home to live in. ''Stolen'' tracks his quest for a place to be, a place where he doesn’t have to keep hiding from the government (even though they are no longer after him), and a place he can call home. Ruby was forced to work as a domestic from a young age and was driven insane by the abuse of her white masters. In the latter part of the play, she spends a lot of her time mumbling to herself, whilst her family desperately try to help her. Jimmy was separated from his mother at a very young age, and she spent her entire life looking for him. He spent a lot of time in prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
