Anni Finsterer is an Australian actress. For her performance in ''

3 Acts of Murder ''3 Acts of Murder'' is a 2009 Australian television film directed by Rowan Woods. It is based on the true-life story of how author Arthur Upfield inadvertently inspired The Murchison Murders. The film starred Robert Menzies as Upfield and Luk ...

'' she won the 2009

Australian Film Institute The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Cinema of Australia, Australian film indu ...

Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in Television Drama.

Early life

Finsterer grew up in Canberra, Australia.

Career

Finsterer is a film, teievision and stage actor, voice over artist, director, playwright. author, singer, keynote speaker, coach and teacher (of acting and drama). Feature films include '' I Met a Girl'', ''The Flood'' (both 2020), ''

True History of the Kelly Gang ''True History of the Kelly Gang'' is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize a ...

'' (2019), '' Sweet Country'' (2017), ''

Teenage Kicks "Teenage Kicks" is the debut single by Northern Irish punk rock band the Undertones. Written in the summer of 1977 by J.J. O'Neill, the band's rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter, the song was recorded on 15 June 1978 and initially rele ...

'' (2016), ''

Sleeping Beauty "Sleeping Beauty" (, or ''The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood''; , or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess curse, cursed by an evil fairy to suspended animation in fi ...

'' (2011), '' The Boys are Back'' and ''

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'' (both 2009). She has had significant roles in '' Bigger Than Tina'' (1999) and '' To Have & to Hold'' (1996). Recent television roles include ''

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'' for Stan, ''

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'', '' Wentworth'' (season 7), the US TV series ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Secret City'' for

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and ''

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'' for the ABC. On 9 September 2024, Finsterer was named as part of the extended cast for Stan Australia series ''Thou Shalt Not Steal.''

Stage

Her lengthy stage career has seen her perform in Australia, Asia and Europe, with

Sydney Theatre Company Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales. The company performs in the Wharf Theatre at Dawes Point in The Rocks area of Sydney as well as the Roslyn Packer Theatre (formerly Sydney Theatre ...

Melbourne Theatre Company The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre com ...

Queensland Theatre Company Queensland Theatre, formerly the Queensland Theatre Company and Royal Queensland Theatre Company, is a professional theatre company based in Brisbane, Australia. It regularly performs in its own Bille Brown Theatre and the Queensland Performin ...

Bell Shakespeare Bell Shakespeare is an Australian theatre company specialising in the works of William Shakespeare, his contemporaries and other classics. Founded by actor John Bell and based in Sydney, it is Australia's only national theatre company. Apart f ...

Griffin Theatre Company Griffin Theatre Company is an Australian theatre specialising in new works, based in Sydney. Founded in 1979, it is the resident theatre company at the Stables Theatre in Kings Cross. the artistic director is Declan Greene. Artistic directors ...

, Belvoir Theatre Company,

La Mama La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (sometimes abbreviated as La MaMa E.T.C.) is an Off-Off-Broadway theater founded in 1961 by African-American theatre director, producer, and fashion designer Ellen Stewart. Located in the East Village neighborho ...

and more. Highlights include playing the title character in ''Sharon Lilly Screwdriver'' ( Stables Theatre, 1991), and producing and acting in ''

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'' (Bay Street Theatre, 1988). Other significant roles include playing

Macbeth ''The Tragedy of Macbeth'', often shortened to ''Macbeth'' (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambiti ...

Lady Macbeth Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Macbeth'' (). As the wife of the play's tragic hero, Macbeth (a Scottish nobleman), Lady Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide, after which she becomes quee ...

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, Ishtar, and the Queen of Hearts on stilts. Finsterer is also an author - her most recent publication being ''Radical Rock and Roll Resilience'' (2020) - a personal story of overcoming adversity, combined with strategies of how to live an empowered life. She holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts, and a Diploma of Education in Drama and English.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

As actor

As crew

Books

Awards and nominations

Personal life

In the 1980s Finsterer was involved in two car accidents, having to undergo many operations including skin grafts, facial reconstruction, a hand replacement and an ear reconstruction from her rib cartilage.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Finsterer, Anni Living people AACTA Award winners Australian stage actresses Australian film actresses Australian television actresses 21st-century Australian actresses Year of birth missing (living people)