Catherine Terracini (born c. 1982) is an Australian actress and producer born near

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, Italy. She is the daughter of opera singer and artistic director of

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Lyndon Terracini Lyndon William Terracini (born 1950), is an Australian operatic baritone and from 2009 to October 2022 artistic director of Opera Australia. Early life Terracini was born in 1949, the oldest of four children born to Shirley and Vita Terracini, ...

and arts administrator Elizabeth Terracini.} Catherine is a graduate of the

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(NIDA) and has been working in Australian theatre, film and television and commercials since 2004.

Early life

Terracini was born in Italy to Australian parents living in , near the village of

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. They then returned to their home country in 1987, settling in the town of

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. She attended high school at Trinity Catholic College before being accepted to the Acting Degree Program at NIDA in Sydney one year after graduating high school.

Career

Terracini has worked in theatre, film, television and commercials since graduating from NIDA. In 2010 she performed in the play '' Bug'' by

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-Winning American writer

Tracy Letts Tracy S. Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. He started his career at the Steppenwolf Theatre before making his Broadway debut as a playwright for '' August: Osage County'' (2007), for which he received t ...

for Griffin Independent and won the award for Best Actress at

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's Warner Roadshow New Filmmaker's Awards in 2009 for the Short Film ''Let Go''. In 2012 she was awarded a Mike Walsh Fellowship. Terracini is a Dame

Joan Sutherland Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s to the 1980s. She possessed a voice ...

Fund recipient from the American Australian Association which allowed her to study with The Barrow Group in New York City in 2013. In 2019 she was appointed creative producer by the effect and animation house Heckler."Visual effects house Heckler appoints Catherine Terracini as creative producer"
Heckler press release, via

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, 9 April 2019

References

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"''Colder'' review"
Mark Hopkins, 6 May 2008, ''

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"Griffin Stablemates: ''The Cold Child'' (''Das kalte Kind'') by Marius von Mayenburg"
Chris Boyd, 25 July 2006 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Terracini, Catherine Living people 1982 births National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni Actresses from New South Wales Australian film actresses Australian television actresses Australian stage actresses Australian people of Italian descent