Tracy Mann is an Australian actress and voice artist. After appearing in a number of television series, she won an Australian Film Institute award in 1980 for the film '' Hard Knocks'' . She has also won awards for her work in the mini-series ''

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'' and 2005 comedy film '' Hating Alison Ashley''.

Early life and education

Born in

Adelaide, South Australia Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to ei ...

, Tracy Mann first expressed interest in becoming an actress at the age of four. She undertook drama classes as a child, then as a teenager with the Saturday Company, a branch of the State Theatre Company of South Australia (STCSA). Fresh from high school in 1973, she performed in ''

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'' for Adelaide Festival Theatre and joined Actors Equity of Australia. She subsequently studied in London under Phillipe Gaulier in the 1990s.

Career

Television

Mann got her first big break playing Tina Harris in 1970s soap opera '' The Box''. Mann is possibly best remembered to audiences for playing deaf biker's moll Georgie Baxter in ''

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''. She also played the lead role of guitarist / singer Carol Howard in the 1984 ABC-TV series ''

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'', and the lead role in police drama ''

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'' (1990). Other TV appearances include '' The Sullivans'', '' The Young Doctors'', '' Arcade'', '' Holiday Island'', ''

'', ''

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'', '' Cowra Breakout'', '' GP'', ''

'', ''

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'', '' The Flying Doctors'', ''Sweet and Sour'', '' Boys from the Bush'', ''

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'', '' All Saints'', '' The Oracle'', ''

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'', '' Bellbird''. She made one-off guest appearances in shows such as ''

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'', '' Bluey'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Kingswood Country'' '' Skyways'', '' Good Guys Bad Guys'', '' Water Rats'', and ''

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''. Mann undertook

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work as Holophone in an episode of children's science fiction series '' Silversun'', and Susie Sponge on the second season of popular animated series '' The Toothbrush Family''. Her other voice acting roles include animated series '' Classic Tales'', ''

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'' and '' Tracey McBean'' (both produced by

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). In 2024, Mann was announced for the '' Top End Wedding'' sequel series ''Top End Bub'', where she reprised her role from the film for the television series. On 8 December 2024, Mann was named in the cast for Foxtel legal drama ''The Twelve.''

Film

Mann's first starring role on the big screen was low budget drama '' Hard Knocks''; she won an AFI award for Best Actress in a Leading Role as a young ex-prisoner being hassled by the police. She played sister to the main character in New Zealand film '' The Scarecrow'' (aka '' Klynham Summer''), which was invited to play at the

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. Mann has also appeared in the Yahoo Serious movie '' Reckless Kelly'', '' Hating Alison Ashley'', and '' Any Questions for Ben?''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Theatre

Awards & nominations

Personal life

Tracy Mann has been married to director Scott Hartford-Davis, since March 6, 2022. She is stepmother to Sebastian, Barnaby, Allegra and India. A breast cancer survivor, Mann underwent a double mastectomy. She is a student of yoga. She claims credit for naming the

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. Mann has related her conversion to

Buddhism Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...

: :"I was sort of unconsciously on a bit of a path... I was doing a show called 'Janus'... I just reached a point that my spirit, my consciousness, had said, "Tracy, enough, Now you have to get it... And I had five weeks off of filming 'Janus' and went to

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... to go to a monastery to study Buddhism.""''Dimensions'' "Studio Guests – Eliza Stankovic & Tracy Mann"

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, episode 15, 3 October 2002. Transcript, Retrieved on 7 September 2007

References

External links

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