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Rachael Blake

Born	Rachael Morelle Blake (1971-05-26) 26 May 1971 (age 53) Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Other names	Rachel Blake
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995–present
Spouse	Tony Martin (2003–present)
Awards	Fantasporto Award for Best Actress 2004 Perfect Strangers IF Award for Best Actress 2001 Lantana Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress in a Series 1999 Wildside

Rachael Morelle Blake (born 26 May 1971) is an Australian actress.

Early life

Blake was born in Perth, Western Australia.^[1] At the age of 18 months, she moved to England with her English parents, only to return to Perth at age 11.^[2] Blake was born deaf in one ear, a condition that was rectified by a series of operations undertaken before she was six. To overcome shyness^[2] and her hearing problem,^[3] her mother enrolled her in elocution lessons, which she continued until age 17.^[2] After attending the John Curtin College of the Arts high school in Perth, she applied to Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) but was rejected due to her age of 17. She was accepted to NIDA when she was 19.^[2]

Acting career

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At 13, Blake was cast in a short film. After studying at NIDA, she worked on Australian television shows Home and Away as Mandy Thomas (1995–1997), Pacific Drive, and Heartbreak High (1996). Blake's first feature film role was as Amy in the Australian children's movie Paws (1997). In 1997, she took the role of Dr Maxine Summers in the ABC crime drama Wildside.

She has also starred in several films, including 2001's Lantana with Anthony LaPaglia, as well as 2003's Perfect Strangers for which she won the Fantasporto Award for Best Actress. Between 2006–2007, she played Hilary Davenport in the British satirical black comedy Suburban Shootout. She played "Belinda" in a British TV movie, Clapham Junction, in 2007. In 2009, she starred in the UKTV mini-series False Witness. She also played a main role in The Prisoner. In 2010, she portrayed Hazel Hawke in the telemovie Hawke.

Blake played the character of Clara in the erotic drama Sleeping Beauty.^[4]

In 2012, Blake portrayed Kris Perry in the theatre production of 8 in Sydney and Melbourne. In 2013, she portrayed Lady Tuckworth in the HBO Asia series Serangoon Road. She played a main role in the 2014 drama film Melody, for which she has received recognition (see below). She appeared in the 2016 film Gods of Egypt.

Awards and honours

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Blake won the Silver Logie Award for 'Most Outstanding Actress' at the Logie Awards (1999).^[5] She was nominated four times at the Australian film Institute (since 2011 called the AACTA Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards) and won the award for 'Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama' for Wildside in 1998^[6] and 'Best Actress for a Supporting role' for Lantana in 2001.^[7] She received the Montréal World Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her portrayal, in the title role, in the 2014 drama film Melody (2014).^[8] In 2004, she won the Best Actress (Melhor Actriz) - Directors' Week Award at Fantasporto film festival (2004) and the Best Actress Award at Pacific Meridian film festival, Vladivostok for Perfect Strangers (2003).^[9] In 2018, she was part of the ensemble cast that won the 'Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Series in a Drama Series' by Equity Ensemble Awards 2018 for Cleverman (2016)^[10]

Personal life

In 2003, she married Wildside co-star Tony Martin.^[11] They later starred together in Serangoon Road.^[12]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Paws	Amy	Feature film
2000	Blindman's Bluff	Sophie	Film Short
2001	Lantana	Jane O'May	Feature film
2001	The Letter	Herself - Narrator (voice)	Film Short
2002	Whispering in the Dark	Woman	Film Short
2003	Perfect Strangers	Melanie	Feature film, NZ
2004	Tom White	Helen White	Feature film
2005	Derailed	Susan Davis	Feature film, US/UK
2008	Summer	Katy	Feature film, UK/GERMANY
2009	Pinprick	Miriam	Feature film, Switzerland/Hungary
2010	Cherry Tree Lane	Christine	Feature film, UK
2011	Sleeping Beauty	Clara	Feature film
2014	My Mistress	Kate Boyd	Feature film
2014	Melody	Emily	Feature film, Belgium/Luxenbourg/FRANCE
2015	Truth	Betsy West	Feature film, US/AUSTRALIA
2016	Gods of Egypt	Isis	Feature film, AUSTRALIA/US/China/Hong Kong
2017	Breath	Mrs. Pike	Feature film
2018	The Second	The Writer	Feature film
2018	Slam	Joanne Hendricks	Feature film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995–1997	Home and Away	Recurring role: Mandy Thomas	TV series, 28 episodes
1996	Fire	Recurring guest role: Beatrice	TV series, 1 episode "Vendetta I"
1996	Heartbreak High	Guest role: Lara	TV series, 1 episode: "4.20"
1996; 2000; 2003	Good Morning Australia	Guest	TV series, 1 episode
1997	Water Rats	Guest role: Carly Bridges	TV series, season 2, episode 15: "Stolen Time"
1997–1999	Wildside	Regular lead role: Maxine Summers	TV series, 60 episodes
1998	Good News Week	Guest	TV series, 1 episode
1999	The 1999 Annual TV Week Logie Awards	Herself	TV special
2000	Good Morning Australia	Guest (with Tony Martin)	TV series, 1 episode
2000	Nowhere to Land	Anne Prescott	TV film
2000	The Three Stooges	Recurring role: Helen Howard	TV film
2003	Grass Roots	Recurring role: Faith Twohill	TV series, 3 episodes: "Art", "Prostitution", "Investigation"
2003	The Movie Show	Guest	TV series, 1 episode
2003	Good Morning Australia	Guest (with Sam Neill)	TV series, 1 episode
2003	Mornings	Guest (with Sam Neill)	TV series, 1 episode
2003	Dying to Leave	Narrator (voice)	TV film documentary
2003	The 2003 Australian Film Institute Awards	Presenter	TV special
2004	Auf Wiedersehen, Pet	Recurring guest role: Naomi Hedges	TV series, 2 episodes: "Au Revoir: Parts 1 & 2"
2006	Bon Voyage	Recurring role: Elizabeth Aldred	TV miniseries, 2 episodes
2006	The Philosopher's Zone	Reader	TV series, 4 episodes
2006	Riot or Revolution: Eureka Stockade 1854	Narrator	TV filmdocumentary
2006–2007	Suburban Shootout	Regular role: Hilary Davenport	TV series, 11 episodes
2007	Clapham Junction	Belinda Hopkirk	TV film
2008	Lewis	Guest role: Ann Kriel	TV series, 1 episode: "Music to Die For"
2009	False Witness	Lead role: Det. Chief Insp. Julie Hales	TV miniseries
2009	The Prisoner	Regular role: M2	TV miniseries, 6 episodes
2010	A Six Hour Film Shot in 92 Days: The Diary of 'The Prisoner'	Herself	Short film documentary
2010	Beautiful Prison: The World of 'The Prisoner'	Herself	Short film documentary
2010	Hawke	Hazel Hawke	TV film
2010	Immortal	Narrator	Film documentary
2011	Cannes Film Festival	Interviewee	TV special
2012	The Straits	Regular role: Natasha	TV miniseries, 7 episodes
2013	Jabbed: Love, Fear And Vaccines	Narrator	TV film documentary
2013	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Guest role: Ailsa Wilton	TV series, 1 episode: "Blood at the Wheel"
2013	Serangoon Road	Regular role: Lady Tuckworth	TV miniseries, 9 episodes
2016	Rake	Recurring role: Ruth Rogers	TV series, 3 episodes: "4.1", "4.2", "4.3"
2017	Cleverman	Regular role: Marion Frith	TV series, season 2, 6 episodes
2018	Today	Guest (with Susie Porter)	TV series, 1 episode
2018	Today Extra	Guest (with Susie Porter)	TV series, 1 episode
2021	Eden	Recurring role: Katia Van Der Linden	TV series, 5 episodes
2022	Significant Others	Regular lead role: Ursula	TV miniseries, 6 episodes

References

^ "Rachael Blake - Biography". IMDb. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Partly deaf, tearful and shy". Sunday Mail. Advertiser Newspapers Limited. 12 October 2003. p. 105.
^ Curtis, Maree (12 October 2003). "Unknown Rachael comes of age". Sunday Mail. Advertiser Newspapers Limited. p. 105.
^ Stratton, David (25 June 2011). "Sleeping Beauty's naked provocation is no fairytale" (film review). The Australian. Retrieved 10 June 2016. When Lucy apparently decides she needs to augment her income, she answers an ad and finds herself in a large, isolated house being interviewed by elegant Clara (Rachael Blake). Clara, it seems, runs an establishment that, though not exactly a brothel in the accepted sense, does bring together attractive young women and older men.
^ "Logie Awards (1999)". IMDb.
^ "Wildside - Awards". IMDb.
^ "Lantana - Awards". IMDb.
^ "Awards of the world film festival - Montréal 2014". Montreal World Film Festival.
^ "Perfect Strangers - Awards". IMDb.
^ "Cleverman - Awards". IMDb.
^ "Rachael Blake". Screenwise. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
^ "Serangoon Road: cast". Australian Television Information Archive. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

External links

Rachael Blake at IMDb

AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama

Candy Raymond / Deidre Rubenstein (1986)
Michele Fawdon / Nicole Kidman (1987)
Kerry McGuire / Anne Phelan (1988)
Julia Blake / Pat Thomson (1989)
Rebecca Gibney (1990)
Sonia Todd (1991)
Lisa Hensley (1992)
Denise Roberts (1993)
Monica Maughan (1994)
Jacqueline McKenzie (1995)
Claudia Karvan (1996)
Anne Looby (1997)
Rachael Blake (1998)
Jill Forster (1999)
Noni Hazlehurst / Anne Phelan (2000)
Kerry Armstrong / Angie Milliken (2001)
Juliet Stevenson (2002)
Angie Milliken (2003)
Bojana Novakovic (2004)
Claudia Karvan (2005)
Susie Porter (2006)
Claudia Karvan (2007)
Kat Stewart (2008)
Susie Porter (2009)
Catherine McClements (2010)
Sarah Snook (2011)
Leah Purcell (2012)
Claudia Karvan (2013)
Marta Dusseldorp (2014)
Pamela Rabe (2015)
Elizabeth Debicki (2016)
Elisabeth Moss (2017)
Kate Box (2018)
Deborah Mailman (2019)
Yvonne Strahovski (2020)
Anna Torv (2021)
Tuuli Narkle (2022)
Anna Torv (2024)

AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

1976–2000

Melissa Jaffer/Jacki Weaver (1976)
Veronica Lang (1977)
Angela Punch McGregor (1978)
Pat Evison (1979)
Jill Perryman (1980)
Judy Davis (1981)
Kris McQuade (1982)
Linda Hunt (1983)
Anna Maria Monticelli (1984)
Annie Byron (1985)
Lindy Davies (1986)
Jan Adele (1987)
Tina Bursill (1988)
Victoria Longley (1989)
Julia Blake (1990)
Fiona Press (1991)
Pat Thomson (1992)
Judy Davis (1993)
Rachel Griffiths (1994)
Amanda Douge (1995)
Toni Collette (1996)
Cate Blanchett (1997)
Toni Collette (1998)
Sacha Horler (1999)
Greta Scacchi (2000)

2001–present

Rachael Blake (2001)
Judi Farr (2002)
Sacha Horler (2003)
Lynette Curran (2004)
Noni Hazlehurst (2005)
Susie Porter (2006)
Emma Booth (2007)
Toni Collette (2008)
Rachel Griffiths (2009)
Deborah Mailman (2010)
Louise Harris (2011)
Jessica Mauboy (2012)
Elizabeth Debicki (2013)
Susan Prior (2014)
Judy Davis (2015)
Miranda Otto (2016)
Nicole Kidman (2017)
Nicole Kidman (2018)
Magnolia Maymuru (2019)
Essie Davis (2020)
Essie Davis (2021)
Olivia DeJonge (2022)
Deborah Mailman (2023)

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