Annie Byron

Bio

Annie Byron is an AFI Award-winning Australian film, stage, and television actress best known for Wolf Creek 2, Fran, Muriel’s Wedding, and Doing Time for Patsy Cline. Other film roles include Nut Farm (recently filmed in Queensland and soon to be released), Slam, The View of Greenhaven Drive, Silver City, Lawrence of Arabia – The Master Illusionist, Letters, Big Jack Creek, The Third Wave, How Wonderful and the short films Ruby, Glory and Six O’Clock Swill.

Television roles are numerous and include: Drop Dead Weird 1 & 2, Doctor Doctor, Growing Up Gracefully, Home & Away, All Saints, Stingers, Always Greener, Backberner, Stepfather of the Bride, Postcard Bandit, Flying Doctors, Death Duties, The Potato Factory, Clowning Around, Shadows of the Heart, Princess Kate, Displaced Persons, Uncle Dear Uncle, The Sullivans, A Country Practice, Prime Time, The Facts of Life Downunder, Rafferty’s Rules, Flying Doctors, Great Expectations, GP, Five Mile Creek and Mary McKillop.

She has performed with most Australian theatre companies, most recently in Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, as well as Her Brilliant Career at the State Theatre, Everybody @ Kings Cross Theatre, The God of Isaac @ Darlinghurst Theatre, Everybody at KXT, as well as Mosquitoes, Hedda Gabler (Sydney season as well as the tour to NYC), Embers, Bed, Morning Sacrifice, The Cripple of Inishmann, Dreams of a Salesman, Lady of the Camelias and A Cheery Soul, all for Sydney Theatre Company.  Other theatre includes for Eternity Playhouse You Will Not Play Wagner, My Name is Asher Lev, both directed by Moira Blumenthal. For Belvoir Yibiyung, The Small Things, Parramatta Girls, Painted Women, Capricornia, A Lie of the Mind, Miss Julie, The Bear, The Venetian Twins. Griffin Theatre includes Nailed, Pushin’ up Daisies, After Dinner, All the Black Dogs, Bridal Suite, The Grand Finale of Rene Trouvel, Discovering Australia. Force Majeure The Age I’m In (including tours to Dublin, Seoul, and Montreal). Darlinghurst Theatre Co Kindertransport. Queensland Theatre Head Full of Love.  Sport for Jove A Doll’s House, The Crucible. The Erth The Nargun and the Stars. Q Theatre Zero Tolerance, Away, Jigsaw, The Man of Muckinuppin. GFO Calendar Girls. Riverside Theatre RU4Me (the successful one woman show written by and starring Annie).

Awards include the 2016 Best Actress Award at the New Orleans International Indie Short Film Festival (Ruby), 1985 AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role Award (Fran), as well as being nominated for the 1997 AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Doing Time for Patsy Cline).  Annie has been a proud member of Equity for 40 years.