Justine Clarke
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Justine Clarke at the Aria Awards 2013 in Sydney, Australia
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21 November 1971 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Actress, singer, television host |
| Years active | 1978 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Jack Finsterer |
| Children | Josef, Nina and Max |
| Awards | Ástor – Best Actress 2006 |
Justine Clarke (born 21 November 1971) is an Australian actress, singer and television host. She has been acting since the age of seven and has appeared in some of Australia's best-known TV shows. She is also a film and stage actor, and won the Best Actress Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in Argentina in 2006 for her role in independent film Look Both Ways.
Justine was born in Sydney, and at the age of seven, whilst attending Woollahra Public School with other up and coming talents like Mouche Phillips and Deni Hines, Clarke began appearing in television commercials, one of which was Arnott's Humphrey B. Bear biscuits. At eleven she played the role of Brigitta in the stage musical, The Sound of Music.
Clarke's first significant acting role was as the character Anna Goanna in the 1985 film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The same year she appeared in the TV series The Maestro's Company and featured in the 1986 mini-series Professor Poopsnaggle's Steam Zeppelin. The following year she made appearances in A Country Practice and Willing and Abel
In 1988, Clarke began an eighteen months role on the soap opera, Home and Away, as one of 17 original cast members, playing the character of Ruth "Roo" Stewart. The character of Roo was reinstated in the cast list, in 2010, but was now portrayed by Georgie Parker, hence along with Ray Meagher's character of Alf Stewart, she is only one of two original characters. She was one of several Home and Away cast-members to star in a stage musical about the soap, which toured the UK in 1991.
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