Leeanna Walsman | |
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Walsman in February 2013
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Born |
Sydney, Australia |
22 November 1979
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1996–present |
Leeanna Walsman (born 22 November 1979) is an Australian actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Zam Wesell in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), for playing Carly Bishop in the Australian film Looking for Alibrandi (2000), for her role as Erica Davidson in the Australian Television Series Wentworth and for her starring role in the mini-series Jessica. Walsman also starred in Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye (2015) which aired on subscription channel Presto.
Her theatre credits include:"Speaking in Tongues" for the State theatre of South Australia (2011); "" for The Sydney Theatre Company (2010);"Saturn's Return" For the Sydney Theatre Company (2010); Othello for the Bell Shakespeare Company (2007); The Shape of Things for the Sydney Theatre Company (STC) co-starring Brendan Cowell (Jan 2003); The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union at Belvoir St. Theatre (Feb–Mar 2002); playing the junkie muse to Robyn Nevin's artist in the STC production of Old Masters (Oct–Nov 2001); The Recruit (Jan 2000) also featuring John Howard, Christopher Stollery, Conrad Coleby, Genevieve Lemon, Drew Forsythe, and Brendan Cowell; and her breakthrough performance in La Dispute (May 2000) also starring Rose Byrne, David Field, Rhondda Findleton and Justine Saunders.'Anaconda for the Rock Surfers Theatre Company (2013);
She has been nominated for two AFI awards, a Logie award as well as an IF award.