Loene Carmen
| Lo Carmen, aka Loene Carmen | |
|---|---|
| Born | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Genres | Alternative country, Country rock, Folk, Outlaw country, Singer Songwriter, Rock'n'Roll, Torch Singer |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, Actress |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Website | www |
Loene Carmen, also known as Lo Carmen, is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actress. Carmen has independently released five albums, most recently Everyone You Ever Knew (Is Coming Back To Haunt You) in 2015.
Carmen was born in Adelaide, Australia and raised amongst its 1970s music and art community. She is the daughter of rock/jazz/blues pianist Peter Head, founder of The Mount Lofty Rangers, and has a brother Josh Beagley, a guitarist, most notably with funk band Swoop. She began performing while accompanying her father and formed a country band the Honky Tonk Angels. Carmen began focusing on a career as a solo singer-songwriter in 2002.
Carmen was discovered at sixteen working in a Kings Cross pizza bar and cast as the "wild and haunted" Freya Olson in John Duigan's The Year My Voice Broke (1987). Her performance, and that of her co-stars Noah Taylor and Ben Mendelsohn, was described as "deeply memorable, central characters [that] are played by a trio of fine actors in the formative stages of their careers". She was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actress award. Other notable roles followed including Australian prostitute/whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp in the docudrama Blue Murder and Christine in Alkinos Tsilimidos' gritty drama Tom White, for which she also received nominations for Australian Film Institute Best Supporting Actress, Film Critics Circle Best Actor - Female 2004 and IF Awards Best Actress 2004. In 2011, director Kriv Stenders brought Carmen and Noah Taylor together again in Australian film Red Dog, which was described in the Australian as a "warm-hearted and thoroughly entertaining movie".
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