Posie Graeme-Evans
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| Born | Rosemary Graeme-Evans Nottingham, England |
| Occupation | Novelist, producer |
| Nationality | British–Australian |
| Notable awards | various, including an AFI award plus multiple Logies for McLeod's Daughters and Hi-5 |
| Spouse | Andrew Blaxland |
| Children | two daughters, one son |
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Posie Graeme-Evans (b. Rosemary Graeme-Evans in Nottingham, England) is an Australian novelist, television and film producer, editor, screenwriter and director, best known for her children's programs and adult dramas. She has created many commercially successful and award winning programs throughout her career, but she is best known as creator of McLeod's Daughters, which during its 2001-2008 run won eight Logies, and Hi-5, which has won three Logies and five ARIA awards. Her other notable credits include Mirror, Mirror, which won an AFI and a GOFTA award. She was also Director of Drama for the Nine Network from 2002-2005 and has written five historical dramas, published by Simon & Schuster.
Graeme-Evans is the daughter of a novelist, Eleanor, and an RAF pilot. As a child, she traveled with her parents, to Egypt during the Suez Crisis and spent three years in 1960s Cyprus during Turkish-Greek Cypriot conflicts. She was educated at many schools including The Fahan School in Hobart, Tasmania, and the Wilderness School in Adelaide, South Australia. Whilst at Wilderness, she topped the State in South Australia in Ancient History in the Leaving Certificate. She married her first husband, Tim Jacobs, in 1971 and had her first daughter, Emma in 1972 while studying at Flinders university for her BA, awarded in 1973.
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