Leah Purcell

Leah Purcell Biography

Leah Purcell (born 14 August 1970, Murgon, Queensland) is an Australian actor, director and writer.

Biography

She is a film, television and theatre actress, singer, director and playwright. She is the youngest of seven children of Aboriginal and white Australian descent. Her father was a butcher and a boxing trainer. After a difficult adolescence, looking after her sick mother who died while Leah was in her late teens, problems with alcohol and teenage motherhood, Purcell left Murgon and moved to Brisbane and became involved with community theatre.

In 1996 she moved to Sydney to become presenter on a music video cable television station, RED Music Channel. This was followed by roles in the ABC television series Police Rescue and Fallen Angels. She co-wrote and acted in a play called Box the Pony, which played at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, the 1999 Edinburgh Festival and in 2000 at the Barbican Theatre in London. She then wrote and directed the documentary Black Chicks Talking, which won a 2002 Inside Film award. She appeared in the acclaimed Australian film Lantana starring Anthony LaPaglia and Geoffrey Rush and in the theatre in The Vagina Monologues. She went on to feature in 2004 films Somersault, The Proposition (starring Guy Pearce and Emily Watson and written by Nick Cave) and Jindabyne (starring Gabriel Byrne) as well as playing the role of Condoleezza Rice in David Hare's play, Stuff Happens in Sydney and Melbourne.

Filmography

Actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	G.P.	Lauren	Episode: "Long Time Coming"
1996	Police Rescue	Const. Tracey Davis	9
1997	Fallen Angels	Sharon Walker	20
1998	Water Rats	Sarah Lane	Episode: "Let the Dead"
1999	Somewhere in the Darkness	Lulu
2000-2001	BeastMaster	The Black Apparition	Recurring role (5 episodes)
2001	'	Witch Doctor	Episode: "The Visitor"
2001	Lantana	Det. Claudia Wiss
2002	Bad Cop, Bad Cop	Lorraine Simpson	Episode: "Suit Yourself"
2004	Somersault	Diane
2005	'	Queenie
2006	Jindabyne	Carmel
2007	Love My Way	Caroline Syron	Episodes: "I'm the King of the Castle", "Together Apart", "Say What You Mean"
2007	'	Hannah Sprints	TV miniseries
2008	McLeod's Daughters	Terri Barker	Episode: "Dammed"
2009	Tomorrow	Laura	Short film
2009	My Place	Ellen	Episode: "2008 Laura"
2012	Redfern Now	Grace	Episode: "Family"

Other

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Black Chicks Talking	Director	Documentary
2009	Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun	Director	Short film
2009	My Place	Writer	Episode: "2008 Laura"
2012	She Say	Director / Writer	Video short
2012	Redfern Now	Director	Episode: "Sweet Spot"

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