Maeve Dermody Biography

Maeve Dermody (born 2 November 1985) is an Australian actress. After a film appearance as a child (age 5), her adult acting career has included work in Australian television, theatre, short films and movies. She characterizes her own acting goal as "to be able to play different characters every time, without traces of myself".

Early life

She is the daughter of Susan Murphy Dermody, a film theorist, historian, and director. Her father is a psychologist. Dermody's family encouraged a love of literature and the arts, and supported performing as well - her mother gave Dermody her first part when she was 5 years old in the film her mother directed Breathing Under Water (1993). Dermody attended Mosman High School in Sydney with a near-perfect UAI (99.97). During high school she was active in drama classes, as well as the Australian Theatre for Young People, and furthered her acting education with several courses at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.

Career

While still in high school, Dermody began getting roles in Australian television series such as All Saints (1998), and in short films. Her first major film role was in the independent thriller Black Water (2007), about a trio of people trapped in the mangroves of the North Territory by a menacing Saltwater Crocodile. Dermody's performance in "Black Water" earned her multiple nominations for Best Supporting Actress awards in the Australian film industry. Her next major film role was in Beautiful Kate (2009), for which she was again nominated for the AFI Best Supporting Actress Award. She had a lead role in the 2010 well-received film Griff the Invisible, and in the 2012 miniseries Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms.

In 2013, Dermody starred in the 10-part TV series drama Serangoon Road as Claire Simpson who is married to Frank (played by Jeremy Lindsay Taylor) but having an affair with Sam (played by Don Hany).

Dermody is also active in the Australian theatre, having appeared in such diverse productions as Killer Joe, Measure for Measure, Our Town, and played Nina in The Seagull, all for the major theatre companies in Sydney.

At Christmas, 2015, Dermody starred as Vera Claythorne in BBC One's version of Agatha Christie's thriller And Then There Were None.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Breathing Under Water	Maeve
2003	All Shook Up	Billy	Short
2003	White Collar Blue	Amanda Payne	TV series (1 episode)
2006	A Fairytale of the City	The Girl	Short
2006	Secretary		Pilot for TV series
2006	All Saints	Taylor Patterson	TV series (1 episode "Truth Hurts")
2006	Monarch Cove	Charlotte Lee	TV series (1 episode)
2007	Walnut	Ghyselle	Short
2007	Black Water	Lee
2007, 2009	The Chaser's War on Everything	Various	TV series (2 episodes)
2009	Shot Open	Amelia Walsh	Short
2009	Past Midnight	Ginny	Short
2009	Beautiful Kate	Toni
2009	My Place	Evelyn	TV series (1 episode: "1918 Bertie")
2009	At the Breakfast Table		Short
2010	Griff the Invisible	Melody
2010	Magpie	Martha	Short
2011	Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo	Rachel Carr	TV mini-series
2012	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Eunice Henderson	TV series (1 episode: "Murder on the Ballarat Train")
2012	Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms	Lee	TV series (6 episodes)
2012	Rake	Polly Nesbitt	TV series (2 episodes)
2012	Dangerous Remedy	Jo Wainer	TV film
2012	Almost	Emily	Short
2013	Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story	Anna Murdoch	TV miniseries
2013	Serangoon Road	Claire Simpson	TV series (10 episodes)
2013	Greg's First Day	Mandy	Short
2014	The Fear of the Darkness	Dr. Sarah Faithfull
2015	And Then There Were None	Vera Claythorne	BBC One miniseries
2016	2:22	Sandy
2016	Marcella	Grace Gibson	ITV miniseries
2016	Ripper Street	Prudence Sumner	Season 5
2016	Pawno	Kate
2017	SS-GB	Sylvia Manning