Jacqueline McKenzie

Jacqueline McKenzie

Birth name	Jacqueline Susan McKenzie
Born	October 24 1967 (1967--) (age 40) Sydney, NSW, Australia
Years active	1987 - present
Spouse(s)	Bill Walter (1996-2000)
Official site	www.jacquimckenzie.com

Jacqueline Susan McKenzie (born October 24, 1967^[1]) is an Australian film, television and stage actress.

McKenzie made her film debut in the 1987 film Wordplay and on stage in Child Dancing for Griffin Theatre Company. She made a strong impression in Romper Stomper (1992), and over the next couple of years came to be regarded as one of Australia's most promising young actresses. She received Australian Film Institute Award nominations for her roles in Stark, This Won't Hurt a Bit (both 1993), The Battlers and Traps (both 1994) before winning two awards in 1995 for "Best Actress in a Television Drama" for Halifax f.p: Lies of the Mind, and Best Actress in a Leading Role" for Angel Baby. With this success she ventured to the United States and secured a Green Card, as a "Person of Extraordinary Ability". She subsequently had acting roles in films such as Deep Blue Sea (1999) and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002).

Jacqueline McKenzie as Diana Skouris

In 2004, she began playing the lead female role Diana Skouris in the science fiction television series The 4400, one of the year's biggest successes. The show has a confirmed fourth season for 2007. She also played a lead role in an episode of Two Twisted (2006), an Australian television program. McKenzie appeared on television again in 2006 playing Linda Landry in Umney's Last Case, the third episode of Nightmares and Dreamscapes on TNT.

She has recorded a collection of songs: Shy Baby, Boo Boo, Find Me, Summer, Under The Elm and Ever. Shy Baby was used in the second season finale of The 4400, and will be included in the show's soundtrack released in April 2007.

She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. McKenzie dated Australian actor Daniel Pollock (who appeared with her in Romper Stomper) before he committed suicide in 1992.

In 1996, a portrait of McKenzie by Garry Shead was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics".^[2]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
1987	Wordplay	Pandora Imogene Lesley
1987	The Riddle of the Stinson	Usherette
1988	All the Way	Penelope Seymour
1992	Romper Stomper	Gabrielle
1993	This Won't Hurt a Bit	Vanessa Prescott
1993	Stark	Rachel
1994	Halifax FP episode Lies of the Mind	Sharon Sinclair
	Talk	The Girl
	Traps	Viola
	The Battlers	Dancy Grimshaus
1995	Roses Are Red	Joy
1995	Angel Baby	Kate
1996	Mr. Reliable	Beryl Muddle
1997	The Devil Game	Frankie Smith
	A Cut in the Rates
	Kangaroo Palace	Catherine Macaleese
	Under the Lighthouse Dancing	Emma
1998	Freak Weather	Penny
1998	Love from Ground Zero	Samantha
1999	Deep Blue Sea	Janice Higgins
2000	Kiss Kiss Bang Bang	Emma
	On the Beach	Mary Davidson Holmes
	Eisenstein	Pera
2001	When Billie Beat Bobby	Margaret Court
2002	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Younger Teensy Whitman
2003	Preservation	Daphne
2004	Human Touch	Anna
2004	Peaches	Jude
2005	Opal Dream	Annie Williamson
2006	Nightmares and Dreamscapes episode Umney's Last Case	Linda Landry/Gloria Demmick

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	A Country Practice	Meredith Hendrix	Guest role, in the "Riding for a Fall" two-part episode
2002	Without a Trace	Patricia Mills	Guest role, in episode "Deep Water" (11th March 2007)
2004	The 4400	Diana Skouris	Lead role
2006	Two Twisted	Sarah Carmody	Guest role, in episode "Saviour"

References

^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/9/Jacqueline-McKenzie.html
^ Archibald Prize 07. Art Gallery NSW. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.

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