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Magdalene Mary Szubanski AO (/ʒəˈbænski/ zhə-BAN-skee;[5] born 12 April 1961) is an Australian comedy actress, author, singer and LGBT rights advocate.[6] She performed in Fast Forward, Kath & Kim as Sharon Strzelecki and in the films Babe (1995) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998), Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet Two (2011). In 2003 and 2004 surveys, she polled as the most recognised and well-liked Australian television personality.[7][6]

Magda Szubanski

AO
Szubanski at Tropfest 2013
Born
Magdalene Mary Szubanski[1]

(1961-04-12) 12 April 1961 (age 61)
Liverpool, Merseyside, England
NationalityAustralian[2][3][4]
EducationSiena College
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Occupation
  • Actress
  • author
  • comedian
  • LGBT rights advocate
Years active1986–present
Notable workEsme Cordelia Hoggett in Babe (1995) and its 1998 sequel
Voice of Miss Viola in Happy Feet (2006)
TelevisionFast Forward (1989–1992)
Kath and Kim (2002–2007)

Szubanski has spoken openly about her struggles with intergenerational trauma, anxiety and suicidal ideation in her teens.[8] She became an activist for LGBT rights and, in 2017, promoted same-sex marriage in Australia.[9] In 2015, Szubanski released her memoir, Reckoning.[10]


Early life and education


Szubanski was born on 12 April 1961, in Liverpool, England.[11] Her mother Margaret (née McCarthy) is Scottish-Irish and came from a poor family. Her father, Zbigniew Szubanski, came from a well-off Polish family and was an assassin in a counter-intelligence branch of the Polish resistance movement in World War II.[12][8][13][14] She is a cousin of Polish actress Magdalena Zawadzka.

She attended Siena College, Melbourne.[12] In 1976, as a Year 10 student, she captained a team on the television quiz show It's Academic.[15] Szubanski studied fine arts and philosophy at the University of Melbourne and, decades later, in 2016, attained a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Arts (degree with honours).[16]


Career



Television


Szubanski in character at the Kath & Kimderella film premiere, August 2012
Szubanski in character at the Kath & Kimderella film premiere, August 2012

Szubanski was a writer and performer of sketch comedy. In 1985, while performing in a University of Melbourne revue of Too Cool for Sandals, Szubanski, Michael Veitch, Tom Gleisner and others were talent-spotted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) producers, which led to The D-Generation television sketch comedy show.[17]

Szubanski was one of the creators and performers of the Fast Forward television sketch comedy for the Seven Network, in which she played various characters, including Pixie-Anne Wheatley, Chenille from the Institute de Beauté, Wee Mary MacGregor, Joan Kirner, Michelle Grogan. The character of Lynne Postlethwaite was first performed on the ABC's The D-Generation. It was originally written by John Allsop and Andrew Knight, but from Fast Forward on Szubanski co-wrote the sketches, and created and co-wrote her characters.

In 1995, she and friends Gina Riley and Jane Turner wrote, performed and produced the first all-female Australian sketch comedy television program; Big Girl's Blouse. When Riley and Turner developed sketch-characters they had created into the sitcom Kath & Kim, Szubanski joined them to play Sharon Strzelecki, a character she had previously created.[18]

In 1999, Szubanski created, wrote, co-produced and played Margaret O'Halloran in the Dogwoman series of TV films, a detective style show based on the idea an expert "dog-whisperer" who, by treating problem dogs, inadvertently stumbles upon and solves human crimes.

Sharon Strzelecki is one of Szubanski's most developed characters
Sharon Strzelecki is one of Szubanski's most developed characters

In 2009, she appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? where she explored her father's Polish Resistance activities as well as the story of her shell-shocked Irish grandfather and her sculptor ancestor Luigi Isepponi who assisted in making the Death mask for William Burke, half of the duo Burke and Hare, notorious grave robbers and serial killers.

From 3 September 2018, Szubanski recurred as Jemima Davies-Smythe on Neighbours. Her character officiated the first same-sex wedding on Australian television.[19]

On 8 April 2019, she appeared as "Guest Announcer" on Chris & Julia's Sunday Night Takeaway's season finale where she participated in a number of roles.

On 9 March 2021, Szubanski was announced as the host of the Nine Network's revival of The Weakest Link. Initially due to premiere on 4 May 2021, it instead premiered on 25 May following a tight production schedule.[20][21][22]


Film


Szubanski performed in the 1995 film Babe as Esme Hoggett. She reprised her role in the 1998 sequel, Babe: Pig in the City. She then teamed up again with director/producer George Miller to voice the role of Miss Viola in the animated films Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two.

In 2007, she had a minor role as Mrs Lonsdale, the housemaid in The Golden Compass to Lyra Belacqua.


Musical theatre


In 2007, Szubanski ventured into musical comedy, taking on the role of William Barfee in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of the hit Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Variety described her performance as "sensationally good".[23] Australian Stage said, "Magda Szubanski as the Eric Cartman-esque William Barfee steals the show."[24]

In 2008, she again participated in some gender-blind casting, taking on the role of pint-sized gangster Big Jule in a major stage production of Guys and Dolls.

In 2010, she appeared in the first Indigenous musical film Bran Nue Dae as Roadhouse Betty alongside Geoffrey Rush, Ernie Dingo, Missy Higgins and Deborah Mailman. The film was directed by Rachel Perkins, daughter of the Aboriginal activist Charlie Perkins.

In 2012, she again teamed with Rush to appear in the Stephen Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.


Other projects


In 2004, Szubanski advertised the airline Jetstar.[7] Szubanski became a spokesperson for the dieting company Jenny Craig in November 2008.[25] Szubanski joined Jenny Craig weighing 110 kg and had been diagnosed with sleep apnoea.[25] By July 2009, she had lost 36 kg to weigh 85 kg.[26] She later regained weight, then was dropped as a spokesperson for Jenny Craig. However, subsequent weight loss led to her being re-signed as their spokesperson. She was later again dropped from Jenny Craig. She was also featured in commercials for Telstra in 2014. In 2019, she appeared in an Uber Eats ad in her Sharon Strzelecki character with a "Kim", referencing fellow Kath & Kim character Kim Craig, but who turns out to be Kim Kardashian.


Memoir


In 2015, Szubanski released a memoir, Reckoning, in large part about her father, Zbigniew Szubanski who was a World War 2 Polish Resistance assassin, and dealing with themes of intergenerational trauma, possible genetic inheritance of traumatic memory and Szubanski's struggles with her own sexuality. The book won the TBA[27] and $40,000 Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction[28] and "Book of the Year" and "Biography of the Year" at the Australian Book Industry Awards. Reviewer Peter Craven, in The Australian, said it would "dazzle every kind of reader" and described it as "a riveting, overwhelmingly poignant autobiography by a woman of genius. It is a book about how someone might live with the idea of killing the thing they love. It is a story of love and death and redemption and a daughter's love for her father. It is an extraordinary hymn to the tragic heroism at the heart of ordinary life and the soaring moral scrutiny of womankind. Every library should have it, every school should teach it."[29] Richard Ferguson in The Sydney Morning Herald wrote, "This is documentary writing of the highest order and Szubanski has given life to an incredible war story…Reckoning, this tale of war and suburbia, sexuality and comedy" and referred to Szubanski as an A-grade non-fiction writer.[30]

Actor and friend Geoffrey Rush launched her book and wrote in The Guardian: "I was absorbed in preparing for King Lear when I read the book. The classical stature of that particular father-daughter relationship didn't go unnoticed. Magda grew up in the shadow of a difficult reckoning — the summation, the questioning, the Elizabethan sense of settling the bill with one's parents. As she phrases it: her father needed to forget— she needed to remember. The only way forward was back. Her book riffs a major life in a reflective minor key. I've got lost in Joyce's Dublin, Woolf's Bloomsbury, the Bronte Sisters' Yorkshire moors. Now I'm enthralled with Magda Szubanski's Croydon, Australia's own collective sub-conscious suburb, the architecture of which she deftly anoints as Bauhaus's "bastard child"...Reckoning is really a non-fiction novel – and its invitation into Magda's story is infectious."[31] The Premier's Award [clarification needed] judges [who?] described Reckoning as 'warm, clear, wise, funny and deeply intelligent. The amplitude of Szubanski's writing is particularly impressive. Her voice has a light surety, while constantly giving narrative and moral weight to the larger themes of grief, family, migration and finding one's place in the world'."[32]


Recognition


In 2019, Szubanski was appointed an officer in the general division of the Order of Australia (AO) "for distinguished service to the performing arts as an actor, comedian and writer, and as a campaigner for marriage equality."[33]


LGBT rights activism


Szubanski has been a vocal campaigner for LGBT rights and for same-sex marriage since coming out publicly.[34] She is patron of the LGBT group, Twenty/10.[35]

During the same-sex Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, Szubanski was interviewed on several TV shows advocating for a "Yes" result.[36] The co-chair of Australian Marriage Equality [who?] rated her crucial in the success of the "Yes" campaign.[37] Some[who?] have credited her contribution to the same-sex marriage survey as having been "crucial"[37] to the outcome. Her appearance on Q&A[38] is considered by some[who?] to be pivotal in the debate.[39] Her National Press Club address, entitled "What It Feels Like To Be An Unwilling Human Guinea Pig In A Political Experiment", spoke of the pain as well as the joy experienced by LGBT people throughout the duration of the survey.[citation needed]


Charity


In 2020, Szubanski and Will "Egg Boy" Connolly raised $190,000 for bushfire affected communities and together with trauma experts co-founded "Regeneration", a creative arts project to provide mental-health support.[40]

In 2013, Szubanski became the Patron of "Twenty10".[41]


Controversies


In 2019, Szubanski was involved in a campaign targeting Christian preacher and rugby league football player Israel Folau after he called on homosexuals to "repent of their sins and turn to God". Szubanski prominently launched an appeal to fund opposition to Folau. After Szubanski was criticized, Folau called for an end to on-line attacks on Szubanski.[42]

In 2020, the Commissioner for eSafety, Julie Inman Grant, told senate estimates that Szubanski had been the target of "Volumetric...co-ordinated right-wing extremist attacks" after she appeared in a COVID safety ad.[43]

In April 2021 Szubanski faced criticism and calls for her to hand back the award which had appointed her officer in the Order of Australia (AO) after she criticised the appearance of Jenny Morrison, wife of the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. Commenting on the Morrisons in a photograph of the Prime Minister signing a condolence book after the death of Prince Philip, Szubanski compared the Prime Minister's wife's appearance to a character in a fictional religious extremist society of sex slaves from the series The Handmaid's Tale.[44][45][46][47][3][48]


Personal life


On 14 February 2012, Szubanski came out in a statement supporting same-sex marriage and stated that she "absolutely identifies as gay" in an interview on Australian TV current affairs program The Project.[49][50] Szubanski has described herself as "culturally Catholic".[51]


Filmography



Television


Year Title Role Notes
1986–1987 The D-Generation Various characters
1988 The D-Generation Goes Commercial Various characters
1989–1992 Fast Forward Pixie-Anne Wheatley, Chenille, Joan Kirner, Mary McGregor, Maggie T & Satan's Brides
1992 Bligh Betsy Bligh
1993 Full Frontal Various characters
The Making of Nothing Judith Gates/Kim Borrodale
A Royal Commission into the Australian Economy Mr Cardigan, Mr Trouser, Bill Kelty
1994 Big Girl's Blouse Herself, Sharon Karen Strzelecki, Lynne Postlethwaite [18]
1995 The Search for Christmas Herself
1996 The Genie from Down Under Doris
1997 Good Guys, Bad Guys Bella Bouvier
1998 Something Stupid Various characters
1999–2001 Farscape Furlow
2000–2001 Dogwoman Margaret O'Halloran
2002–2007 Kath & Kim Sharon Karen Strzelecki, Lorraine Craig
2006 Magda's Funny Bits Mary McGregor, Chenille, Sharon Karen Strzelecki, Lynne Postlethwaite
2009 The Spearman Experiment Host
2010 Who Do You Think You Are? Herself
2014 Rake Helen
Legit Anne Jefferies
It's a Date Mary-Angela
2015 Open Slather Various characters
Stop Laughing... This Is Serious Herself
2016 Anh's Brush with Fame Herself Series 1 Episode 1[52]
Q&A Herself (19 September 2016)[53]
2017 Q&A Herself 23 October
2018 Neighbours Jemima Davies-Smythe 11 episodes
2019 Chris & Julia's Sunday Night Takeaway Herself: Guest Announcer Season Finale: 14 April
2019 My Life Is Murder Miranda Lee Episode: "Old School";
Series 1 Episode 7
2021–2022 Weakest Link (Australia) Herself [54]
2022 God's_Favorite_Idiot Bathroom God
2022 Magda's Big National Health Check Herself Documentary[55]

Film


Year Title Role Notes
1995 Babe Esme Cordelia Hoggett
1998 Babe: Pig in the City Esme Cordelia Hoggett
2002 The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course Brozzie Drewitt
2005 Son of the Mask Neighbour Betty
2006 Happy Feet Miss Viola Voice
2007 Dr Plonk Mrs. Plonk
Goodnight, Vagina Mrs. March Short
Little Deaths Iris
The Golden Compass Mrs. Lonsdale
2010 Bran Nue Dae Roadhouse Betty
Santa's Apprentice Beatrice Voice
2011 Happy Feet Two Miss Viola Voice
2012 Kath & Kimderella Sharon Karen Strzelecki
2013 Goddess Cassandra Wolfe
2017 Three Summers Queenie
2018 The BBQ The Butcher
2019 Ride Like a Girl Sister Dominique
2020 100% Wolf Mrs. Mutton Voice

Stage



Awards


Acting

Writing

Other


References


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На других языках

[de] Magda Szubanski

Magdalene Mary Szubanski AO (* 12. April 1961 in Liverpool) ist eine australische Schauspielerin, Komikerin und Autorin.
- [en] Magda Szubanski

[es] Magda Szubanski

Magdalene M. "Magda" Szubanski (Liverpool, Inglaterra, Reino Unido, 12 de abril de 1961) es una actriz, comediante y presentadora de televisión y de radio británico-australiana. Se hizo conocida por su interpretación de Esme Hoggett, la dueña de Babe, (1995) en la película oscarizada del Babe, el cerdito valiente. Otras de sus interpretaciones destacadas son la de Margaret O'Halloran en la trilogía Dogwoman y de Sharon Strzelecki en Kath & Kim.

[ru] Шубански, Магда

Ма́гда Шуба́нски[1] (иногда неправильно Жуба́нски; англ. Magda Szubanski; род. 12 апреля 1961, Ливерпуль) — австралийская актриса кино и телевидения, сценарист и продюсер.


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