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Molly Daniels is an Australian actress, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles in You're Skitting Me, Tomorrow When the War Began,[1] Ronny Chieng: International Student and Very Small Business.[2] She has also written, directed, created, and produced web series and songs, and hosted the children's podcast Short and Curly.[3][4][5]

Molly Daniels
Born	Australia
Nationality	Australian
Citizenship	Australian
Occupation	Actress, writer, director, producer
Years active	2004–present
Known for	You're Skitting Me Tomorrow When the War Began[1] Ronny Chieng: International Student
Notable work	The InBESTigators
Parent(s)	Robyn Butler (mother) Wayne Hope (stepfather)

Early life and education

Daniels knew from a very young age that she wanted to be a performer, especially in comedy.[6] This was due to the influence of her family: her mother is actress Robyn Butler, and her stepfather is actor Wayne Hope,[7] and Daniels grew up in a household with comedy.[6][8] Her mother recalled "Our girls are both really funny. They take great pride in being able to make us laugh, and I'm a particularly good audience for them.".[7]

While she was a student, the casting team of You're Skitting Me visited the school to cast actors for characters. She auditioned, got a part for a show and got an agent.[6] After graduating from secondary education, she studied film and television at Swinburne University in 2014.[6] She studied at the iO Theatre in Chicago, USA.[9]

Career

She began her acting career in 2004 in a flower girl role in Stories from the Golf.[10] She got attention and had her first break by acting on You're Skitting Me and played Ellie's lead role in Tomorrow When the War Began.[11] She also starred in the comedy series Back In Very Small Business, playing Sam Angel as a lead role. She had her first leading role, 'Asher' throughout the Ronny Chieng: International student series.[11] Throughout her career, she participated in various forms of media such as short films, films, and television series such as Party Tricks, The Librarian, Stories from The Golf, and Fans Forever. In an interview, she mentioned that her goal is to do a half-hour sitcom in the comedy field as it has been her interest, and she produces it with her friends.[12] Also, in another interview, she said that as she loves her work, she is looking forward to more writing; for example, a series of books can be ideal.[13]

Molly Daniels said she faced a challenge when filming for Tomorrow When the War began. In previous works, such as 'You're Skitting Me', she played four or five different characters a day because the structure of a show is jumping around sketches. However, in Tomorrow When the War Began, the program's weight was more significant than the You're Skitting Me structure. She had to play the same character for six episodes and nine weeks of shooting. Moreover, more effort was required as an actor as there was a film beforehand, she wanted to keep the audience's interest via experimental ideas while keeping characters and identities from the books. Furthermore, it was physically challenging as well because there were some pretty hardcore stunts, such as real bombs and explosions scenes. Hence, she had to get fire alarm training and how to use guns, and despite the training, she got some injuries.[14] Also, an average day on set will start from 5 o'clock morning if they film far away. Due to a characteristic of a film, there were many moving throughout the shooting and sometimes it took an hour to be out of the country. They will get through six or seven big scenes in one day and somedays it involves night shoots that involve an actor's energy and determination.[15]

She worked on two movies every year throughout her career, at least one show every year. She worked in comedy, drama, action, adventure, documentary, and talk shows.[16]

Other ventures

She said the reason she could explore various media platforms because she experienced all the things she could. When she was young she tried a lot of activities, figuring out that she likes guitar, drama and writing, but dislikes sports.[8]

She began directing and writing for the show You're Skitting Me and lyrics for songs in the comedy show Upper Middle Bogan.[17] She participated in all parts of production in Young Love, an eight-part web series, and Double Date Night.[11] She also participated in and directed the behind-the-scenes featurettes of the ASB show Little Lunch, and worked as a drama coach.[10] She wrote for The InBESTigators, a children's series, and participated as a host and co-host for the podcast Short & Curly for kids and their parents.[11]

As a producer and director, Daniels worked on the small scale of media such as shows and web series rather than blockbuster movies, as she likes to put her insights or values into the work. For instance, Double date night, a TV series based on two best friends or housemates, Vic and Riley, about going on a double date every Wednesday. Molly Daniel later says that it was a project with her passion as she wanted to compose a female-led comedy focusing on love and dating in various forms.[18] Also, a comedy web series 'Celebration Nation' explores a new definition of the media environment. Series challenges male-dominated or centred production as it centres ethnically and sexually diverse women with crews, making it three cis-gendered. Thus, Molly Daniels seeks diversity and alterations, such as hiring fresh faces, because, throughout her career, she has been surrounded by full of middle-aged white men.[19] As for herself, she changed the world by including the people, listening to and respecting other people, and finding out what she could do to help them.[8] In return, people will listen and do the same, resulting in a positive feedback loop.

As a writer, Molly Daniel gets inspired by shows in various aspects of daily life. For instance, celebration nation, the concept emerged from the two-week quarantine and shift in perspectives as she decided to focus on the situations rather than the people working in retail.[20] Also, Gaby and Jenny, who operated the show together, brainstormed the ideas that led to their wanting to do something their age, 20s but were not overdone, such as a dating show. Hence, they chose retails that they all had an experience with and knew they could do it well. They put random ideas until they got stuck, but in the end, they try to make it relate to at least one highlight retail moment and one holiday moment.[21] For a Double date night, she wrote it as therapy when she had a crush on this guy about him and her talking, which became characters and then a date idea came later on.[6] Moreover, Molly Daniel also focuses on the show's values, community, and themes when she writes. For instance, The InBESTigators, an Australian mockumentary children's television series that discusses friendship, responsibility, teamwork, and the aspects of children's lives, focused primarily on the nature of 10 years old rather than comedy itself.[7] Furthermore, in a podcast, Short & Curly, she discusses ethical questions with kids and the experts, such as "Should you move to Mars?", "Is it ever OK to lie" and "Can you trust a robot?". This leads to how kids think about specific topics and learn values that are more than just entertainment television shows.[22]

She has her way of working with various mediums and roles that Molly Daniel works. For instance, the releasing strategy. She releases week by week with a strict deadline from the start, as in the past, she had experiences that she drawn out the whole process.[23] In addition, she recruits actors and crews based on her social network. She went to Swinburne for a year to do a film and tv course, which let her know different people and extended her social network. It's how she recruited people for Double Date Night. Also, Juliet, who co-produced the work, knew various people as well as she graduated from Swinburne and helped organise everythin.[6] It was a crew that knew each other. For a Casting wise, improvisers worked with them and actors are known or known of and few random casts. Similarly, for Celebration Nation, Jenny and Gabby, who are friends of Molly, re-connected in 2020 LA. Later, Jenny came up to Gabby and Molly with an opportunity to write a show, pitch ideas, and get selected from Screen Australia.[21]

Danielx also works with a family such as The InBESTigators, The Librarians and Upper Middle Bogan. Her mother and father work as writers, producers, and directors for most shows, and she is a writer or director.[24] Having a parent working in a media environment with their production company, Gristmill naturally leads to collaboration. Moreover, she filmed a YouTube video with her mum about how to make White Wine Pasta, and she has a YouTube channel.[25] Her YouTube channel consists of 9 videos from 2010 to 2015. These videos contain various aspects of Molly Daniel, such as birthday video messages to a friend, how to style hair, a dating guide, song covers and more.[26]

Her talents led to the establishment of her own production company, Yung Victoria, in 2016. Through Yung Victoria, Double date night, The Y2KBug got created, produced, edited and promoted. They also opened a competition Unscene short film competition in 2017 and 2018.[10]

Script and Continuity Department

Year	Title	Role	Identification
2017	The Y2K Bug	Script consultant	TV series

Art Department

Year	Title	Role	Identification
2015	How to Be Funny	Cartoonist	Documentary Short

Thanks

Year	Title	Description
2015	Now Add Honey	the producers would like to thank

Self

Year	Title	Episodes	Identification
2018	Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation	Episode 5.3	TV series

Drama Coach

Year	Title	Episodes	Identification
2015 ~ Current	Short & Curly	81 episodes	Podcast series documentary
2015	Little Lunch	26 episodes	TV series

Editor

Year	Title	Episodes	Identification
2015	Young Love	2 episodes The Traumatized, The Trio	TV Series
2016	Double Date Night	6 episodes	TV series

Podcast

Year	Title	Role	Production
2015 ~ Current	Short & Curly	Co-host and co-writer	Podcast series documentary

Writer

Year	Title	Episodes/ Description	Identification
2012 ~ 2013	You're Skitting Me	Sketch Writer	TV Series
2013 ~ 2014	Upper Middle Bogan	Contributing Lyricist	TV series
2015	Short & Curly	81 episodes	Podcast
2015	Young Love	8 episodes: "The Traumatized", "The Thespians", "The Psycho & Her Beard", "The Campaigners", "The Trio", "The Busy Bodies", "The Witch & Her Creation", "The Captains"	TV series
2016	Double Date Night	6 episodes	TV series
2017	The Y2K Bug	1 episode: City Cop: Murder Unit	TV series
2019	The InBESTigators	12 episodes & 20 episodes as a staff writer: "The Case of the Fishy fundraiser", "The Case of the Distracted Detective", "The Case of the Freaky Frequency", "The Case of the Interrupting Intern", "The Case of the Lousy Lunch Orders", "The Case of the Problematic Party", "The Case of the Vanishing Koalas", "The Case of the Disoriented Drone", "The Case of the Turtle Thief", "The Case of the Perplexing Painting","The Case of the Wrecked Rehearsal","The Case of the Big Mouth Challenge"	TV Series
2021	Party of the Century	N/A	TV series
2021	Celebration Nation	6 episodes: "Christmas", "Halloween", "Queen's Birthday", "Valentine's Day", "Lunar New Year", "New Year's Eve"	TV series
2021	Funeral of the Century	7 episodes	TV series

Director&Producer

Year	Title	Production	Role	Episodes
2015	Little lunch behind the scenes featuette	Gristmill	Director	8 episodes
2015	Young Love	Blunder Bus Production	Director & Executive producer	8 episodes (producer) & 5 episodes (director): "The Traumatized", "The Thespians", "The Psycho & Her Beard", "The Campaigners", "The Trio", "The Busy Bodies", "The Witch & Her Creation", "The Captains"
2016	Double date night (web series)	Yung victoria	Director & Producer	6 episodes
2017	The Y2K Bug	Yung Victoria	Director & Producer	4 episodes: "City Cop: Murder Unit", "Having a Good Time Together", "High School River", "H4ck H3am"
2021	Party of the Century		Director & Producer	N/A
2021	Celebration Nation		Executive producer	6 episodes: "Christmas", "Halloween", "Queen's Birthday", "Valentine's Day", "Lunar New Year", "New Year's Eve"
2021	Funeral of the Century		Director & Producer	7 episodes

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Type	Role	Director	Production
2014	Everyone's a Robot	Short film	Chloe (voice)	Scott Day & Ella Krober	Midnight Mindset
2019	Fans forever	Short film	Helga	Geta Nash	VCA

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Production	Notes
2004	Stories from the Golf	Flower girl	Wayne Hope	SBS	Episode: "Jitterbug"
2007 ~ 2010	The Librarians	Bridget/Bernadette	Wayne Hope & Tony Martin	ABC TV	Episode: "4 Kilos to Book Week"
2008	Very Small Business	Sam Angel	Diana Reid	ABC TV	3 episodes: "Obligations Under the Taxation Act", "Diversification of Capital", "Human Resources"
2009–2010	The Librarians	Bridget Bernadette	Wayne Hope & Tony Martin	ABC TV	3 episodes: "My Rock", "Romeos and Juliets", "Kerching Kerching"
2012–2013	You're Skitting Me	Various	Dave Cartell & David Swan & Peter Lawler & Corrdell Jigsaw	ABC 3	Main cast (26 episodes) from episode 1.1 to episode 2.13
2014	Party Tricks	Andie	Kate Dennis	Network TEN	Episode: "The Meeting"
2015	Young Love	Hannah	Molly Daniels & Nicholas Davey-Greene	Blunder Bus Productions	Episode: "The Captains"
2015	Comedy Showroom: Ronny Chieng: International Student (Pilot)	Asher	Jonathan Brough	Sticky Pictures Pty Ltd
2016	Double Date Night	Riley	Molly Daniels	Yung Victoria	6 episodes: Episode 1.1 to 1.6
2016	Tomorrow When the War Began	Ellie Linton	Bendan Maher	Tomorrow When The War Began Skagos Series 1 Pty Ltd 2016	Lead role (6 episodes)
2016	Upper Middle Bogan	Ashley	Wayne Hope	Upper Middle Bogan Series 3 Pty Ltd	2 episodes: "Sticking to your principals", "Sons of Anarchy"
2017	The Doctor Blake Mysteries (Series 5)	Sally Murphy	Diana Reid	January Productions Pty Ltd	Episode:"First Dance"
2017	The Y2K Bug (web series)	Essie	Molly Daniels	Yung Victoria	1 episode: "High School River"
2017	Ronny Chieng: International Student (Series 1)	Asher	Jonathan Brough	Sticky Pictures Pty Ltd	6 episodes: "Performance Enhancement", "For the Love of theatre(Er)(Her)", "Extension Quest", "Clash! Ronny vs Instructions! Obey?", "Asian Rules football", "Guest: (N.) Someone Who Leaves"
2017	Get Krack!n	Megan Tech guru	Hayden Guppy	Guesswork Television	1 episode: Episode 1.4
2017	The Housemate	Molly B	Faisal Tannir		Episode: "Teaser Trailer"
2018	Back in Very Small Business	Sam Angel	Robyn Butler	Gristmill	Main cast (8 episodes): "FreeDon of Speech", "Guardian Angel", "Family Trust", "Crossing the Line", "Litigating", "Circumstances", "Bad Influence", "By Design", "All Over Range", "Rover"
2018	Talkin' 'bout your Generation	Guest	Jon Olb	Network Nine
2018	Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell (Series 9)	Various	Jon Olb	ITV Studios Australia Pty Ltd	11 episodes: Episode 9.1 ~ 9.2
2019	Feedback (web series)	Ella	Dylan Murphy	Best Fort Productions	Episode: "Playing"
2021	Part of the Century	Molly	Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini		7 Episodes: Part one ~ Part seven
2021	Celebration Nation	Shay	Jenny Zhou & Gaby Seow & Molly Daniels		6 episodes: "Christmas", "Halloween", "Queen's Birthday", "Valentine's Day", "Lunar New Year", "New Year's Eve"
2021	Funeral of the Century	Molly	Molly Daniels & Dylan Murphy		7 Episodes

Awards and recognitions

Throughout her acting career she did not win awards but in 2021, she was nominated as a Best Short Form Comedy for Celebration Nation shared with Jenny Zhou and Gaby Seow in AACTA Award.[27]

References

External links

• Molly Daniels at IMDb 

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