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Tara Morice (born 23 June 1964) is an Australian actress.

Tara Morice
Morice in 2012
Born	(1964-06-23) 23 June 1964 (age 58)[1] Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation	Actress, singer, dancer
Years active	1991–present

Background

Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Morice also lived in Sydney, Alice Springs and Adelaide as a child. She is a fifth-generation Australian and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Latvian, French and Jewish ancestry.[2] She appeared in a short film for the Tasmanian Film Corporation in 1980, The ABC of Unions.[3] She made her stage debut at Australia's oldest theatre, the Theatre Royal in Hobart in The Diary of Anne Frank, aged 16. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Australian History and English from the Australian National University and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1987.

Career

She has worked extensively on stage in Australia, including productions for the Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre Company, State Theatre of South Australia, Queensland Theatre Company, Malthouse and the Ensemble. She played Fran in Strictly Ballroom when it premiered as a stage play in 1988, and she was a member of Baz Luhrmann's Six Years Old Company.[4] She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in Fat Swan at the 2012 Helpmann Awards and a Victorian Green Room Award for The Venetian Twins in 1990.

Her first film appearance was as Fran in the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom (directed by Baz Luhrmann), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role[5] and an Australian Film Institute award. Morice also appeared on the film's soundtrack, singing a duet of Time After Time with Mark Williams.

Morice has also appeared in the feature films Metal Skin, Hotel Sorrento, Hildegarde, Moulin Rouge!, Candy, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance, Oranges and Sunshine, Dance Academy: The Movie and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. Her many short films include the Oscar nominated Miracle Fish.

Her television work includes roles in Answered by Fire, After the Deluge, Salem's Lot and McLeod's Daughters. Morice had a starring role in the series of three Dogwoman telemovies with Magda Szubanski in 2000. She also plays Miss Raine in Series 1, 2 and 3 of Dance Academy for ABC/ZDF.

She wrote and directed the documentary My Biggest Fan, about her correspondence and friendship with an American great-grandmother, Mildred Levine, who wrote to her after seeing Strictly Ballroom. The film premiered at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, and was broadcast on the SBS network in Australia in 2008.[6]

Morice has a daughter, Ondine Morice Pearce, who was the stills photographer (at age 11) on My Biggest Fan.[7]

She re-recorded Time After Time for Baz Luhrmann's album Something for Everybody and sang on the Strictly Ballroom, Razzle Dazzle : A Journey Into Dance and My Biggest Fan soundtracks.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Strictly Ballroom	Fran
1994	Metal Skin	Savina
1995	Hotel Sorrento	Pippa Moynihan
1997	Square One	Margot
2001	Moulin Rouge!	Prostitute
2001	Hildegarde	Kim Powell
2006	Candy	Aunt Katherine
2007	Razzle Dazzle	Marianne
2007	September	Jennifer Hamilton
2008	Close Distance	Rivka	Short film
2009	Miracle Fish	Mum	Short film
2010	Oranges and Sunshine	Pauline
2013	101 Cupcakes	Agnes Harvey	Short film
2014	Smithston	Mrs. Smithston	Short film
2017	Dance Academy Movie	Lucinda Raine
2021	Peter Rabbit 2	Officiant

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Police Rescue	Jenny	"Mates"
1997	Big Sky	Linda	"Blind Spot"
1998	Water Rats	Anne Milner	"Diminished Responsibility"
1998	A Difficult Woman	Susan Taylor	TV miniseries
1999	Wildside	Rachel Duncan	"2.11"
2000	Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking	Pauline O'Halloran	TV film
2000	Something in the Air	Candy Rogers	Recurring role
2000	Dogwoman: A Grrrl's Best Friend	Pauline O'Halloran	TV film
2000-2003	Grass Roots	Julie Dunkley	Recurring role
2001	Dogwoman: The Legend of Dogwoman	Pauline O'Halloran	TV film
2001	My Husband My Killer	Margaret Inkster	TV film
2003	After the Deluge	Dianne	TV film
2004	Salem's Lot	Joyce Petrie	TV miniseries
2004	Loot	Karen Doakes	TV film
2005	Blue Heelers	Melanie Anderson	Recurring role
2005	McLeod's Daughters	Michelle Hall-Smith	"Out of Time", "Betwixt and Between"
2005	Second Chance	Edwinda	TV film
2006	Answered by Fire	Helen Waldman	TV film
2010	Home and Away	Joanna Scott	Recurring role
2010-2013	Dance Academy	Miss Raine	Recurring role
2013	The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting	Special Guest	"1.4", "1.5"
2013	Whitlam: The Power and the Passion	Margaret Whitlam (Voice)	"Part 2"
2015	Winter	Judith Johansson	Recurring role

References

External links

• Tara Morice at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Tara Morice

Tara Morice (* 23. Juni 1964 in Hobart, Tasmanien) ist eine australische Schauspielerin, Sängerin und Tänzerin.

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[es] Tara Morice

Tara Morice (Hobart, Tasmania; 23 de junio de 1964) es una actriz, cantante y bailarina australiana, conocida por haber interpretado a Fran en la película Strictly Ballroom y a Miss Raine en la serie Dance Academy.

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