Alice Miriam Olivia Garner is an Australian actor, author, musician, teacher and historian.
12 Facts About Alice Garner
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Alice Garner is the daughter of Australian novelist and screenwriter Helen Garner and playwright, historian and actor Bill Garner.
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Garner's acting career began as a child in the 1982 film Monkey Grip adapted from her mother's 1977 novel of the same name, which Alice featured in as a character, under the name of Gracie.
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Alice Garner was nominated for an AFI Award for her role.
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Alice Garner starred in Love And Other Catastrophes in 1996, winning the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for best supporting actress, and played the role of Carmen in the popular ABC TV series SeaChange.
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Alice Garner held an ARC Linkage postdoctoral research fellowship at La Trobe University from 2009 to 2012, researching the history of the Australian-American Fulbright Program.
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Alice Garner has worked on projects relating to digital exclusion and diversity in the teacher workforce.
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In 2022 Alice Garner was awarded an ANU Australian Studies Institute Visiting Fellowship and in 2023, a National Library of Australia research fellowship, to research the life and times of Mavis Robertson AM.
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Alice Garner became involved in community actions to support her local government secondary school and this inspired her to train in secondary teaching at Victoria University.
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Alice Garner worked as a French and History teacher at Albert Park College from 2015 to 2019 and co-led the Languages curriculum team with colleague Tasha Brown.
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Alice Garner has been playing cello since the age of ten, and was a long-time member of the Xylouris Ensemble.
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Alice Garner currently plays in a trio, Sunshine Tip, with David Bowers and Dee Hannan, and has played the euphonia with Mairead Hannan and Dee Hannan.