1. Anna Torv was born on 7 June 1979 and is an Australian actress.
22 Facts About Anna Torv
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Anna Torv portrayed psychologist Wendy Carr in the Netflix period crime drama Mindhunter from 2017 to 2019, and Tess in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us in 2023.
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Anna Torv is especially known in Australia for the ABC drama The Newsreader, for which she won two consecutive AACTA Awards.
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Torv's paternal aunt, journalist Anna dePeyster, was married to media mogul Rupert Murdoch for 31 years.
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Anna Torv graduated with a performing arts degree in 2001.
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In 2003, Anna Torv played the role of Ophelia with the Bell Shakespeare Company in John Bell's production of Hamlet.
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In 2005, Anna Torv recorded a series of audio books for Scholastic Australia's Solo Collection, including the titles Little Fingers, Jack's Owl, Spike, and Maddy in the Middle, and later did voice work and performance capture for the role of Nariko in the 2007 video game Heavenly Sword.
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Anna Torv then appeared in the BBC series Mistresses in 2008.
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From 2008 to 2013, Anna Torv played Agent Olivia Dunham in the American television series Fringe.
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Anna Torv received an Australians in Film Breakthrough award in 2009.
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Anna Torv has been nominated five times for the Saturn Award for Best Television Actress from 2009 to 2013, winning a total of four times.
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Anna Torv appeared as Virginia Grey on HBO's mini-series The Pacific and later starred in a CollegeHumor Original video as a tyrannical traffic cop.
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In 2014, Anna Torv reprised her role as Nariko in the film adaptation of Heavenly Sword.
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In March 2016, Anna Torv was cast in the role of Dr Wendy Carr, an FBI consultant, in the Netflix drama Mindhunter.
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In July 2021, Anna Torv was cast in the role of Tess in the HBO post-apocalyptic series The Last of Us.
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Anna Torv played newsreader Helen Norville in the ABC series The Newsreader, released in August 2021, which was set in an Australian TV newsroom in the mid-1980s.
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Anna Torv won the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series twice for her performance as Norville, once for each season.
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Anna Torv was nominated for a second Logie for the second season.
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In October 2024, Anna Torv appeared in the Neflix series Territory.
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In December 2008, Anna Torv married American actor Mark Valley, with whom she co-starred in Fringe.
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Anna Torv lived in Los Angeles for over a decade, up until shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020.
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Anna Torv then sold her home and returned to Australia's Gold Coast in early 2020, where she stayed with her mother before moving to Melbourne to film The Newsreader.