1. Claudia Karvan was born on 19 May 1972 and is an Australian actress and producer.
37 Facts About Claudia Karvan
1. 2.
Claudia Karvan won two similar AFI Awards for her role in Love My Way and in 2014 for her work in The Time of Our Lives.
3.
Claudia Karvan was inducted into the Australian Film Walk of Fame in 2007 in acknowledgment of her contributions to the Australian film and television industry.
4.
Claudia Karvan appeared as Judy Vickers in Puberty Blues.
5.
Claudia Karvan has co-produced House of Hancock and Doctor Doctor.
6.
Claudia Karvan grew up with her mother, Gabrielle Goddard, and two siblings.
7.
Claudia Karvan's biological father, Peter Robins had separated from her mother when Karvan was a newborn.
8.
Claudia Karvan's surname comes from her stepfather, Arthur Karvan, the son of a Greek immigrant, George Karvouniares, who had Anglicised his surname to Karvan.
9.
For primary school Claudia Karvan attended Glenmore Road Public School, Paddington.
10.
Claudia Karvan debuted in the children's film, Molly, where she appeared as Maxie Ireland who befriends a talented dog, Molly.
11.
At 17-years-old Claudia Karvan secured a lead role, Joanna Johnson, in the Australian comedy, caper movie, The Big Steal.
12.
In 1993 Claudia Karvan portrayed a 22-year-old secondary school teacher, Christina Papadopoulos, in The Heartbreak Kid.
13.
Claudia Karvan's character has an affair with a 17-year-old student, Nick Polides.
14.
Claudia Karvan starred alongside fellow Australian actor Guy Pearce in Flynn, later retitledMy Forgotten Man playing the young fiancee of Errol Flynn, and Dating the Enemy where the partners are body swapped.
15.
For Flynn shooting had started in 1989, when Claudia Karvan was 17, but due to various legal and financial disputes it had to be re-shot with some new cast members, a new director and new producers.
16.
Claudia Karvan had auditioned for the lead in the comedy film All Men Are Liars, but did not take it up, which went to fellow actress Toni Pearen.
17.
Claudia Karvan portrayed Grainger's early love interest, Alfhild de Luce, opposite Richard Roxburgh.
18.
Claudia Karvan's character, Audrey, is a survivor, hiding out alongside Dafoe's Elvis, while Hawke's Edward is a vampire scientist.
19.
Just weeks before shooting began on Infidel, Claudia Karvan took over a role from another actress due to schedule conflicts.
20.
Claudia Karvan took the lead role of Asta Cadell, a motorcycle-riding lawyer, in the telemovie Natural Justice: Heat, set in York, Western Australia.
21.
In 2001 Claudia Karvan starting working on The Secret Life of Us, playing the role of Alex Christensen for its telemovie and the following three of four seasons.
22.
Claudia Karvan is a brisk, unbutch, 30-something policewoman; Gibney is a one-time lawyer, at the cusp of middle age.
23.
Besides acting in a lead role, Claudia Karvan was the co-creator, co-producer, and a scriptwriter of three seasons of the drama series Love My Way.
24.
Claudia Karvan clearly has great range and for the past two years she has starred in and produced the cutting edge drama Love My Way.
25.
Claudia Karvan plays a Sydney dentist, Suzy Darling, who has left her husband Steve and moved into a penthouse, which she discovers is haunted by the ghost of a 1980s British rock musician, Henry.
26.
Claudia Karvan was cast as Judy Vickers for two seasons of Puberty Blues.
27.
Claudia Karvan was co-producer of House of Hancock, a fictionalised TV drama of the relationship between Gina Rinehart and her step-mother Rose Porteous.
28.
Claudia Karvan had acted to scripts written by McNamara on The Secret Life of Us, Love My Way, and Puberty Blues.
29.
Claudia Karvan co-created, with Kelsey Munro, and starred in the Australian web television drama series Bump.
30.
Claudia Karvan co-produced the series with John Edwards and his son Dan Edwards.
31.
Claudia Karvan acted at Wharf 1 Theatre in December 1998 in Fred, a play written by Beatrix Christian.
32.
Claudia Karvan first met Jeremy Sparks, an Australian film set constructor and later an engineer, in the late 1980s.
33.
Claudia Karvan is stepmother to pop singer Holiday Sidewinder, Sparks' daughter from a previous relationship with Australian actress Lo Carmen.
34.
Claudia Karvan portrays the adult Suzy Darling and is a co-producer for the series.
35.
At the "What Women Want" forum in September 2002, Claudia Karvan discussed the refugee crisis and criticised the Australian policy of mandatory detention.
36.
Claudia Karvan was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2023 Australia Day Honours for "service to the film and television industry".
37.
Claudia Karvan has won the industry voted category, Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress three times from ten nominations.