38 Facts About Jacqueline McKenzie

Jacqueline Susan McKenzie was born on 24 October 1967 and is an Australian film and stage actress.

Jacqueline McKenzie studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of New South Wales.

Jacqueline McKenzie took regular singing lessons with Australian vocal coach Bob Tasman-Smith.

In 1987, Jacqueline McKenzie was cast as the lead in the pilot of television series All The Way alongside Ben Mendelsohn, Robert Mammone, Rowena Wallace and Martin Sacks.

In 1991, Jacqueline McKenzie was awarded "Best Newcomer Award" from the Sydney Theatre Critics Circle, which recognised her chameleon-like ability and her consistently high-calibre work in theatre productions Child Dancing, The Master Builder, Twelfth Night and Rebecca.

Jacqueline McKenzie was cast in the film and went on to win Best Actress award at the Film Critics Circle of Australia.

Jacqueline McKenzie is an actor who is both delicate and magical.

Jacqueline McKenzie's character plays an essential part in creating the inexorable force and impact of the film.

In 1994, Jacqueline McKenzie starred alongside David Wenham, Geoffrey Rush and Richard Roxburgh in Shakespeare's Hamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, for Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney.

Jacqueline McKenzie is a Joan to make the theatrical heavens rejoice.

Jacqueline McKenzie offers us Joan in all her innocence, ignorance, joyful goodness that seems to light her from within and, almost until the end, a youthful sense of fun.

Always in focus, like an unwavering flame, is Jacqueline McKenzie's Joan the Maid" and "Here is a Joan with such fortitude and faith that seems hardly possible to exist within such a delicate frame.

Jacqueline McKenzie received an Australian Film Institute Award nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries for the role.

In 1994, Jacqueline McKenzie reunited with director George Ogilvie to play the lead role of Dancy Smith in the adaptation of Kylie Tennant's famous depression-era drama The Battlers.

Jacqueline McKenzie was nominated again for Best Actress in a TV Drama at the Australian Film Institute 1994 awards.

That same year, Jacqueline McKenzie was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the feature film Traps, directed by Pauline Chan.

In 1996, Jacqueline McKenzie was awarded Australian Star of the Year at the Australian Movie Convention.

Jacqueline McKenzie starred in the UK independent films Eisenstein with Simon McBurney and Kiss Kiss with Stellan Skarsgard, Chris Penn and Paul Bettany.

In 2001, Jacqueline McKenzie was given a United States green card in March 2001 for "Person of Extraordinary Ability".

Jacqueline McKenzie made her US theatre debut, starring as Rita in Willy Russell's Educating Rita, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival directed by Bruce Paltrow and co-starring Edward Herrmann.

Jacqueline McKenzie was cast as a lead in the US television pilot for ABC called MEDS, directed by Michael Hoffman and starring John Hannah.

In 2004, Jacqueline McKenzie made the switch to prime-time television in a role that would catapult her to international stardom.

In 2008, Jacqueline McKenzie starred as psychiatrist Veronica Hayden-Jones in the 13-part series Mental on the Fox Network, which was filmed at Fox Telecolombia in Bogota, Colombia.

Jacqueline McKenzie squirms, hops, skips and flops through the drama with a manic intensity that is breathtaking to watch from the first scene when she works her way through about a dozen changes of clothing and many pairs of 'hot' shoes during her long and intense opening monologue" and "McKenzie has been playing some major roles in Sydney recently but here is a great one, finally worthy of her ability, and she rises to it magnificently.

Jacqueline McKenzie's Maggie is full of feverish energy, and hard-won, hard-edged glamour that a woman who has clawed herself up out of poverty to become the wife of the descendant of a crass but very rich family might be expected to display.

Jacqueline McKenzie is beautiful, her smile is always bright but brief glimpses of self-doubt betray her origins, and her eyes betray her desperation.

Jacqueline McKenzie returned to the Sydney Opera House in 2014 to play Liza in Andrew Upton's adaptation of the Gorky classic Children of the Sun for the Sydney Theatre Company.

In 2014, Jacqueline McKenzie reunited with her Romper Stomper co-star, Russell Crowe, to perform in his feature-film-directing debut, The Water Diviner, in which he stars.

In 2015, Jacqueline McKenzie starred alongside Richard Roxburgh and Cate Blanchett in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The Present, by Anton Chekhov.

Jacqueline McKenzie starred as Orlando in the Sarah Ruhl play Orlando, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf.

Jacqueline McKenzie was nominated for Best Actress in Orlando and Best Supporting Actress in The Present at the 2015 Sydney Theatre Awards.

Jacqueline McKenzie starred as Jane Chandler in Australian feature film The Gateway in October 2016.

In May 2017, SBS announced that Jacqueline McKenzie had been cast in their new four-part drama Safe Harbour about a group of Australians who come across a boat of refugees whilst sailing on vacation.

In June 2017 Jacqueline McKenzie began filming Luke Sparke's movie Occupation with Charles Mesure, Temuera Morrison and Dan Ewing about a group of town residents banding together after a devastating ground invasion.

At the CinefestOZ awards in August 2017, Jacqueline McKenzie was honoured with the Screen Legend Award, recognising her contribution and excellence in the film industry.

In 2021, Jacqueline McKenzie appeared with Annabelle Wallis in James Wan's horror film Malignant, and starred alongside Jane Seymour in Australia feature film Ruby's Choice.

In 1996, a portrait of Jacqueline McKenzie by Australian narrative painter Garry Shead was a finalist in the Archibald Prize and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.

Jacqueline McKenzie is a former partner of actor Simon McBurney.