27 Facts About Lisa McCune

1.

Lisa McCune was born on 19 February 1971 and is an Australian actress, known for her role in TV series Blue Heelers as Senior Constable Maggie Doyle, and in Sea Patrol as Lieutenant Kate McGregor RAN.

2.

Lisa McCune first performed on stage at the age of 15 playing Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz at the Limelight Theatre in Wanneroo, Western Australia.

3.

Lisa McCune graduated with a BA in Music Theatre in 1990.

4.

Lisa McCune performed in a statewide tour of Victorian high schools in the educational John Romeril play about work experience, called Working Out, was in the chorus for a Sydney musical version of Great Expectations starring Philip Gould, and starred as the aspiring ballerina postulant, Sister Mary Leo, in the sequel to the Dan Goggin musical Nunsense.

5.

Lisa McCune had a brief appearance in a re-enactment about a possible UFO-sighting in Bass Strait for the American series Unsolved Mysteries and a role in the 1993 satirical horror movie Body Melt in which her heavily pregnant character was attacked by a ferocious placenta before dying from an exploding stomach.

6.

Lisa McCune sang in a couple of bands, including George Kapiniaris' Flares and Choice.

7.

In 1993, Lisa McCune won the lead part of Allie Carter in the pilot of Newlyweds before being replaced by Annie Jones for the series.

8.

Lisa McCune shot to fame in September 1993 at age 22 when she debuted as Constable Maggie Doyle in Blue Heelers, playing the role until the seventh season.

9.

In 1996 Lisa McCune appeared opposite Brett Climo who played her brother in Blue Heelers, in a friend's film The Inner Sanctuary.

10.

In 1998, Lisa McCune played Cinderella in another Sondheim musical, Into the Woods.

11.

Lisa McCune did two short seasons of the classic two-hander Love Letters.

12.

Lisa McCune was off screens for a year to be a stay-at-home mother.

13.

In 2004, after another year off due to the birth to her second child, Lisa McCune slowly began to return to television.

14.

Lisa McCune again was the advertising face of Coles Supermarkets.

15.

Lisa McCune hosted Seven Network shows The World Around Us and Forensic Investigators.

16.

Lisa McCune appeared as the love interest opposite Matt Day in the ABC telemovie Hell Has Harbour Views.

17.

In September 2005, Lisa McCune guest starred in a four-episode storyline on MDA alongside her former Blue Heelers co-star Paul Bishop.

18.

Lisa McCune has appeared in a number of musicals and other stage productions around Australia, notably as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Hope Cladwell in Urinetown, and Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

19.

From 2007 until 2011, Lisa McCune was in the ensemble cast for the Nine Network drama series, Sea Patrol.

20.

Lisa McCune's character is the executive officer Lieutenant Kate McGregor, of HMAS Hammersley, a fictional Royal Australian Navy patrol boat.

21.

Lisa McCune starred Dr Sam Stewart in Reef Doctors, an Australian television drama series that ran 9 June 2013 to 7 September 2013.

22.

In 2015, Lisa McCune recorded "The Unbearable Price of War", a duet with Lee Kernaghan for his album Spirit of the Anzacs.

23.

In 2019, Lisa McCune appeared in 33 Variations at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, opposite Ellen Burstyn.

24.

Lisa McCune played Gertrude in Bell Shakespeare's 2020 production of Hamlet at the Sydney Opera House, the Canberra Theatre Centre and the Arts Centre Melbourne.

25.

Lisa McCune married Tim Disney, a film technician who was part of the Blue Heelers crew, on 18 February 2000.

26.

Lisa McCune confirmed in 2020 that Disney was her ex-husband but they continue to co-habitate and co-parent.

27.

In 2021, Lisa McCune said she was "happily single", in an interview with Australian Women's Weekly.