1. Marta Dusseldorp is an Australian stage, film and theatre actress.
19 Facts About Marta Dusseldorp
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Marta Dusseldorp is a producer, as co-founder and co-owner with her husband Ben Winspear of Archipelago Productions in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Marta Dusseldorp's great-grandfather was one of seven brothers in a family from Dumbarton, on the west coast of Scotland, in which eight of ten sons studied medicine at the University of Glasgow.
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Marta Dusseldorp attended Ascham School and then Geelong Grammar School, graduating in 1990, and the University of New South Wales, where she majored in theatre and film for two years.
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Marta Dusseldorp then went on to study at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne.
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Marta Dusseldorp started her career on the stage, performing in productions of The Lost Echo, The War of the Roses, and The Bourgeois Gentleman.
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Marta Dusseldorp has worked with Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Griffin, The Ensemble, Bell Shakespeare, and Melbourne Theatre Company.
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Marta Dusseldorp returned to the stage in 2016 in the premiere of Benedict Andrews' play Gloria with the Griffin Theatre Company.
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Marta Dusseldorp played Sam Lawson in the telemovie series BlackJack.
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Marta Dusseldorp reprised the role in the 2014 spin-off Janet King.
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Marta Dusseldorp played Linda Hillier opposite Guy Pearce in all of the Jack Irish TV series, which ran from 2012 to 2021.
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Marta Dusseldorp played Sarah Adams in the series A Place to Call Home, which was the most-watched drama series in 2013, and ran until 2018.
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In 2020, Marta Dusseldorp was announced to appear in Foxtel drama Wentworth in the role of Shelia Bausch.
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Marta Dusseldorp is co-creator and producer of the 2023 comedy series Bay of Fires, taking a lead role as a wealthy businesswoman, along with a number of other prominent actresses, such as Kerry Fox, Pamela Rabe, and Yael Stone.
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Marta Dusseldorp was announced as part of the cast for With or Without You.
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Marta Dusseldorp won the award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play in the 2009 Helpmann Awards for her performance as Queen Margaret in Benedict Andrews' The War of the Roses with the Sydney Theatre Company.
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In 2022 Marta Dusseldorp was named as a member of the Screen Australia board and its campaign of 'Make It Australian'.
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Marta Dusseldorp is married to fellow actor Ben Winspear, and they have two children.
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Marta Dusseldorp was born in Wagga Wagga but raised in Hobart, and the whole family moved there from Sydney in 2018.