1. Yael Stone has worked extensively in Australian theatre and has won two Sydney Theatre Awards.
15 Facts About Yael Stone
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Yael Stone was born and raised in Sydney, New South Wales, the daughter of Judy, a nurse, and Harry Stone, an architect.
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Yael Stone's father was born in Czechoslovakia, to Holocaust survivor parents.
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Yael Stone's father is from a Jewish family and her mother, who is of Romanian descent, converted to Judaism.
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Yael Stone was a sickly child, spending periods in hospital with asthma and pneumonia, so did not participate in sport.
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Yael Stone took speech and drama lessons with a local woman, Robin Fraser, who encouraged her to develop her skills in performing and writing.
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Yael Stone attended the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts and then the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
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Yael Stone began acting as a child, with roles in the film Me Myself I and the miniseries The Farm.
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Yael Stone worked in television, including supporting roles in All Saints and Spirited.
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Yael Stone moved to New York permanently in December 2011 and co-founded an experimental theatre company.
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Yael Stone plays Lorna Morello, a prisoner from Boston; her accent, a mixture of Brooklyn and Boston, was called "the most amazing accent on television" by a journalist for The New Republic, while another reviewer deemed the role to be Yael Stone's "breakout turn".
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Yael Stone reprised her role in the show's second season, and was billed as a series regular in the third season.
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Yael Stone appeared as dog walker, Beth in the HBO and web series High Maintenance in 2016.
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In 2021 Yael Stone played Eleona, a barmaid with a mysterious past, in the AMC+ series Firebite, an Indigenous Australian vampire horror, comedy series created by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher.
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Yael Stone started dating Jack Manning Bancroft, founder of Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience.