Anita Hegh

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Anita Hegh (born May 11, 1972) is an Australia actor. She is well-known for starring as Ellen 'Mac' Mackenzie on Stingers.

[edit] Life

Her mother is Estonian and her father is Norwegian.^{[citation needed]} Her father came to Australia at the age of 14. Anita has one brother. She married her long-time friend Peter Evans in 2002.

Anita Hegh set out to be a teacher but after auditioning at NIDA, her career path changed. Anita went to audition at NIDA so she could overcome her shyness.^{[citation needed]}

Hegh studied drama at NIDA, graduating in 1994.

[edit] Career

After minor roles in Cosi (1996), Paradise Road (1997 and the children's television series Return to Jupiter, Hegh became well-known starring as Ellen 'Mac' Mackenzie on Stingers, which she starred on from 1998 to 2002.

Hegh's most recent roles were starring alongside Jason Donovan in the ABC miniseries Loot, a four episode guest role on MDA in 2005, for which she won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and a recurring role on Last Man Standing. She also guest starred as an American Coach in an episode of Holly's Heroes.

In 2005, she performed in a psychodrama entitled The Yellow Wallpaper which was an adaptation from a novella of the same title by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This play was adapted by Hegh and Evans and directed by Evans. Hegh is a nominee Green Room Award as the best female actor for the role. [1]