Alison Whyte
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Alison Whyte is a Tasmanian born Australian actress best known for her role on the Australian television series Frontline. A former student of classical ballet, Whyte graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts before rising to prominence on Australian television for her role as Emma Ward on Frontline, the ABC's parody of current affairs programs - a role for which she won a Logie Award.
Her other television roles have included the legal comedy-drama Marshall Law 2002 with Lisa McCune and William McInnes, and guest roles on Blue Heelers and SeaChange. In addition to television roles, she has appeared in the two-actor film Saturday Night, with Aaron Pedersen. She has also worked in theatre, with stage roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing.
Since 1995 Whyte and her husband Fred Whitlock have run the Terminus Hotel in Melbourne, Victoria. Their pub is noted for not having gaming machines. Whyte has also visited Vietnam and Cambodia as a spokesperson for Oxfam.
[edit] Selected credits
Film and television credits include:
- Real Stories as Vicky Welsh (2006)
- Small Claims: The Reunion (2006) as Pip
- CrashBurn as Gillian (2003)
- Subterano as JD (2003)
- Marshall Law as Verity Marshall (2002)
- Dogwoman: The Legend of Dogwoman as Jacinta Davies (2000)
- Saturday Night as Simone (2000)
- SeaChange as Katrina Fennessy (1999)
- Good Guys Bad Guys: Only the Young Die Good as Stella Kinsella (1997)
- Blue Heelers as Janelle Davies (1994)
- Frontline as Emma Ward (1994-1997)
- Neighbours as Amber Martin (1985)
