Alice Garner (born 1969) is an Australian actress, musician and historian.
She is the daughter of Australian writer Helen Garner and writer and actor Bill Garner.
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Garner's acting career began as a child in the 1982 film Monkey Grip adapted from her mother's 1977 novel of the same name. She was nominated for an AFI Award for her role. She starred in Love And Other Catastrophes in 1996, winning the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for best supporting actress, and in the ABC TV series SeaChange.
In September 2001 she and Kate Atkinson (with whom she had worked on SeaChange) founded Actors for Refugees, to improve community attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers.
She is an occasional Brains Trust member on ABC-TV's The Einstein Factor.
Garner speaks French fluently and in 2001 gained a Ph.D. in French history from the University of Melbourne for her study of representations of sea and shore in south-western France.
Presently Garner is an ARC postdoctoral research fellow at La Trobe University and is researching the history of the Australian-American Fulbright Program. In her own time, she is also investigating the history of hitchhiking.
She has published two books: The Student Chronicles (MUP 2006), a memoir of her undergraduate years at Melbourne University, and A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000 (Cornell University Press, 2005), which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's General History Prize in the year it was published.
She plays cello in Euphonia and the Xylouris Ensemble. The Xylouris Ensemble performs contemporary, original and traditional Cretan music.[1]
Garner lives in Melbourne with her husband David Bowers and their three children in a house immediately adjoining her mother's.[3]