Kirrily White (born 1973) is an Australian actress.
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Born and raised in Sydney, White was involved in school plays and concerts st a young age, while also studying ballet, piano and drama.[1] White aspired to have an acting career and, when she was 14, along with 70 other teenagers, she wrote and performed a play called Winds of the Solstice at the Sydney Opera House.[1] After completing high school, White began an arts degree at Sydney University, studying English, Linguistics, Philosophy and Australian Literature, but focusing on drama.[1] In 1994, White moved to Perth to focus on her acting career.[1]
White began her television acting career with a guest role on Murder Call in 1997 and had another small role in Children's Hospital in the same year.[1] She also had a one episode role in Murder Call.[2] In 1998 she joined the cast of Australian hospital drama All Saints playing nurse Stephanie Markham.[1] After 106 episodes she left the series in 2000.[3][4] White had a one episode role in White Collar Blue.[5] In 2003, White had a guest role in the third season of The Secret Life of Us in the episode, "Playing With Fire".[6]
In 1997, White appeared in a Sydney Theatre Company of Mongrels. She also appeared in another STC production in the same year, Private Lives.[1] White appeared in the theatre production A Moment on the Lips in 2003 that played at the Old Fitzroy Hotel Theatre.[7]
In 2005 she appeared in The Department Store.[8]
White formerly worked as a behavioural therapist for The L.E.A.R.N. Foundation, an organisation that works with children with autism.[9]