Asher Keddie

Asher Keddie
Asher Keddie in May 2012
Born	(1974-07-31) July 31, 1974 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Actress
Spouse(s)	Jay Bowen (m. 2007) (separated)

Asher Keddie (born 31 July 1974) is a multi-award winning Australian actress. She is known for her theatre work and leading roles in the television series Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, Offspring, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Love My Way, Hawke and Rush.

Keddie won the 2013 Gold Logie award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, for her role as Dr Nina Proudman in the Network Ten drama Offspring. She was considered "third time lucky" after previously being nominated twice for the Gold Logie.

Entertainment career

Television and film career

Keddie had guest roles early in her career in various television dramas, including her first roles in Five Mile Creek (1985), Fortress (1986) and Janus (1994). She played the role of Marriane Sheridan in Blue Heelers (episode 107, season 4 part one) airing on 18 June 1996 and Good Guys, Bad Guys (1997). From 1997 to 1998, she came to the attention of senior network television producers, appearing in State Coroner. Following this, she had a recurring role in Stingers from 2000 to 2004.

Keddie's big break came in 2004, where she had a leading role in Love My Way, a drama series airing on Foxtel. The series ended in late 2007. This role led to Keddie being nominated for various awards for playing the part of Julia Jackson, a woman who struggles to cope with her own identity in the midst of family tragedy. Keddie's award win came at the end of Love My Way's third series in 2006.

In 2009, Keddie appeared in three different roles. She portrayed police officer Liz Cruickshank in the television drama Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and journalist Jacinta Burns, in the TV series Rush, as well as Dr Carol Frost in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

In 2010, Keddie depicted author Blanche d'Alpuget in Hawke, a telemovie about the premiership of Bob Hawke (the Prime Minister of Australia, 1983–91). She also became the star of the drama series Offspring, which began airing in August 2010. In April 2011, she had the leading role of Ita Buttrose in ABC1's telemovie Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, the story of Buttrose’s rise to success as the editor of Cleo magazine.

Stage

Making her theatre debut for the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1998 in Patrick Marber’s Closer, Keddie went on to appear in Cyrano de Bergerac, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Birthrights, Great Expectations, The Seagull and Hannie Rayson’s Life After George. Her performances in the 2005 Melbourne Theatre Company production of Les Liaisons dangereuses, and the Playbox’s The Ishmael Club, both earned her highly respected Green Room Award nominations.^[1]

In 2007 Keddie starred alongside Jay Bowen in the Melbourne Theatre Company's play The Glass Soldier written by Hannie Rayson.^[2]

Personal

Keddie completed her secondary education at St Michael's Grammar School, St Kilda.

She married actor and musician Jay Bowen in January 2007.^[3] The pair separated in December 2011.^[4]

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Asher Keddie.

• Asher Keddie website.
• Asher Keddie at the Internet Movie Database