Mandy McElhinney
Mandy McElhinney is an Australian actress best known for playing Rhonda in AAMI insurance adverts. She's appeared on the sketch comedy television series, Comedy Inc., between 2003 to 2006.[1]
She is known for appearing in many other Australian television series and films including a recurring role in 2002 and 2003 on MDA, small roles in various crime and medical dramas, and a guest role as a shop assistant in Kath & Kim. She also appeared in the film The Bank.[2] She is also a regular in stage productions, including with the Melbourne[3] and the Sydney Theatre Companies[4] Recently, she starred as Rhonda in the AAMI Safe Driver rewards series of commercials. The ad and her character's love story within it, consequently became a major part of Australian popular culture. She plans to appear as Francis Bolton in the Australian drama series Love Child.
Mandy recently starred as Kerry Packer's down-trodden PA, "Rose" in Channel Nine's TV mini-series "Howzat! Kerry Packer's War"[5] for which she won the AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama and was nominated for the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress in a Series and as the new Editor-in-Chief of Packer's newly acquired Woman's Day magazine, Nene King, in series 2 of ABC1's Paper Giants mini-series "Magazine Wars".[6]
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