Anne Looby
- Actress
- stage director
- playwright
Anne Looby is an Australian actress, producer and stage director. She is known for playing character roles in TV serials.
Career
Screen
Since graduating from NIDA in 1988, Looby has worked in theatre, television and film. She appeared in the serial A Country Practice as vet Anna "Lacey" Newman and All Saints as Julie Archer and the award-winning ABC mini-series Simone de Beauvoir's Babies. She was awarded the AFI for Best Actress in a mini-series for this role.[citation needed]
She has appeared in the feature films Daydream Believer (1992), Willful (2001) and with John Malkovich in Disgrace.[citation needed]
Stage
In 2007, Looby was in Company in the role of Joanna.[1] She appeared in the play Arcadia, winning the Sydney Critic Award.[citation needed]
Looby directed the stage productions of Hi-5 House Hits for international touring in 2014, followed by Hi-5 House of Dreams touring production in 2015. Between 2012 and 2016, she directed school productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night. In addition, Anne has been assistant director at ACA for the 2012, 2014 productions of Reality Bytes.[citation needed]
Between 2006 and 2011, Looby conceived, developed and produced Breast Wishes.[citation needed]
She has taught acting-for-camera and Shakespeare for Beginners at both the NIDA summer school and Theatre Nepean UWS. She has also been a drama coach for HSC drama students.[citation needed]
Looby was a member of the NIDA Board of Studies for 11 years and is a member of the Actors Centre Australia Advisory Board and member of the Sydney arts community and has been a member of MEAA for 30 years.[citation needed]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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1991 | Strangers | Anna | TV movie |
1992 | Over the Hill | TV reporter | Feature film |
1992 | Daydream Believer | Margo | Feature film |
2005 | Alex's Party | Laura | Short film |
2007 | Frail | Mother | Short film |
2007 | Hammer Bay | Lauren Clarke | TV film |
2008 | Disgrace | Rosalind | Feature film |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1985 | Star Search | Contestant with Phillip Stammers (Winner) | TV series |
1989 | Rafferty's Rules | Katherie Dever | TV series |
1991 | Embassy | Kate | TV series |
1990 | A Country Practice | Jennifer Rose | TV series |
1992–1993 | A Country Practice | Anna Lacey Newman | TV series, 148 episodes |
1994 | G.P. | Grace | TV series |
1996 | Heartbreak High | Dana | TV series |
1997 | Simone de Beauvoir's Babies | Louise | TV miniseries |
1997–1998 | Wildside | Carla Wallace | TV series |
1999 | See How They Run | Lilly Morton/Cassidy | TV series |
2000 | Water Rats | Gabrielle Lloyd McMahon | TV series |
2001 | Willful | Katya | |
2001 | Corridors of Power | Caroline Fielding | TV series |
2003 | Always Greener | Margaret Milne | TV series |
2003–2004 | All Saints | Julie Archer | TV series |
2012 | Underbelly | Anthony’s Barrister | TV series |
2013 | Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War | Florence Packer | TV miniseries |
2010–2013 | Dance Academy | Dr. Wicks | TV series |
2016 | Rake | Stella | TV series |
2017 | House of Bond | Kathleen Bond | TV miniseries |
Theatre
As actor
As director / creator
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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2009 | Breast Wishes | Creator / Producer | Seymour Centre, IMB Theatre Wollongong, Riverside Theatres Parramatta, Newcastle Civic Theatre, Playhouse Canberra, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth |
2011 | Breast Wishes | Creator / Producer | Clocktower Centre Melbourne |
2012, 2014 | Reality Bytes | Assistant Director | ACA |
2014 | Hi-5 House Hits | Director | Australian, Asian & UAE tour |
2015 | Hi-5 House of Dreams | Director | Australian & Asian tour |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | Director | School production | |
Twelfth Night | Director | School production | |
Much Ado About Nothing | Director | School production | |
2016 | Breast Wishes | Creator / Producer | Basement Theatre, Gold Coast |
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References
External links
- Anne Looby at IMDb
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- Candy Raymond / Deidre Rubenstein (1986)
- Michele Fawdon / Nicole Kidman (1987)
- Kerry McGuire / Anne Phelan (1988)
- Julia Blake / Pat Thomson (1989)
- Rebecca Gibney (1990)
- Sonia Todd (1991)
- Lisa Hensley (1992)
- Denise Roberts (1993)
- Monica Maughan (1994)
- Jacqueline McKenzie (1995)
- Claudia Karvan (1996)
- Anne Looby (1997)
- Rachael Blake (1998)
- Jill Forster (1999)
- Noni Hazlehurst / Anne Phelan (2000)
- Kerry Armstrong / Angie Milliken (2001)
- Juliet Stevenson (2002)
- Angie Milliken (2003)
- Bojana Novakovic (2004)
- Claudia Karvan (2005)
- Susie Porter (2006)
- Claudia Karvan (2007)
- Kat Stewart (2008)
- Susie Porter (2009)
- Catherine McClements (2010)
- Sarah Snook (2011)
- Leah Purcell (2012)
- Claudia Karvan (2013)
- Marta Dusseldorp (2014)
- Pamela Rabe (2015)
- Elizabeth Debicki (2016)
- Elisabeth Moss (2017)
- Kate Box (2018)
- Deborah Mailman (2019)
- Yvonne Strahovski (2020)
- Anna Torv (2021)
- Tuuli Narkle (2022)
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