Annie Byron
Also Known As: Ann Byron
Biography: Annie Byron is an AFI Award-winning Australian film, stage, and television actress best known for Wolf Creek 2, Fran, Muriel's Wedding, and Doing Time for Patsy Cline. After graduating university, she enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Art along with Steve Bisley, Debra Lawrence, Robert Menzies, Peter Kingston, Judy Davis, and Mel Gibson. Byron was cast as Lou, the second wife of Harry Sullivan in the Australian television series The Sullivans the year after graduating from NIDA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Inverell, New South Wales, Australia
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The Postcard Bandit
Overview: The story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent postcards to authorities hot on his trail while on the run across the country.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-01
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Touch the Sun: Princess Kate
Overview: Kate McLelland's life is a normal one of a girl her age in the eastern suburbs, until her discovery that she is adopted. This is the story of her search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-03
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Wolf Creek 2
Overview: Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site's most infamous local, the last man any traveller to the region ever wants to meet—Mick Taylor. As the backpackers flee, Mick pursues them on an epic white knuckled rampage across hostile wasteland.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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Fran
Overview: Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-21
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Afraid to Dance
Overview: An out-of-luck youth gets a lift from a shoplifter whose car he had planned to steal. They become involved in crime and romance together.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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The Facts of Life Down Under
Overview: Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned of a planned jewel heist; Beverly Ann visits a beau from many years ago; Natalie is stranded in the outback; and Tootie meets a Yale student who pretends to be a young Aborigine.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-15
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No Worries
Overview: A family is forced off their farm due to drought, and move to Sydney.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-31
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Poetry for an Englishman
Overview: A young girl, living with her family in a lighthouse, is fascinated by her brother's aloofness and observes his relationship with an English sailor from a distance.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Slam
Overview: Ricky is a young Arab Australian whose peaceful suburban life is turned on its head when his sister, Ameena, disappears without trace. In a climate of distrust and xenophobia, she is soon suspected of having joined the ranks of ISIS in Syria. In a ‘post-facts’ world, Ricky no longer knows who to believe, his sense of what’s right or the 24 hour media cycle of spin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Muriel's Wedding
Overview: A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Doing Time for Patsy Cline
Overview: Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin. However, fate and his naivety find him hitchhiking with a psychotic drug thief named Boyd, and Boyd's mesmerising girlfriend, Patsy. The plot then splits into a series of parallels, flash forwards and flashbacks. One depicts Ralph’s imprisonment after being framed for drug trafficking. The other follows the dramatic ascent of his career to hype status and the pairing between the dynamic Patsy and himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-25
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In the Company of Actors
Overview: Within the world of theatre the rehearsal room is a sacred space -- the private domain where boundaries are pushed, risks taken, mistakes made, vulnerabilities exposed and, at its very best, magic created. It's not a place into which the public is often, if ever, invited. Until now; In The Company of Actors features an ensemble of Australia's finest actors, including Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, as they prepare to perform the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler, at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Opening night is just five weeks away and the pressure is on.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-10
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The View from Greenhaven
Overview: A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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Clowning Around
Overview: Follows a boy who realizes there is more to being a clown, than just clowning around.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-26
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The Distant Home
Overview: Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car.
Genres: Family Fantasy Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-06
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