Alice Garner

Alice Garner (born 1969) is an Australian actress, musician and historian.

She is the daughter of Australian writer Helen Garner and writer and actor Bill Garner. She has a daughter.

Acting life and career

Garner's acting career began as a child in the 1982 film "Monkey Grip" adapted from her mother's 1977 novel of the same name. She was nominated for an AFI Award for her role. She starred in "Love And Other Catastrophes" in 1996, winning the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for best supporting actress, and in the ABC TV series "SeaChange".

In September 2001 she and Kate Atkinson (with whom she had worked on "SeaChange") founded Actors for Refugees, to improve community attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers.

She is an occasional Brains Trust member on ABC-TV's "The Einstein Factor".

Academic life and career

Garner speaks French fluently and in 2001 gained a Ph.D. in French history from the University of Melbourne for her study of representations of sea and shore in south-western France.

Presently Garner is an honorary history research fellow at the University of Melbourne and is researching the history of hitchhiking.

Music life

She plays cello in Euphonia and the Xylouris Ensemble. The Xylouris Ensemble performs contemporary, original and traditional Cretan music. [ [http://www.mook-e.com/bio/garnera.htm Alice Garner Biography] ]

Awards

* 1982 - nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, for "Monkey Grip"cite web |title= Alice Garner Filmography |publisher= IMDb |url= http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307681/awards |accessdate= 2007-07-25]
* 1996 - nominated for the Australian Film Institute Awards, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for "Love and Other Catastrophes" ]
* 1997 - won Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor - Female, for "Love and Other Catastrophes" ]
* 2002 - won the Screen Music Awards, Australia for Best Soundtrack Album, for "One Night the Moon" shared with Mairead Hannan, Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody, John Romeril, Deirdre Hannan ]
* 2005 - shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's History Awards General History Prize for "A Shifting Shore: locals, outsiders and the transformation of a French fishing town, 1823-2000"

Acting Roles

* "Monkey Grip", 1982, AFI Award nominee
* "Lover Boy", 1988
* "The Nostradamus Kid", 1993
* "Love and Other Catastrophes", 1996
* "SeaChange", 1998
* "Strange Planet", 1999
* "Jindabyne", 2006

Bibliography

* "A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, And The Transformation Of A French Fishing Town, 1823-2000", Cornell University Press, published 31 January 2005, ISBN 0-8014-4282-6.
* "The Student Chronicles", Melbourne University Publishing, 2006

External links

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*cite web |title= The good daughter by Susan Wyndham |publisher= Sydney Morning Herald August 19, 2006 |url= http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/the-good-daughter/2006/08/17/1155407946209.html |accessed= 2007-07-25

Notes

References

* [http://www.actorsforrefugees.org.au Actors for Refugees web site]
* [http://www.mook-e.com/bio/garnera.htm Alice Garner Biography]
* [http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/articleid_2705.html University of Melbourne media release 31 August 2005 on Garner's appointment]