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THEATRE

"For a long time we've been asking the question of whether the theatre is dead but the virus has led to an explosion of our sense of what's valuable because we have been left so isolated. We need the sense of dialogue the theatre gives. I think it's as simple as that. Theatre gives us something the screen can't. It gives us something that film can't get, that Netflix can't get, the sounding board between the writer and the art. There's a sense of immersion that cannot be found anywhere and a sense of immediacy in the theatre. We're all in the dark and we're all around the fire. Theatre is the original storytelling." - Sigrid Thornton, actor

THE AGE/SMH 2020​





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"Sigrid Thornton is Australian entertainment royalty. As Golde, she is both the supporting wife but knows how far to allow her old-fashioned husband to go before she needs to give him a reality check." - Man In Chair 2016

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  • THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT / STC / Roslyn Packer Theatre / 2022 Sydney (Emily)
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  • FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Princess Theatre 2015 Melbourne / Capitol Theatre Sydney 2016 (Golde)
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  • DIARY OF A NOBODY Stephen Beckett Productions Princess Theatre 2015 (Lead)
 
  • THE EFFECT Melbourne Theatre Company 2014 (Lead)
 
  • A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Black Swan State Theatre Company (Blanche Dubois) 2014
 
  • A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Opera Australia (Desiree) 2009  Lead
 
  • TALKING HEADS National Tour with Brenda Blethyn 2007 Lead
 
  • THE BLUE ROOM ICA National Tour 2002 Lead
 
  • BETRAYAL Melbourne Theatre Company 2001  Lead

The Effect, Melbourne Theatre Company

BYRON BACHE THEATRE CRITIC HERALD SUN  AUGUST 22, 2014 
Sigrid Thornton shines in “The Effect”

MEDITATIONS on the nature of love by hot young British playwrights seem to be the high water mark at the Melbourne Theatre Company. The Effect rounds out a triptych that includes the 2013 mounting of Nick Payne’s Constellations and this year’s production of Cock by Mike Bartlett.

All three of these knotty, political examinations of the heart were directed by Leticia Caceres, who might just be the smartest director on the MTC’s books right now.Writer Lucy Prebble’s play places us squarely in the middle of a drug trial. Connie (Zahra Newman) and Tristan (Nathaniel Dean) have signed up for a four-week, live-in course of a new anti-depressant. As the weeks pass and their dosage increases, the pair fall for each other, hard.

Is it a chemically induced dopamine spike, or is it love? Is there even a difference? And what if one of them is in the control group, taking a placebo? The trial is overseen by psychiatrist Dr Lorna James (Sigrid Thornton), who insists anti-depressants do nothing. “We’re going to look back at this chemical imbalance shit like it’s the four humours all over again,” she says to Toby (William McInnes), an old flame who’s traded psychiatric research for a plum gig as the drug company’s TED-talk-ready public face.

Caceres’s staging has an incredible tenderness about it. The material could easily invite histrionics, but they never appear. There’s some shaky pacing in the opening, but things are quickly righted. Prebble’s script could have been a two-hour-long dig at the pharmaceutical industry, but it’s subtle, controlled and as heart-rending as it is funny. Andrew Bailey’s set, a maze of translucent walls that fly in and out, is one part in the perfect little fugue of Kate Davis’s costumes, Chris More’s projection and Damien Cooper’s lighting, all sticking to the same limited palette before blowing it out in the final scenes. And a pulsing, moody sound design by The Sweats ties it all together.

The performances are spellbinding. Newman and Dean have a fascinating, caveat-laden chemistry as the medicated lovers, and Caceres has fashioned McInnes’s occasional tendency towards woodenness into the facade surrounding something far more layered.

But it’s Sigrid Thornton who’s the star here, and rightfully so. Her Lorna is a biting, wound-up, droll creation, and her reluctant unravelling is brilliant. The Effect is that rare beast: a rich, challenging play that’s as moving as it is intelligent. See it. Now.

THE EFFECT Melbourne Theatre Company
Rating: ★★★★

The Blue Room

Sigrid made her much-anticipated second professional theatre appearance in the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) / ICA production of The Blue Room in Melbourne in January 2003. After months of hype and speculation about the ‘controversial’ nude scenes, theatre critics and theatre goers quickly forgot the brief flashes of flesh and were entranced by Sigrid’s sensational performance opposite Marcus Graham.

One of the most complex and difficult plays for an actor to perform, The Blue Room required Sigrid to play five completely different characters over 10 scenes in a journey of exploration through the complexities of sexual relationships. With multiple accents to master and the challenge of lightening fast wardrobe changes, critics were unanimous in their praise for her flawless performance.  The MTC was similarly impressed when the play sold out prior to opening night and additional seats in the extended season were quickly snatched up by eager theatre goers. In fact, The Blue Room broke all previous sales records for a non-musical performed by the MTC, not just once, but several times in the days following the announcement of an extended season.

A Streetcar Named Desire
Black Swan Theatre Company

Ever since the play opened on Broadway in 1947, directors can't resist restaging the story of love, lust, passion and power set in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Much-loved Australian actress Sigrid Thornton plays the lead role of Blanche DuBois, an aging Southern Belle who has come to live with her sister Stella and Stella's husband Stanley after losing her family's fortune. Kate Cherry is the director of the play, as well as the Artistic Director of the Black Swan State Theatre Company. Her father also directed Australia's first staging of A Streetcar Named Desire.

TELEVISION MOW's, SERIES, PILOTS & DOCUMENTARIES


  • AMAZING GRACE / Nine Network / 2021 
  • SEACHANGE REBOOTED / Nine Network / Lead / 2020
  • WENTWORTH / Foxtel Soho  / Sonia Stevens /2016
  • THE CODE / ABC Television 2016
  • UNDERBELLY 3 Screentime / Nine Network 2009 Guest lead
  • WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Aretemis Films / SBS Network 2009 Herself 
  • WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU? Beyond / Nine Network 2006- 7 Host
  • UMNEY'S LAST CASE Coote Hayes / Turner Network 2005 Cameo
  • LITTLE OBERON Christie Films / Nine Network 2005 Lead
  • MDA series 3 Screentime / ABC 2005 Guest Lead
  • SEA CHANGE series 1, 2 & 3 Artist Services / ABC 1997-2000 Lead
  • WHIPPING BOY JNP 1996 Lead GP Roadshow Coote & Carroll(ABC) 1994 Guest role
  • TRAPPED IN SPACE  Village Roadshow Pictures1993 1993 Lead
  • FEDS Crawford Productions 1993 Lead
  • CHILDREN AT THE EDGE Pilgrim/Worldvision 1993 Presenter
  • PARADISE (pilot & 3 seasons) Lorimar Productions CBS 1988-92 Lead run
  • THE COMEDY COMPANY Network TEN 1987 Guest role
  • COP SHOP Crawford Productions 1981 Guest role
  • BELLAMY Grundy Productions 1981 Guest role
  • SKYWAYS Crawford Productions 1980 Guest role
  • COP SHOP Crawford Productions 1980 Guest role
  • PRISONER Grundy Productions 1979 Guest role
  • YOUNG DOCTORS Grundy Productions 1979 Guest role
  • COP SHOP Crawford Productions 1979 Guest role
  • CHOPPER SQUAD Grundy Productions 1978 Guest role
  • FATHER, DEAR FATHER McCabe Paradine 1978 Lead Run
  • TRUCKIES A.B.C. T.V 1977 Guest role
  • FATHER, DEAR FATHER McCabe Paradine 1977 Lead Run
  • BELLBIRD A.B.C. T.V. 1977 Guest role
  • YOUNG RAMSAY Crawford Productions 1977 Guest role
  • WATERLOO ST A.B.C. T.V 1977 Guest role
  • HOTEL STORY Crawford Productions 1976 Guest role
  • CERTAIN WOMEN A.B.C. T.V. 1976 Guest role
  • CASE FOR THE DEFENCE Grundy Productions 1976 Guest role
  • HOMICIDE Crawford Productions 1975 Guest role
  • DIVISION FOUR Crawford Productions 1975 Guest role

FILM

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  • BFFS THE MOVIE 2014 DIRECTOR: Andrew Putschoegl 
  • FACE TO FACE 2011 DIRECTOR: Michael Rymer
  • THE TELEGRAM MAN 2010 DIRECTOR: James F Khehtie
  • MITTENS  2003 DIRECTOR: Emma Freeman
  • INSPECTOR GADGET 2 - 2003  DIRECTOR: Alex Zamm
  • THE PACT 2002  DIRECTOR: Strath Hamilton
  • LOVE IN AMBUSH 1996 DIRECTOR: Carl Shultz
  • OVER THE HILL 1991 DIRECTOR: George Miller
  • THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER II 1987 DIRECTOR: Geoff Burrowes
  • THE LIGHT HORSEMEN 1986 DIRECTOR: Simon Wincer
  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS THE UNTOLD STORY  1986 DIRECTOR: Tim Burstall
  • SLATE WYN AND ME 1986 DIRECTOR: Don McLennan
  • NEIL LYNNE 1984 DIRECTOR: David Baker
  • STREET HERO 1983 DIRECTOR: Michael Pattinson
  • THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER 1981 DIRECTOR: George Miller
  • DUET FOR FOUR 1981 DIRECTOR: Tim Burstall
  • SNAPSHOT 1978 DIRECTOR: Simon Wincer
  • THE GETTING OF WISDOM 1977 DIRECTOR: Bruce Beresford
  • F.J. HOLDEN 1976 DIRECTOR: Michael Thornhill


TELEVISION MINISERIES

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Sigrid Thornton 1915
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  • PETER ALLEN : NOT THE BOY NEXT DOOR - Judy Garland 
2015 DIRECTOR Shawn Seet
  • GREAT EXPECTATIONS THE UNTOLD STORY  1986 
DIRECTOR: Tim Burstall
  • THE FAR COUNTRY 1985 DIRECTOR: George Miller
  • THE BOY IN THE BUSH 1983 DIRECTOR: Rob Stewart
  • ALL THE RIVERS RUN 1981 DIRECTOR: George Miller Pino Amenta 
  • THE LAST OUTLAW 1981 DIRECTOR: George Miller Kevin Dobson  
  • 1915 DIRECTOR: Di Drew Chris Thomson 
  • I CAN JUMP PUDDLES 1980  DIRECTOR: Kevin Dobson
  • OUTBREAK OF LOVE 1980 DIRECTOR: Oscar Whitbread
  • LAWSON'S MATES 1979 DIRECTOR: Oscar Whitbread



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OFFICIAL TITLES & HONORARY POSITIONS

AWARDS, NOMINATIONS & PRESENTER ROLES

  • 2007 Appointed to the Malthouse Theatre Board
  • 2003 Appointed as an Ambassador for World Vision International
  • 2003 Appointed as an Ambassador for Melbourne Zoo
  • 2002 Appointed as Ambassador for the National Gallery of Victoria
  • 2002 Appointed to the board of Film Victoria
  • 2001 Appointed patron of The Feelix Foundation, Royal Institute of the Blind’s Braille reading program
  • 2000 Appointed to Chair a taskforce, appointed by the Bracks government to look into reinforcing the Victorian Film Industry.
  • 1996-9 Re elected to the board of the Australian Film Institute
  • 1995-8 Elected to the Commercial Television Production Fund
  • 1994 Keynote speaker at ARTS ANGELS launch for the Vic. Arts center
  • 1993-6 Elected to the board of the Australian Film Institute
  • 1993 No. 1 ticket holder for the North Melbourne Football club
  • 1993-9 Appointed Patron of Women in Film (Victoria)
  • 1990 Voted Australia's Most Beautiful Eyes by Womans Day
  • 1989 Voted Australia's Most Beautiful Face by Womans Day readers
  • 1988 Representative on official Australian film delegation to China
  • 1987 Keynote personality to promote Australian Child Safety Campaign
  • 1987 Appointed Patron of Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation
  • 1987 Ambassador to Australia's Expo '88
  • 1987 Official Sponsor of World Vision 40 Day Famine
  • 1986-89 Appointed Board member of Film Victoria
  • 1984 Keynote address for Australian Women of the Year luncheon

  • 2008  IF Awards  SBS Network, Presenter
  • 2007 Helpman Awards, Presenter
  • 2006 IF Awards  SBS Network, Presenter
  • 2005 IF Awards  SBS Network, Presenter
  • 2005 Australian Film Awards  Best actress nomination- Television for Nine Network Telemovie, Little Oberon
  • 2004 IF Awards  SBS Network, Presenter 
  • 2004 Mo Award for best actress in a play for The Blue Room
  • 2003 Centenary Medal for Acting and Services to the Media
  • 2003 IF Awards  SBS Network, Presenter
  • 2003 Helpman Awards Nominated Best Actress in a play for The Blue Room.
  • 2001 Australian Film Awards Co Host
  • 2000 Herald Sun Home Entertainment Guide Voted as the Best Australian Female Actor.
  • 2000 Logie Awards Most outstanding actress in a series. "Seachange".
  • 1999 Peoples Choice Awards Favourite Actress and Favourite TV star awards with Seachange  & also received the Favourite Television drama award
  • 1999 Cinema Owners Association of Australia COOEE Award – Outstanding contribution to Australian Film Entertainment
  • 1999 Australian Caption Centre Nominated Personality of the year
  • 1998 Moet & Chandon Contemporary Art Award at the National Gallery Keynote speech and award presenter
  • 1998 George Fairfax Inaugural Victorian College of the Arts Memorial Scholarship Speaker
  • 1998 Australian Film Awards Presenter best TV Actress
  • 1997 Australian Stock Exchange (Sydney) Co host
  • 1996 Australian Film Awards Co host
  • 1995 Australian Film Awards Presenter best TV Production
  • 1994 Peoples Choice Awards Presenter with Ernie Dingo of best Australian Comedy
  • 1994 Australian Film Awards Presenter Best Director Award, nominated for best TV actress for GP
  • 1994 Australian Fashion Awards Co Compeer
  • 1994 Australian Writers Guild Awards Presented best TV script
  • 1993 Australian Film Awards Co-Presenter of the Best Australian Film Award with the Prime Minister
  • 1993 M.C. for the 90th International Parliamentary Conference Gala Concert - Canberra, Australia
  • 1993 Australian Film Awards Appointed to the awards committee and subsequently elected to the board
  • 1989 Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Centre (Oklahoma, USA) Best T.V. contribution to Western Heritage for "Paradise"
  • 1987 Australian Film Awards Co-presenter of Best Director Award with Sam Neill
  • 1984 Logie Awards Best Leading Actress in a Mini Series,"All the Rivers Run"
  • 1984 Australian Film Awards Presented Best Supporting Actor Award
  • 1983 Australian Film Awards Co-Presenter of the Best Australian Film Award with the Prime Minister
  • 1979 Logie Awards Nomination for Best Actress in a Mini Series,"1915"
  • 1979 Australian Film Awards Nomination for Best Actress in a Feature Film"Snapshot"
  • 1975 Sammy Award Best Television Juvenile Performance,"Homicide"
  • 1974 Logie Awards Best Episode in a Television Series,"Division Four" "Little Raver"

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