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Tracy Mann is an Australian actress and voice artist. After appearing in a number of television series, she won an Australian Film Institute award in 1980 for the film Hard Knocks . She has also won awards for her work in the mini-series Sword of Honour and 2005 comedy film Hating Alison Ashley.
Early life and education
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Tracy Mann first expressed interest in becoming an actress at the age of four.
She undertook drama classes as a child, then as a teenager with the Saturday Company, a branch of the State Theatre Company of South Australia (STCSA). Fresh from high school in 1973, she performed in Winnie the Pooh for Adelaide Festival Theatre and joined Actors Equity of Australia.
She subsequently studied in London under Phillipe Gaulier in the 1990s.
Career
= Television
=Mann got her first big break playing Tina Harris in 1970s soap opera The Box.
Mann is possibly best remembered to audiences for playing deaf biker's moll Georgie Baxter in Prisoner. She also played the lead role of guitarist / singer Carol Howard in the 1984 ABC-TV series Sweet and Sour, and the lead role in police drama Skirts (1990).
Other TV appearances include The Sullivans, The Young Doctors, Arcade, Holiday Island, Prisoner, A Country Practice, Cowra Breakout, GP, Sword of Honour, Cyclone Tracy, The Flying Doctors, Sweet and Sour, Boys from the Bush, Janus, All Saints, The Oracle, Ash Wednesday, Bellbird.
She made one-off guest appearances in shows such as Glenview High, Bluey, Matlock Police, Cop Shop, Kingswood Country Skyways, Good Guys Bad Guys, Water Rats, and Blue Heelers.
Mann undertook voiceover work as Holophone in an episode of children's science fiction series Silversun, and Susie Sponge on the second season of popular animated series The Toothbrush Family. Her other voice acting roles include animated series Classic Tales, Kangaroo Creek Gang and Tracey McBean (both produced by Southern Star Entertainment).
In 2024, Mann was announced for the Top End Wedding sequel series Top End Bub, where she reprised her role from the film for the television series.
= Film
=Mann's first starring role on the big screen was low budget drama Hard Knocks; she won an AFI award for Best Actress in a Leading Role as a young ex-prisoner being hassled by the police.
She played sister to the main character in New Zealand film The Scarecrow (aka Klynham Summer), which was invited to play at the Cannes Film Festival. Mann has also appeared in the Yahoo Serious movie Reckless Kelly, Hating Alison Ashley, and Any Questions for Ben?.
Filmography
= Film
== Television
== Television (as self)
=Radio
Theatre
Awards & nominations
Personal life
Tracy Mann has been married to director Scott Hartford-Davis, since March 6, 2022. She is stepmother to Sebastian, Barnaby, Allegra and India. A breast cancer survivor, Mann underwent a double mastectomy. She is a student of yoga. She claims credit for naming the Divinyls.
Mann has related her conversion to Buddhism:
"I was sort of unconsciously on a bit of a path... I was doing a show called 'Janus'... I just reached a point that my spirit, my consciousness, had said, "Tracy, enough, Now you have to get it... And I had five weeks off of filming 'Janus' and went to Nepal... to go to a monastery to study Buddhism."
References
External links
Tracy Mann at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- Daftar penyanyi pop wanita
- Rio (film)
- Al Pacino
- Rio 2
- Crashing Hollywood (film 1938)
- Manusia
- Hairspray (film 2007)
- Evolusi manusia
- Kristen Stewart
- Tracy Mann
- Sweet and Sour (1984 TV series)
- Tracy (name)
- Sword of Honour (miniseries)
- Cyclone Tracy
- Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter
- Mann (surname)
- Silversun
- Wonderland (Australian TV series)
- Cyclone Tracy (miniseries)
