She is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company where she has played roles such as Lady Anne in Richard III alongside Antony Sher, and Hermione and Perdita in The Winter's Tale. She is also an accomplished stage actress. She also appeared in The Girl in the Cafe, alongside Bill Nighy, Kelly Macdonald and Anton Lesser. Her UK TV credits include: Minder, Inspector Morse, Kavanagh QC, The Cazalets, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Spooks, Trial and Retribution, New Street Law, Poirot,The Ice House, Lost for Words and New Tricks. She moved to the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. After graduation she appeared in TV series such as The Box, Bellbird, The Sullivans, Prisoner and Learned Friends. She trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Sydney. She began her career in Australia, initially in Brisbane at Twelfth Night Theatre and Brisbane Arts Theatre. Piennar in the Clint Eastwood film Invictus. In 2008/09 she played opposite David Tennant and Patrick Stewart as Gertrude, in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet which was subesquently adapted for BBC television and aired in late 2009.ĭownie played the title character in Euripedes' Helen at Shakespeare's Globe Theater in 2009.
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