Jacqueline McKenzie

Known for ActingBorn 1967-10-24 (age 58)Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jacqueline Susan McKenzie (born 24 October 1967) is an Australian actress. McKenzie made her film debut in the 1987 film Wordplay and on stage in Child Dancing for Griffin Theatre Company. She made a strong impression in Romper Stomper (1992), and over the next couple of years came to be regarded as one of Australia's most promising young actresses. She received Australian Film Institute Award nominations for her roles in Stark, This Won't Hurt a Bit (both 1993), The Battlers and Traps (both 1994) before winning two awards in 1995 for "Best Actress in a Television Drama" for Halifax f.p: "Lies of the Mind", and Best Actress in a Leading Role" for Angel Baby. With this success she ventured to the United States and secured a Green Card, as a "Person of Extraordinary Ability". She subsequently had acting roles in films such as Deep Blue Sea (1999) and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002). In 2004, she began playing the lead female role Diana Skouris in the science fiction television series The 4400, one of the year's biggest successes. The show ran for four seasons, ending in 2007. She also played a lead role in an episode of Two Twisted (2006), an Australian television program. McKenzie appeared on television again in 2006 playing Linda Landry in "Umney's Last Case", the third episode of Nightmares and Dreamscapes on TNT. She has recorded a collection of songs: "Shy Baby", "Boo Boo", "Find Me", "Summer", "Under The Elm" and "Ever". "Shy Baby" was used in the second season finale of The 4400, and will be included in the show's soundtrack released in April 2007. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 1996, a portrait of McKenzie by Garry Shead was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The prize is awarded for the "best portrait painting preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, Science or Politics". McKenzie became mother to a daughter in June 2009. From 7 February to 27 March 2011, she will appear in In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Theatre Company Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacqueline McKenzie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

On the Beach

Talk

All Her Fault

Love from Ground Zero

Hawaii Five-0

CSI: Miami

NCIS: Los Angeles

Freak Weather

My Life Is Murder

Without a Trace

The 4400

The Riddle of the Stinson

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King

Preservation

Mix Tape

Bloom

Beneath Hill 60

Malignant

The Battlers

This Won't Hurt a Bit

The Water Diviner

Halifax: Retribution

Romper Stomper

Pine Gap

Angel Baby

Force of Nature: The Dry 2

Mr. Reliable

Stark

Significant Others

Savage River

Don't Tell

Romper Stomper

Ruby's Choice

The Convert

Harmony

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Eisenstein

On the Beach

Opal Dream

Believe

Halifax f.p.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)

Deep Blue Sea

Kangaroo Palace

Mental

Poker Face

The Gateway