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Jun 9, 2022 · From a poor Indigenous girl in regional Queensland, actor, writer and director Leah Purcell is now at the top of her game. She has starred in some of Australia’s most renowned films and written and directed some of our best television.
Nov 25, 2022 · View all comments. The acclaimed Indigenous actor/writer/director is nominated for eight AACTA awards for her debut feature film that reimagines a classic Australian story through a black, female ...
May 13, 2022 · Australian indigenous director, writer, and actress Leah Purcell continues her journey adapting Henry Lawson’s classic short story The Drover’s Wife (1892), first for the stage, then as a...
Jun 12, 2022 · Leah Purcell weaves her Indigenous Songlines into new film The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson - ABC News. Australian Story. / By Susan Chenery and Vanessa Gorman. Posted Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 12:38pm, updated Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 8:05pm. Actor, writer, producer and director Leah Purcell. (ABC: Australian Story/Jack Fisher)
Aug 24, 2022 · Inspired by a short story by Australian writer Henry Lawson that she heard as a child, writer, director, and star Leah Purcell has turned a classic colonial tale into a gripping tale of feminist strength. Journalist Katherine Tulich talks with Purcell in this video report. Advertisement.
Mar 26, 2020 · In the autobiographical work Box the Pony, we learned she was a one-time Miss Murgon from up rural Queensland way, and about the strong, influential women in her life. Leah Purcell, 46, likens...
Jun 12, 2022 · Australian Story. Posted Sun 12 Jun 2022 at 10:00am, updated Wed 8 Jun 2022 at 8:07pm. Watch. 1m 45s. From dirt poor beginnings, actor, writer and director Leah Purcell is now at the top of her game, weaving her family’s complicated history and her own troubled past into a powerful reimagining of a classic Australian tale ( News Video)
