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Dec 11, 2022 · #LeahPurcell won the AACTA Award for Best #Lead #Actress in #Film for her performance as Molly Johnson in #TheDroversWife, The Legend of Molly Johnson, presented by Tom Burlinson at the 2022...
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Leah Purcell AM - recipient of the Australia Council Fellowship for Literature - YouTube. Creative Australia. 812 subscribers. 100 views 4 months ago. First Nations Arts and Culture Awards...
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Dec 13, 2022 · Rove McManus Chats to Leah Purcell at the 2022 AACTA Awards after she won the #aactaawards for Best Lead Actress in Film
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Nov 12, 2021 · Purcell made history at the ASPA Awards by becoming the first Australian to win the Grand Jury Prize for The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson, a First Nations revisionist history of the frontier story.
- 'My Mother Never Had A Voice'
- The Pain of Being The 'Secret Family'
- Bain and Leah, A Love Story 'Gift' from The Ancestors
- Leah Flips Pioneering Tale on Its Head
Leah might have gotten out of Murgon, but she never left her people. A Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka woman, she is the storyteller, the holder and keeper of the stories. For 30 years now she has been telling the story of her family, of her mother and grandmother. "I'm a truth-teller. All I can share is the truth in my family's stories, because that's al...
Leah was the youngest of Florence's seven children. Born when Florence was 42 it was just her and her mother. "I was her shoulder to cry on. I had a lot of responsibility as a child. My job was to protect her and look after her." Her father was a white man, the local butcher and boxing trainer, who lived with his white wife and three children on th...
Leah started in community theatre in Brisbane in the early '90s. Her cousin set her up on a blind date with Bain Stewart and 30 years later they are still going strong. Bain was a champion kickboxer who ran a martial arts gym. Like Leah, his mother was Aboriginal, his father white. "He knew I was interested in acting and he really encouraged me wit...
Leah was about to semi-retire from acting to concentrate on her writing when she was offered one of the three leads in Wentworth. "And I said, 'Just let me talk to the actor in me'. And, you know, I was screaming with joy. I loved Wentworth because we women had kickass, bad-ass, boss-bitch moments." In 2014, she was awarded the Balnaves Foundation ...
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May 5, 2022 · The international jury for the 14th Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards have awarded Purcell for her efforts in writing, directing, producing and starring in the feature film 'The Drover’s Wife: the Legend of Molly Johnson'.
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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.
