Name Genevieve Lemon | Role Singer | |
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Nominations AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress, AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress Movies and TV shows Sweetie, The Piano, Top of the Lake, Soft Fruit, Suburban Mayhem Similar Jane Campion, Gerard Lee, Paul Goldman, Samantha Lang, Alice Bell | ||
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Genevieve Lemon is an Australian singer and actress who has appeared in a number of soap operas. Her best known roles are as Zelda Baker in The Young Doctors, Marlene "Rabbit" Warren in Prisoner and Brenda Riley in Neighbours. She showed her comedic and singing talents in the televised revue show Three Men and a Baby Grand.
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- Genevieve lemon blue sky mine
- Wiley reed with genevieve lemon and dennis williams live at 320 change is gonna come
- Early life
- Films and music
- Theatre
- Awards
- References
Wiley reed with genevieve lemon and dennis williams live at 320 change is gonna come
Early life
Lemon began her acting with the Leichhardt-based amateur theatre company, The Rocks Players in inner city Sydney. Her professional career began on TV in 1982 with a minor role in Sons and Daughters, followed shortly after with a larger role as Nurse Zelda Baker in The Young Doctors.
Films and music
Lemon has also appeared in a number of films directed by Jane Campion – Sweetie, The Piano and Holy Smoke!. She also appeared as Bunny, in Campion's miniseries Top of the Lake.
Her first CD, with her band, is called Angels in the City. It is a live recording of a concert she performed in the Studio at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Singing around the House series.
Theatre
Lemon has worked extensively for a number of major state theatre companies in Australia. She played in the stage production Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – the Musical as Shirley, the barmaid and owner of the Broken Hill Hotel.
Genevieve Lemon is currently on stage at London's Victoria Palace Theatre, portraying Mrs Wilkinson in Billy Elliot the Musical, a role she performed firstly in Sydney then Melbourne.
Awards
On 21 January 2008 she won Best Actress in a Musical award at the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards. Lemon won a 2008 Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical for her role in Billy Elliot the Musical.
Awards
1985 Penguin Certificate of Commendation for Prisoner
2007 Sydney Theatre Award for Billy Elliot
2008 Helpmann Award for Billy Elliot
2009 Green Room Award for Billy Elliot