Full Name Louise Crawford Occupation Actor | Name Louise Crawford Role Film actress | |
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Movies and TV shows Breakers, John Doe: Vigilante, Echo Point, Love In the First Degree | ||
Louise Crawford is an Australian film and television actress who has appeared in many Australian soaps and dramas, including a role as Sgt. Karen Hatzic in primetime drama series City Homicide.Over the last few years, she has become an activist for climate change action and recently trained with Al Gore in The Climate Reality Project. She was the unsuccessful Labor candidate for the safe Liberal seat of Brighton for the 2014 Victorian state election.
Career
First came to notice as "Shelley" Radcliffe in the 1995 Network Ten soap opera Echo Point. In 1996, she temporarily stood in for actress Tempany Deckert in the role of Selina Roberts on Home and Away, while Deckert recovered from illness. In 1998-99, Crawford appeared in Breakers, a short-lived soap opera series which aired on Network Ten, as Lucy Hill. She also appeared on Neighbours as Abby Stafford in 2007 and as Detective Ellen Crabb in 2013, reprising the role again in 2016.
She also appeared in Forget The Rules, a cross-platform "dramedy" series which appeared on Foxtel's Channel V, but could also be watched on the Internet and on mobile phones. and hosted the "reality" series Scream Test. Additionally, she appeared as a regular panellist on Beauty and the Beast, and has dabbled as a scriptwriter, writing episodes of Breakers and Home and Away.