Peta Sergeant

Career

Her other television credits include the television series All Saints, Winners & Losers, Last Man Standing, Jeopardy, and Canal Road. Film credits include George of the Jungle 2, Patrick and The Bet. She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of a woman on the run in Steve Rodgers' play Savage River for the Griffin Theatre Company. Sergeant received praise as "a stand out performance amid an excellent cast" in Sue Smith's Thrall.

She was cast as Nina Cruz in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of All About My Mother, an adaptation for the stage based on the film by Pedro Almodóvar, directed by Simon Phillips. In 2012, she starred in Iron Sky, as Vivian Wagner, a campaign adviser to a Sarah Palin-like president of the United States, who later becomes general on the US' interplanetary warship USS George W. Bush. In 2013, she starred in Patrick as Nurse William. In 2014, she played the Jabberwocky in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Francesca Guerrera in The Originals. In the 2015 telemovie House of Hancock, Sergeant portrayed Rose Porteous.

In 2010 she was awarded a Mike Walsh Fellowships Special Grant.

Family

Peta Sergeant was born on Penang Island in Malaysia and moved to Australia at an early age. Her Irish-Australian father was raised on a farm in South Australia and joined the RAAF as a young man. He was as an RAAF officer stationed in Butterworth when he met Sergeant's mother.

She has been married to actor Rohan Nichol since 2008.