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Claudia Karvan Claudia Karvan i(A133288 works by)
Born: Established: 1972 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Actor, producer.

Claudia Karvan began her screen acting career in the early 1980s, and in 1987 appeared in both Phillip Noyce's Echoes of Paradise and in Gillian Armstrong's High Tide. In 1990 she co-starred in The Big Steal, and three years later Karvan won an Australian Film Critic's Circle award for Best Actress for her role in The Heartbreak Kid. Her career since then includes the feature films Flynn (1992), Dating the Enemy (1996), Paperback Hero (1999), Footy Legends (2006) and Daybreakers (2010).

Karvan's television career has seen her involved in such series as The Secret Life of Us (2001-05) and Love My Way (2004-07). She was also a producer and writer on Love My Way.

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Personal Awards

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Matrescence ( dir. Leticia Cáceres ) Australia : Roadshow Rough Diamond , 2021 24305301 2021 single work film/TV
2022 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
form y separately published work icon Books That Made Us ( dir. Sally Aitken ) 2021 Australia : ABC Television Blackfella Films , 2021 23570299 2021 series - publisher film/TV
2022 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Documentary or Factual Program
form y separately published work icon Spirited ( dir. Jonathan Teplitzky et. al. )agent Sydney Australia : Southern Star Entertainment Channel W , 2010- Z1719410 2010- series - publisher film/TV humour fantasy

'Spirited is a romantic look at life and love after death with a rock 'n' roll twist. From the producers of Love My Way, Spirited is a blackly funny exploration of love, death and life seen through the lives of a group of people who are extreme, complicated and unique. The eight episode, escapist and romantic drama series will take richly drawn characters through situations and storylines that are anything but predictable. This is a show with a lightness of touch and yet it also encompasses the absurdity of modern dentistry, explores the curious world of parenting, celebrates the punk aesthetic and depicts a unique vision of the spirit world' (Spirited website).

2011 nominated Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards — Best Television Drama Series For Season Two.
2010 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards — Best Television Drama Series For Season One.
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