Pamela Rabe

Pamela Rabe Biography

Pamela Rabe (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian / Australian stage, television and film actor and theatre director. A graduate from the Playhouse Acting School, in Vancouver, Pamela Rabe is one of Australia's most highly regarded and awarded actors. She is best known for her appearances in the films Cosi, Sirens and Paradise Road. She was born in Ontario, Canada, though she has long resided and worked in Australia.

Career

Rabe is a prolific contributor to theatrical life in her adopted country. Some of her high-profile roles include Nora Boyle in Patrick White's The Season At Sarsaparilla, for which she won a Green Room Award for Best Actress, and Richard III in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The War Of The Roses, which also starred Cate Blanchett as Richard II.

Rabe also starred with Miranda Otto in the 1997 film adaptation of Elizabeth Jolley's novel The Well, for which she received an AFI Award for Best Actress.

In 2005 she performed a challenging, Croatian play called Woman-Bomb.

In 2010 she starred in the Melbourne stage production of David Mamet's play Boston Marriage.

Ms Rabe served on the board of the Australian Film Institute from 1999-2002 and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of NIDA.

Personale Life

Rabe's husband, theatre director Roger Hodgman.

Filmography

Films

Against the Innocent (1989) .... American woman
Sirens (1993) .... Rose Lindsay
Vacant Possession (1995) .... Tessa
Cosi (1996) .... Ruth
Lust and Revenge (1996) .... Obnoxious Woman
Paradise Road (1997) .... Mrs. Tippler
The Well (1997) .... Hester
The Boy Who Feeds Cats (2004) .... Narrator
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (Upcoming film)

TV

A Single Life (1986) .... Margaret Bennett
Nancy Wake (1987) .... Madeleine
A Country Practice (1990) .... Marnie Rose
The Leaving of Liverpool (1992) .... Mrs. Lang
Seven Deadly Sins (1993) .... Greed
Ocean Girl (1995) .... Commander Byrne
The Bite (1996) .... Samira Nazib
Mercury (1996) .... Clare Bannister
Frontier (1997) .... Rosa Campbell Praed
Stingers (2001) .... Eve Reisner
The Secret Life of Us (2003) .... Luciana
CrashBurn (2003) .... Andy
Holly's Heroes (2005) .... Mrs. Rocacelli
Wentworth Correction Centre (2013) Joan Ferguson