Louise Siversen is an actress.

Siversen began acting as a child after her parents sent her to dance and drama classes to help her overcome her shyness. Siversen began to enjoy acting and went on to perform with St Martins Youth Theatre, appearing in many productions. Siversen studied law after leaving high school for a while, but decided to stick with acting after attending a careers day at university.

Siversen has also trained in jazz dance and ballet.

Career

Her TV credits include The Flying Doctors

The Flying Doctors

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia....

, BackBerner

BackBerner

BackBerner was an Australian political satire sketch comedy television series, broadcast on and produced by ABC TV with Crackerjack Productions. The program was hosted by stand up comic Peter Berner and noted Australian character actor Louise Siversen...

, MDA

MDA (TV series)

MDA is an Australian television series that aired between 2002 and 2005 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . It concerned the day-to-day operation of legal firm MDA, which specialised in medical defence.-Synopsis:...

 and All Saints

All Saints (TV series)

All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...

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But Siversen will always be best known for her portrayal of nasty Lou Kelly in the Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

 series Prisoner

Prisoner (TV series)

Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...

. Siversen started out as a recurring non-speaking extra while still in drama school. When the character of Lou Kelly was devised, Siversen auditioned, and got the part. Kelly quickly became one of the main characters of the series and had a run of about two years.

She also appeared in the 1989

1989 in film

-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...

 Australian horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 Houseboat Horror

Houseboat Horror

Houseboat Horror is an Australian slasher film released to video in 1989.-Plot:A film crew composed of media types and party animals from the city embark on a road trip to record music videos of a hard-living rock band at rural Lake Infinity....

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Personal life

Siversen is married to Theo, a Persian carpet importer she met in 1983. They live in Melbourne.

Siversen teaches drama at the Victorian College of Arts when she is not working in acting roles.

Siversen enjoys massages with 'happy endings', aromatherapy, kinesiology and is a qualified flower essence therapist.

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