Robin McLeavy is an actress from Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and NIDA

National Institute of Dramatic Art

The National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national training institute for students of theatre, film, and television, based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington. It is supported by the federal Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. NIDA is located adjacent...

 graduate.

Career

Robin graduated from NIDA in 2004. Robin starred as Lola Stone in the critically acclaimed Australian horror The Loved Ones

The Loved Ones (film)

The Loved Ones is a 2009 Australian horror film written and directed by Sean Byrne and starring Xavier Samuel and Robin McLeavy.-Plot:After high schooler Brent Mitchell wraps his car around a tree, killing his father, he escapes into a grief-filled world of guilt...

, directed by Sean Byrne. The film screened at Toronto International Film Festival in 2009 and won the Audience Choice Award.

In 2009 Robin played the role of Stella Kowalski

Stella Kowalski

Stella Kowalski is one of the main characters in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. She is the younger sister of central character Blanche DuBois.-In the play:...

 opposite Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett

Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award...

 and Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton is an Australian film and television actor.-Early life:Edgerton was born in Blacktown, Sydney, to a homemaker mother and a solicitor/property developer father, Michael. His brother, Nash Edgerton, is a stuntman and filmmaker...

 in the Sydney Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire (play)

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3, 1947, and closed on December 17, 1949, in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was...

. The production was directed by screen legend Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...

 and toured to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. Robin received the American Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer.

Robin appeared in four encore seasons of Holding the Man

Holding the Man

Holding the Man is the best-selling memoir by the Australian writer, actor, and activist Timothy Conigrave. It was adapted for the stage by Tommy Murphy in 2006, and has become one of the most successful Australian stage productions in recent years.Holding the Man was published in February 1995 by...

, an award-winning play by Tommy Murphy.

She played Isabella in Benedict Andrew's production of Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was classified as comedy, but its mood defies those expectations. As a result and for a variety of reasons, some critics have labelled it as one of Shakespeare's problem plays...

 by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

 at the Belvoir Theatre, Sydney 5 -25 July,2010. http://www.belvoir.com.au/CustomContentRetrieve.aspx?ID=1087286 She also appeared as Honey in " Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" directed by Benedict Andrews for Belvoir Theatre Company in 2007, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards.

Filmography

• 48 Shades
  48 Shades
  48 Shades, based on Nick Earls' popular novel 48 Shades of Brown, is a 2006 Australian comedy by debut director Daniel Lapaine starring Richard Wilson, Emma Lung, Robin McLeavy and Victoria Thaine....
  
  (2006)
• The Loved Ones
  The Loved Ones (film)
  The Loved Ones is a 2009 Australian horror film written and directed by Sean Byrne and starring Xavier Samuel and Robin McLeavy.-Plot:After high schooler Brent Mitchell wraps his car around a tree, killing his father, he escapes into a grief-filled world of guilt...
  
  (2009)
• Hell on Wheels
  Hell on Wheels (TV series)
  Hell on Wheels is an American dramatic television series created and produced by Joe and Tony Gayton. Set in 1865, the series centers on the settlement that accompanied the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, referred to as "Hell on Wheels" by the company men, surveyors, support...
  
  (2011)

External links

• Robin McLeavy Online (fan page)