Alice Garner

Alice Garner (born 1969) is an Australian actress, musician and historian. She is the daughter of Australian writer Helen Garner and writer and actor Bill Garner. Garner's acting career began as a child in the 1982 film Monkey Grip adapted from her mother's 1977 novel of the same name. She was nominated for an AFI Award for her role. She starred in Love And Other Catastrophes in 1996, winning the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for best supporting actress, and in the ABC TV series SeaChange. Garner speaks French fluently and in 2001 gained a Ph.D. in French history from the University of Melbourne for her study of representations of sea and shore in south-western France. In September 2001 she and Kate Atkinson (with whom she had worked on SeaChange) founded Actors for Refugees, to improve community attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers. Presently Garner is an honorary history research fellow at the University of Melbourne and has been commissioned by Melbourne University Press to write a book about student life. She plays cello in Euphonia and the Xylouris Ensemble.

Awards

• 1982 - nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, for Monkey Grip^[1]
• 1996 - nominated for the Australian Film Institute Awards, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Love and Other Catastrophes^[1]
• 1997 - won Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor - Female, for Love and Other Catastrophes^[1]
• 2002 - won the Screen Music Awards, Australia for Best Soundtrack Album, for One Night the Moon shared with Mairead Hannan, Paul Kelly, Kev Carmody, John Romeril, Deirdre Hannan^[1]
• 2005 - shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's History Awards General History Prize for A Shifting Shore: locals, outsiders and the transformation of a French fishing town, 1823-2000

Acting Roles

• Monkey Grip, 1982, AFI Award nominee
• Lover Boy, 1988
• The Nostradamus Kid, 1993
• Love and Other Catastrophes, 1996
• SeaChange, 1998
• Strange Planet, 1999
• Jindabyne, 2006

Bibliography

• A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, And The Transformation Of A French Fishing Town, 1823-2000, Cornell University Press, published 31 January 2005, ISBN 0-8014-4282-6.
• The Student Chronicles, Melbourne University Publishing, 2006

Notes

References

• Actors for Refugees web site [1].
• University of Melbourne media release 31 August 2005 on Garner's appointment there [2].

External links

• Alice Garner at the Internet Movie Database
• The good daughter by Susan Wyndham. Sydney Morning Herald August 19, 2006.