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Tara Morice is a Actor Australienne born on 23 june 1964 at Hobart (Australie)
Tara Morice (born 23 June 1964) is an Australian actress, singer, and dancer.
She has worked extensively on stage in Australia, including productions for the Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir and the Ensemble Theatre. She played Fran in Strictly Ballroom when it premiered as a stage play in 1988, and she was a member of Baz Luhrmann's Six Years Old Company. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in Fat Swan at the 2012 Helpmann Awards and a Victorian Green Room Award for The Venetian Twins in 1990.
Her first film appearance was as Fran in the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom (directed by Baz Luhrmann), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and an Australian Film Institute award. Morice also appeared on the film's soundtrack, singing a duet of Time After Time with Mark Williams.
Morice has also appeared in the films Metal Skin, Hotel Sorrento, Hildegarde, Moulin Rouge!, Candy, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance, the OSCAR nominated Miracle Fish and Oranges and Sunshine.
Her television work includes roles in Answered by Fire, After the Deluge, Salem's Lot, Loot, Grass Roots and McLeod's Daughters. Morice had a starring role in the series of three Dogwoman telemovies with Magda Szubanski in 2000. She also plays Miss Raine in Series 1, 2 and 3 of Dance Academy for ABC/ZDF.
She wrote and directed the documentary My Biggest Fan, about her correspondence and friendship with an American great-grandmother, Mildred Levine, who wrote to her after seeing Strictly Ballroom. The film premiered at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, and was broadcast on the SBS network in Australia in 2008.
Morice has a daughter, Ondine Morice Pearce, who was the stills photographer (at age 11) on My Biggest Fan.
She re-recorded Time After Time for Baz Luhrmann's album Something For Everybody and sang on the Strictly Ballroom, Razzle Dazzle : A Journey Into Dance and My Biggest Fan soundtracks.
Tara is currently producing the feature Greylands, based on the novel by Isobelle Carmody, who is also writing the screen adaptation.
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Tara Morice
Tara Morice (born 23 June 1964) is an Australian actress, singer, and dancer.
Biography
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Morice also lived in Sydney, Alice Springs and Adelaide as a child. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Australian History and English from the Australian National University and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1987.She has worked extensively on stage in Australia, including productions for the Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir and the Ensemble Theatre. She played Fran in Strictly Ballroom when it premiered as a stage play in 1988, and she was a member of Baz Luhrmann's Six Years Old Company. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her role in Fat Swan at the 2012 Helpmann Awards and a Victorian Green Room Award for The Venetian Twins in 1990.
Her first film appearance was as Fran in the 1992 film Strictly Ballroom (directed by Baz Luhrmann), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and an Australian Film Institute award. Morice also appeared on the film's soundtrack, singing a duet of Time After Time with Mark Williams.
Morice has also appeared in the films Metal Skin, Hotel Sorrento, Hildegarde, Moulin Rouge!, Candy, Razzle Dazzle: A Journey Into Dance, the OSCAR nominated Miracle Fish and Oranges and Sunshine.
Her television work includes roles in Answered by Fire, After the Deluge, Salem's Lot, Loot, Grass Roots and McLeod's Daughters. Morice had a starring role in the series of three Dogwoman telemovies with Magda Szubanski in 2000. She also plays Miss Raine in Series 1, 2 and 3 of Dance Academy for ABC/ZDF.
She wrote and directed the documentary My Biggest Fan, about her correspondence and friendship with an American great-grandmother, Mildred Levine, who wrote to her after seeing Strictly Ballroom. The film premiered at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, and was broadcast on the SBS network in Australia in 2008.
Morice has a daughter, Ondine Morice Pearce, who was the stills photographer (at age 11) on My Biggest Fan.
She re-recorded Time After Time for Baz Luhrmann's album Something For Everybody and sang on the Strictly Ballroom, Razzle Dazzle : A Journey Into Dance and My Biggest Fan soundtracks.
Tara is currently producing the feature Greylands, based on the novel by Isobelle Carmody, who is also writing the screen adaptation.
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Miracle Fish (2010)
Genres Drama
Actors Tara Morice
Roles Mum
Rating71%
8 year old Joe (Karl Beattie) wakes up on his 8th birthday. His mum drops him off late to school, saying that there is a present in his lunch box. Feeling miserable, Joe goes through class and break time, being bullied at both turns. He finds that his present is a 'Miracle Fish,' a piece of plastic in the shape of a fish that you place in your hand and what it does determines your future.
Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
, 1h45Directed by Jim Loach
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, Richard Dillane, Tara Morice, Lorraine Ashbourne
Roles Pauline
Rating70%
The film is based on the true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered the scandal of "home children", a scheme of forcibly relocating poor children from the United Kingdom to Australia and Canada.
, 1h31Genres Comedy, Documentary, Musical
Actors Ben Miller, Kerry Armstrong, Roy Billing, Rachel Gordon, Nadine Garner, Barry Crocker
Roles Marianne
Rating65%
M. Jonathon dirige sa propre école de danse depuis 8 ans et se sent au quotidien investi d'une mission envers ses jeunes élèves. La danse n'est pas seulement un sport ou une simple distraction, c'est aussi un moyen de délivrer un message, d'éveiller les consciences à travers les pas qu'il inculque, quitte à passer pour un excentrique. Oser est son credo. Melle Elisabeth, sa principale concurrente, est de la vieille école. Elle enseigne la discipline, la rigueur aux jeunes filles qui fréquentent son Académie de danse. Un gramme de trop ou un port de tête trop relâché pourrait bien ruiner leur chance de remporter la plus importante compétition de danse d'Australie.
September (2007)
, 1h25Genres Drama
Actors Xavier Samuel, Lisa Flanagan, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Tennet, Tara Morice, Morgan Griffin
Roles Jennifer Hamilton
Rating63%
Rick and Eve Anderson are traditional wheat-and-wool farmers in Western Australia's drought-prone wheatbelt. Their 15-year-old son Ed enjoys a close friendship with Paddy, the son of Aboriginal labourer Michael Parker whose family lives in a shack on the farm and receives sustenance provisions in return for their labour. Ed attends school in a nearby township.
Candy (2006)
, 1h48Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Tony Martin, Noni Hazlehurst
Roles Aunt Katherine
Rating71%
A poet named Dan (Heath Ledger) falls in love with an art student named Candy (Abbie Cornish) who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle – and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship is alternating states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Answered by Fire (2006)
, 3h10Origin Canada
Actors Damien Garvey, David Wenham, Tara Morice, Isabelle Blais, Ron White, Toni Scanlan
Roles Helen Waldman
Rating74%
After the Deluge (2003)
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors David Wenham, Hugo Weaving, Emily Browning, Samuel Johnson, Rachel Griffiths, Aden Young
Roles Dianne
Rating72%
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
, 2h7Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about writers, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, John Leguizamo, Jacek Koman
Roles Prostitute
Rating75%
In the year 1900, a depressed British writer named Christian (Ewan McGregor) begins writing on his typewriter ("Nature Boy"). One year earlier, Christian moved to the Montmartre district of Paris to become a writer among members of the area's Bohemian movement. He soon encounters, living directly upstairs from him, a loose troupe of performers led by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo). Toulouse-Lautrec and the others ask for Christian's help, and his writing skills allow them to finish their proposed show, "Spectacular Spectacular", that they wish to sell to the owner of the Moulin Rouge, Harold Zidler (Jim Broadbent). The group arrives at the Moulin Rouge as Zidler and his "Diamond Dog Dancers" perform for the audience ("Lady Marmalade/Zidler's Rap (Can Can)/Smells Like Teen Spirit"). Toulouse arranges for Christian to see Satine (Nicole Kidman), the star courtesan, in her private quarters to present the work, unaware that Zidler is promising Satine to the wealthy and unscrupulous Duke of Monroth (Richard Roxburgh), a potential investor in the cabaret ("Sparkling Diamonds" medley).
Hotel Sorrento (1995)
, 1h52Directed by Richard Franklin
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Caroline Goodall, Tara Morice, Ray Barrett, Joan Plowright, Nicholas Bell, John Hargreaves
Roles Pippa Moynihan
Rating64%
Metal Skin (1994)
, 1h55Directed by Geoffrey Wright
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Aden Young, Tara Morice, Nadine Garner, Ben Mendelsohn, Chantal Contouri, Tommy Dysart
Roles Savina
Rating60%
Melbourne, 1994. Joe (Aden Young) lives with his mentally-ill father (Petru Gheorghiu) in working-class Altona. A shy misfit whose great love is hotted-up cars, Joe gets a job at a supermarket where he is befriended by fellow revhead Dazey (Ben Mendelsohn), a confident womaniser at the crossroads with his girlfriend, Roslyn (Nadine Garner). Savina (Tara Morice), a devil worshipper who works with Joe, feigns interest in him to get closer to Dazey. When Joe discovers Savina’s deceit he embarks on a violent and tragic rampage.
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
, 1h34Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Films based on plays
Actors Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Gia Carides, Lauren Hewett, Barry Otto
Roles Fran
Rating71%
Strictly Ballroom tells the story of an Australian ballroom dancer, Scott Hastings (Paul Mercurio), and his struggle to establish his personal style of dance on his way to win the Pan-Pacific Grand Prix Dancing Championship. Scott's steps are not strictly ballroom. Scott comes from a family with a history of ballroom dancing and has been training since childhood. Scott's mother Shirley teaches ballroom dancing, and his father Doug meekly handles maintenance chores at the dance studio.