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Cherie Nowlan

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Cherie Nowlan (born Singleton, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian film and television director.

She is best known for directing the 1997 film Thank God He Met Lizzie starring Cate Blanchett and Frances O'Connor, her feature film directorial debut. As well as directing the 2007 film Clubland (internationally known as Introducing the Dwights).

Nowlan's first film was a documentary entitled God's Girls (1991), about the nuns who taught in her former high school. The film won the Best Documentary prize at the Australian Film Institute Awards. In 1995, she wrote and directed the short film Lucinda 31, which was screened in film festivals in New York and Brisbane. The script was an adaptation of a short story by Alexandra Long.

She has also had a career in television, directing episodes of The Secret Life of Us, All Saints, Dance Academy, Packed to the Rafters and the American series Life Unexpected and 90210. As well as the television films Marking Time (2003), Small Claims (2004), The Alice (2005), Small Claims: White Wedding (2007), Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away (2011) and Underbelly: Razor (2011).

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Carol Burns
Carol Burns
(2 films)
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Filmography of Cherie Nowlan (5 films)

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Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away
Directed by Cherie Nowlan
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Toby Schmitz, Claire van der Boom, Jeremy Sims, Aaron Jeffery, Nicholas Eadie, Brendan Cowell
Rating65% 3.289213.289213.289213.289213.28921
The Man Who Got Away tells the true story of British-Australian drug smuggler David McMillan. McMillan came from a privileged background, but chose a life of crime, which put him on Interpol's Top Ten Most Wanted list. The love of his life was also his partner in crime, Clelia Vigano. Together McMillan and Vigano were an unstoppable force, or so they thought.
Clubland
Clubland (2007)
, 1h45
Directed by Cherie Nowlan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Emma Booth, Rebecca Gibney, Brenda Blethyn, Richard Wilson, Philip Quast, Russell Dykstra
Rating63% 3.1931853.1931853.1931853.1931853.193185
Life for shy 21-year-old Tim Maitland (Khan Chittenden) is not always smooth sailing. His mum Jean (Brenda Blethyn) is a cafeteria worker by day who hits the comedy club circuit by night, while his dad John (Frankie J. Holden) is busy trying to recapture his fifteen minutes of fame from when he was a country and western singer back in 1975. But when the feisty beautiful Jill (Emma Booth) walks into Tim's life, things seem to be looking up. Unfortunately, there's another woman in Tim's life, one who will stand between him and the perfect romance... his mother!
Thank God He Met Lizzie, 1h31
Directed by Cherie Nowlan
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cate Blanchett, Richard Roxburgh, Celia Ireland, Frances O'Connor, Linden Wilkinson, Roy Billing
Rating57% 2.897782.897782.897782.897782.89778
It revolves around two stories, firstly the upcoming wedding of Lizzie (Cate) and Guy (Richard) and a second story in flashback of Guy's previous relationship with Jenny (Frances O'Connor).