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ACTRESS
Otto, 43, has been nominated for five AFI Awards (in 1992, just two years after graduating from NIDA, she received both a Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress nomination). Her film work has included the acclaimed Doing Time for Patsy Cline, The Well, The Lord of the Rings and Blessed. Her theatre work began with the 1986 Sydney Theatre Company (STC) production of The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant; more roles followed, including 2002's A Doll's House and 2005's Boy Gets Girl. Otto, who says, "I grew up in an artistic family, I can't imagine my life without culture," is an ambassador of children's theatre company Theatre of Image. She will return to the stage this June, in The White Guard, at STC.
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PROFESSOR LARISSA
BEHRENDT
AUTHOR AND ADVOCATE
A Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman, Behrendt, 42, is a law professor, board member of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre, and prize-winning author. In 2010, she won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her novel, Legacy, and in 2005, her debut novel, Home, a fictionalised account of how policies on Australia's stolen generations affected her family, won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. A powerful voice for Aboriginal rights, Behrendt won the NAIDOC Person of the Year Award in 2009 and was named the 2011 NSW Australian of the Year.
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ARTIST
In 1997, after time spent living on Dunk Island at an artists' colony, Emdur—whose dreamlike paintings have developed a strong following—booked her first solo show. The following year, she exhibited at Sydney's Arthouse Gallery, where, over 10 years, she became a feature artist before taking her work to the renowned Tim Olsen Gallery; here she has exhibited for the past two years. Emdur's pieces sell for up to $60,000, and she has twice been a finalist for the Archibald Prize, including for her 2003 portrait of actress Claudia Karvan. Emdur, 44, supports numerous charities, and has donated works to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal and the Sydney Children's Hospital Gold Dinner.
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