Leah Purcell

ACTRESS, DIRECTOR, WRITER

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Multi talented Leah Purcell is a Theatre, Film and Television Actress, Singer, Director, Playwright and Author. She is the youngest of seven children of Aboriginal Australian descent. Her father was a butcher and a boxing trainer. After a difficult adolescence, looking after her sick mother who died while Leah was in her late teens, problems with alcohol and teenage motherhood, Purcell left Murgon mission and moved to Brisbane and became involved with community theatre. In 1996 she moved to Sydney to become presenter on a music video cable television station, RED Music Channel. This was followed by roles in the ABC television series Police Rescue and Fallen Angels and the excellent Australian Drama starring Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney, Jindabyne. She co-wrote and starred in a play called Box the Pony, which played at Sydney's Belvoir Street Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, the Queensland Performing Arts Complex (QPAC), the 1999 Edinburgh Festival and in 2000 at the Barbican Theatre in London. She then wrote and directed the documentary Black Chicks Talking, which won a 2002 Inside Film (IF) award. She appeared in the acclaimed Australian film Lantana and on stage in The Vagina Monologues. She went on to appear in three 2004 films including Somersault (starring Abbie Cornish) and The Proposition as well as playing the role of Condoleeza Rice in David Hare's play, Stuff Happens in Sydney and Melbourne. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Takeshi-K

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Leah Purcell’s flixes, followed by Apple iTunes compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Leah Purcell on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1997 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Leah Purcell movies released per year from 1997 till 2021.

Top Genres

Leah Purcell works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 40% of Leah Purcell movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Leah Purcell worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Leah Purcell has worked on is 7.6.

7.6 / 10

Leah Purcell's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

The troubled lives of struggling indigenous Australians in the tough, rundown neighborhood of the inner suburb of Redfern in Sydney.

8/1060 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Janet King (2014)

Senior Prosecutor Janet King returns from maternity leave to confront a high-profile murder, and a conspiracy which will have shocking ramifications throughout the judicial system.

7.7/1060 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

A comedy about the working lives of plainclothes detectives Red Lilywhite and Lou Knutt who work in an outer suburban police station in Sydney.

7.5/1026 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,History,Thriller
The Drover's Wife (2021)

6.8/10109 min

Available in 5 platform(s).