Name
Robin McLeavy
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1981-06-19 (45 years old)
Place of Birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
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Robin McLeavy (born 19 June 1981) is an Australian actress. McLeavy is from Sydney, Australia. She graduated from NIDA in 2004. McLeavy starred as Lola Stone in the critically acclaimed Australian horror film, The Loved Ones. The film was screened at Toronto International Film Festival in 2009 and won the Audience Choice Award. In 2009, McLeavy played the role of Stella Kowalski opposite Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton in the Sydney Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire. The production was directed by Liv Ullmann and toured to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. She received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer. She appeared in four encore seasons of Holding the Man, an award-winning play by Tommy Murphy.
She played Isabella in Benedict Andrews's production of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare at the Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, 5 – 25 July 2010. She appeared as Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, directed by Benedict Andrews for the Belvoir Theatre Company in 2007, and for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards.
Between 2011 and 2016 McLeavy played frontier tribal abductee survivor Eva Oates on the Western series Hell on Wheels. This character, including physical likeness, was inspired by the real story of Olive Oatman.
She portrayed Nancy Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in 2012. In 2015, McLeavy took on the role the voice of Nutsy, a Koala in Blinky Bill the Movie alongside Ryan Kwanten, Rufus Sewell, David Wenham, Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto, and Barry Humphries on the Australian computer-animated adventure film based the book by Dorothy Wall; and she played Barbara Henning in Backtrack.
Known For
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When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly v...
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- 2010 The Loved Ones as Lola "Princess" Stone
- 2006 48 Shades as Jacq
- 2012 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as Nancy Hanks Lincoln
- 2024 Force of Nature: The Dry 2 as Lauren
- 2015 Backtrack as Barbara Henning
- 2015 Blinky Bill the Movie as Nutsy (voice)
- 2010 After the Credits as Lucy
- 2011 Hell on Wheels ( 57 episodes ) as Eva
- 1998 All Saints ( 1 episode ) as Katherine Burnett
- 2013 The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting ( 6 episodes ) as Various Characters
- 2019 Wu Assassins ( 3 episodes ) as Maggie McCullough
- 2021 The Newsreader ( 4 episodes ) as Marcia Evans
- 2013 Super Fun Night ( 1 episode ) as Lucinda
