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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1971-05-26

Place of Birth

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Rachael Blake

Biography

Rachael Morelle Blake (born 26 May 1971, in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian actress who trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. She made her early television appearances on Home and Away (1995–1997) and Heartbreak High (1996), and her first feature film was Paws (1997). Her breakthrough role came as Dr. Maxine Summers in the ABC crime drama Wildside (1997–1998), for which she won the Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress in 1999. She is married to Australian comedian Tony Martin, whom she wed on 21 December 2003. Her most notable film credits include Lantana (2001, as Jane O'May, for which she won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), Perfect Strangers (2003, Fantasporto Best Actress), Sleeping Beauty (2011, as Clara, directed by Julia Leigh), Truth (2015, as Betsy West, alongside Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford), Gods of Egypt (2016, as Isis), Breath (2017, directed by Simon Baker), and Melody (2014, Best Actress at the Montreal Film Festival). On television she has appeared in Suburban Shootout (2006–2007), The Prisoner (2009), Cleverman (2016), Wolf Like Me (2022), Significant Others (2022), and Eden (2021). She is also a voice-over artist, having narrated the Emmy-nominated documentary Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines (2013).

Known for

Lewis

Lewis

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.

Gods of Egypt

Gods of Egypt

A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

Wildside

Wildside

Wildside is an Australian police procedural television series broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999. The show consisted of a one hour format that followed police interactions in inner Sydney. It starred Rachael Blake, Tony Martin, Richard Carter and Alex Dimitriades. Mary Coustas joined the series in a regular role late in its run, appearing in the last ten episodes. The series was filmed in Sydney. It was characterised by its use of ad lib dialogue and hand held camera work. It won several Logie Awards, including Silver Logies for outstanding work by Rachael Blake and Tony Martin for acting, as well as the Most Outstanding Miniseries Logie in 1998. It was also nominated for several Australian Film Institute Awards. A rerun of the series began in Australia on ABC1 in the early hours of Friday mornings, starting in September 2008.

Eden

Eden

The disappearance of a young woman triggers a devastating chain of events which lays bare the dark, hidden heart of paradise. Long buried secrets are dragged into the open as lives and deeds of local residents intersect over one fractured summer and its aftermath.

The Prisoner

The Prisoner

A man wakes up in a new place - a place he doesn't recognize, a place where people have numbers instead of names, a place called "The Village" where all traces of his former life are renounced as delusions.

Breath

Breath

A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.

Derailed

Derailed

When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

My Mistress

My Mistress

After the death of his father, a 16-year-old boy struggles with anger and instability, distancing himself from his mother. His search for escape leads him to a lonely dominatrix living nearby, a woman accustomed to giving and controlling pain. Drawn to her world, he seeks both solace and love, while she finds herself pulled into a bond that neither expected but both need.

The Straits

The Straits

Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama. The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day smugglers, their family business is transporting drugs into Australia and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands.

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.

False Witness

False Witness

A British diplomat is arrested on charges of working with Russian mafia. After death threats to his wife, they are taken into protective custody. Then the MI6 shows up with a new piece of the puzzle.

Significant Others

Significant Others

A bold new Australian psychological drama. When Sarah, a single mother of two teenagers, suddenly vanishes, her chaotic family are drawn back to their crumbling home. Doubts surface about Sarah's disappearance, as her family struggles to put the pieces back together.

Suburban Shootout

Suburban Shootout

Suburban Shootout is a British satirical black comedy television series produced for Channel 5 and Paramount Comedy by Feelgood Fiction in association with Oxygen. The first series aired in the UK on Channel 5 from 27 April 2006. It began airing in the United States on 22 March 2006 on Oxygen and in Germany on Comedy Central in 2007. The second series began on Channel 5 on 6 September 2007.

Truth

Truth

As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned, and the casualties begin to mount.