Robyn Nevin AO
Robyn Nevin AO has become one of the most prominent and prolific artistic figures Australia has ever produced.
Nevin has played leading roles at all of Australia’s major theatre companies, in London’s West End and in the US, including Carnegie Hall in New York. Her many memorable roles include Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Miss Docker in Patrick White’s A Cheery Soul, Maria Callas in Masterclass, Hecuba in Women Of Troy, Mary Tyrone in Long Days Journey Into Night, Joan Didion’s one woman play The Year Of Magical Thinking, Lally Katz’s Neighbourhood Watch, Emma in Neil Armfield’s celebrated production of Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll, Queen Lear in Queen Lear at Melbourne Theatre Company, Mrs Venables in Suddenly Last Summer for Sydney Theatre Company at the Sydney Opera House, The Fool in Lear with Geoffrey Rush, and Kate in All My Sons. Throughout 2016 and 2017 Robyn toured with My Fair Lady, directed by Julie Andrews, playing Mrs. Higgins. She premiered the Australian tour of Christopher Hampton’s one woman play A German Life, directed by Neil Armfield, at the Adelaide Festival in 2021. Robyn appeared as Madame Morrible in Wicked for Crossroads Live in 2023 and 2024.
She has appeared in iconic Australian films such as, The Eye Of The Storm with Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis and Charlotte Rampling, The Castle, Emerald City, Careful He Might Hear You, The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith and Caddie. Her credits also include the highly successful Matrix films, the horror film Relic opposite Emily Mortimer and Bella Heathcote, The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race for Paramount Plus, Sting alongside Ryan Coor and Noni Hazlehurst, and most recently as Chief Librarian in Jeffrey Walker’s Fing!, based on bestselling author David Walliams’ acclaimed children’s book.
Nevin’s Television credits include several seasons of Halifax, Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake, the award-winning television series Water Under The Bridge, The Turning (based on the short stories of Tim Winton) alongside Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh, and three award winning seasons of Upper Middle Bogan. Nevin can most recently be seen opposite Kaitlyn Dever and Alycia Debnam-Carey in Netflix’s miniseries Apple Cider Vinegar.
Her awards for Best Actress include the Helpmann Award, Sydney Critic’s Award and Green Room Award. A Sydney Myer Performing Arts Award, a SAMMY, and a Logie Award for Water Under The Bridge. For her enormous contribution to the arts of the nation, she received a Keating Fellowship, was made an Honorary Doctor of Literature at the University of Tasmania and was awarded by the government by being made an Officer of the Order of Australia.