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Sally Mclean
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performance history
Sally commenced Speech and Drama training in her first year of high school, before moving onto television training at the age of 15 with Australian actress Bunny Brooks. She followed this up with further television training with Crawfords Casting Director Graham Moore, alongside studying Opera and Musical Comedy with dance disciplines in Jazz, Ballet and Tap.
Since commencing professional work, Sally has tended the sick in Flying Doctors, modelled on Bingles, sung and thrown up for The D-Generation, solicited for customers on Totally Full Frontal, been Kylie’s schoolyard mate and Guy Pearce’s model student in Neighbours, been very annoyed with Nick Giannopoulous on Acropolis Now!, had a knight in shining armour, a priest and water dumped over her in the name of the A-Z Homeguide series of commercials, sold cars for Nissan, sold beds for Sleepy Sam’s, pretended she knew about engines for Repco Autos, demonstrated and was arrested on Blue Heelers and eventually got into bed with Steve Vizard on Tonight Live - after which, she left the country.
She then studied at The Actor's Institute, London, completing her Degree in Dramatic Art, and beginning her MA in Drama & Education, before going on to play roles in UK theatre, television and film, including the lead roles in the World Premier of Annabel's Requiem, and the films A Little Rain Must Fall (invited to screen at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival) and Just Move Your Lips, as well as being the voice for the relaunch of UKGold TV. She also snogged a stranger in a phone box in the middle of Piccadilly Circus for The Bookworm, mourned at a grave for Poetry Nation and married for money in The 80’s, amongst other roles for BBC television. A highlight was playing a decidedly male “King Duncan” in the all-female Macbeth, described as “… an utterly convincing performance as the old Scottish King, belying the fact that McLean is not only young and a woman, but also Australian.” - Time Out.
Upon her return to Australia, she interviewed cops on Blue Heelers, played a primary school teacher with a social conscience in the film Joining The Dots, been everybody’s favourite girl-next-door in the award-winning play Lovepuke and sung and danced her way across the stage with Julia Morris in the Australian premier of the Broadway comedy review I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.
Her recent work includes the role of "Angie Powers" in the BBC mini-series Bootleg, opposite Tim Robertson and the lead role of "Judith" in the World Premier performance of The Clairvoyant.
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