FILMOGRAPHY
2004] Dark Love Story [co-writer]
2001] Cubbyhouse
2001] "Corridors of Power"
2001] Mullet
1999] Redball
1999] The Matrix
1997] "Simone de Beauvoir's Babies" (mini)
1996] Hotel de Love
1996] Life
1994] Halifax f.p: Hard Corps (TV)
1994] "Janus"
1993] "Seven Deadly Sins" (mini)
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Born 1968
Belinda grew up in Adelaide
Married Redball director Jon Hewitt on the 30 January 1999
Belinda got her first professional role at 14 in the world premiere of a Louis Nowra play Sunrise sharing the stage with Geoffrey Rush, Gillian Jones, Kerry Walker and John Wood in a production directed by Jim Sharman [film director of The Rocky Horror Picture Show].
Belinda studied acting at the Victorian College of the Arts graduating in 1989.
Belinda & husband Jon Hewitt co-wrote the drama Dark Love Story, in which Belinda also stars & Hewitt directs, to be released in 2004.
Belinda has performed often with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Playbox.
Theatre credits include productions of: Macbeth (1995), Snorkel (1996), The Rover (1995), Honor (1993), Mother Courage (1992), Daily Grind and The Old Man Comes Rolling Home (1990).
Belinda is a close friend of Louise Siversen [BackBerner] since they worked on the ABC series Janus.
In 1996 Belinda was nominated for a Green Room Award for Best Fringe Performer in the La Mama production of Snorkel.
In 1995, for her work on Janus, Belinda was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Actress in a Television Series.
Belinda on people's percetions:
"It's taken me a long time to realise that I shouldn't care how people perceive me. You can damage yourself, I think, by trying to be everything that everyone wants you to be."
Belinda on roles she's attracted to:
"I'm a hard-to-cast actor, in a way. I'm left of centre and I'm attracted to projects that are a little nasty and darker, or political. They are just the things I am naturally drawn to."
Belinda on Corridors Of Power:
"She's formidable, stylish, ambitious, doesn't suffer fools and loves a good root. I'm having a ball playing her, I'm having lots of fun. When you meet her, she's just begun her campaign for the Senate and the election is looming. Through the course of the series she is by Tony's side, battling his battles, as well as fighting her own."
Belinda on politics:
"I'm not a political animal. I take a very vague interest in it from afar, so getting my head around the politics, going to Parliament House and meeting some of the politicians on both sides was a real eye-opener for me."
Belinda on The Matrix sequels:
Larry and Andy (Wachowski) were such lovely men to work for, and it was a huge juggernaut to be a part of. Anyone in their right mind would want to be a part of that, but I have had my turn and they are employing a lot of other Australian actors, so it's their turn now. But, yes, I'm a little sad."
Belinda on her Matrix character being made into an action figure:
"I do have one, and it's on my husband's [Jon Hewitt] desk. I was so thrilled when they made an action figure out of me, because I was on the periphery in the movie, really, and didn't expect that to happen. When it did, I really liked it, but then I took it home and my husband got me out of the packet, and started moving my legs about and I didn't like it then, so I made him stop. My best friend says they got my frown right. I guess it's a bit of fun. My nieces and nephews like playing with me."
Mullet Director David Caesar on Belinda:
“I saw Belinda in a telemovie 10 years ago, and every thing she does is fantastic ...she is an under-utilised resource.”