Robin McLeavy

Robin McLeavy (born 19 June 1981) is an Australian actress.

Robin McLeavy was born on June 19, 1981, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She grew up in Sydney, where she developed an early interest in the performing arts. Her upbringing was influenced by her mother, an environmental activist who was prominent in the Australian ecological movement during the late 1960s and 1970s. McLeavy has often credited her mother for her own lifelong commitment to environmental awareness. Education McLeavy attended high school in Sydney, where she coincidentally attended the same school for a period as director Sean Byrne, who would later cast her in her breakout film role. Following high school, she was accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Australia’s premier drama school. She graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Dramatic Art in Acting, joining an alumni list that includes Cate Blanchett and Mel Gibson. Career Beginnings Shortly after graduating from NIDA, McLeavy began her professional career on the Australian stage and in television.

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.^[1]

She played Isabella in Benedict Andrews's production of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare at the Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, 5 – 25 July 2010.^[2] 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.^[3] 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 animated adventure film based the book by Dorothy Wall; and she played Barbara Henning in Backtrack.

In 2012, McLeavy was nominated for the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Leading Actress for The Loved Ones, but the award went to Elizabeth Olsen for Silent House.

• Robin McLeavy at IMDb