:en:Magda Szubanski

Szubanski was born on 12 April 1961, in Liverpool, England.Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. Her mother Margaret (née McCarthy) is Scottish-Irish and came from a poor family. Her father, Zbigniew Szubański, came from a well-off Polish family and was an assassin in a counter-intelligence branch of the Polish resistance movement in World War II.{{cite news|last=Craven|first=Peter|title=There's something about Magda|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/bartsb-magda-szubanski-wants-to-play-lady-macbeth/2007/11/08/1194329411877.html?page=fullpage|access-date=11 March 2014|newspaper=The Age|date=10 November 2007}}{{cite news|last=McMahon|first=Kate|title=Magda Szubanski had suicidal thoughts over sexuality|url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/actor-magda-szubanski-tells-the-world-she-is-gay/story-e6frfmyi-1226271802590|access-date=11 March 2014|newspaper=News.com.au|date=15 February 2012}}{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.ancestry.com.au/ancestry/2010/11/26/new-australian-who-do-you-think-you-are-magda-szubanski//|title=New Australian Who Do You Think You Are?®: Magda Szubanski|date=26 November 2010|newspaper=Ancestry.com.au Blog|language=en-US|access-date=24 November 2016}}{{cite web|last=Szubanski|first=Magda|title=Reclaiming Fear|url=http://themoth.org/posts/storytellers/magda-szubanski|publisher=The Moth|access-date=23 March 2014|date=18 March 2014}} She is a cousin of Polish actress Magdalena Zawadzka.

She attended Siena College, Melbourne. In 1976, as a Year 10 student, she captained a team on the television quiz show It's Academic.{{cite web|last=Burnstock|first=Tammy|title=It's Academic – Episode 40: Curator's notes|url=http://aso.gov.au/titles/tv/its-academic-episode-40/notes/|work=Australian Screen|publisher=National Film and Sound Archive, Australia|access-date=11 March 2014}} Szubanski studied fine arts and philosophy at the University of Melbourne and, decades later, in 2016, attained a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Arts (degree with honours).{{Cite web|url=https://sis.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-bin/awards.pl|title=Student Information System|last=Systems|first=Student Management|date=2006-06-28|website=sis.unimelb.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2018-09-16}}

File:Magda Szubanski (Sharon Strzelecki) at Kath & Kimderella movie premiere.jpg film premiere, August 2012]]

Szubanski was a writer and performer of sketch comedy. In 1985, while performing in a University of Melbourne revue of Too Cool for Sandals, Szubanski, Michael Veitch, Tom Gleisner and others were talent-spotted by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) producers, which led to The D-Generation television sketch comedy show.{{cite web|title=Magda Szubanski (Mondo Things: Cheat Notes, episode 30)|url=http://www.abc.net.au/thingo/txt/s1204560.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041010021917/http://www.abc.net.au/thingo/txt/s1204560.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 October 2004|work=Mondo Things|publisher=ABC|access-date=11 March 2014}}

Szubanski was one of the creators and performers of the Fast Forward television sketch comedy for the Seven Network, in which she played various characters, including Pixie-Anne Wheatley, Chenille from the Institute de Beauté, Wee Mary MacGregor, Joan Kirner, Michelle Grogan. The character of Lynne Postlethwaite was first performed on the ABC's The D-Generation. It was originally written by John Allsop and Andrew Knight, but from Fast Forward on Szubanski co-wrote the sketches, and created and co-wrote her characters.

In 1995, she and friends Gina Riley and Jane Turner wrote, performed and produced the first all-female Australian sketch comedy television program; Big Girl's Blouse. When Riley and Turner developed sketch-characters they had created into the sitcom Kath & Kim, Szubanski joined them to play Sharon Strzelecki, a character she had previously created.{{cite web |url=https://dailyreview.com.au/big-girls-blouse-australias-short-lived-feminist-comedy-masterpiece/ |title=Big Girl's Blouse: Australia's Short-Lived Feminist Comedy Masterpiece |last=Neutze |first=Ben |date=December 14, 2015 |website=Daily Review |access-date=June 3, 2021}} That same year, Szubanski hosted the 37th Australian Film Institute Awards.{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130570161|title='Frontline takes a bite of AFI glory'|last=Rosenberg|first=Jen|date=13 November 1995|newspaper=The Canberra Times|access-date=17 January 2023|via=National Library of Australia}}

In 1999, Szubanski created, wrote, co-produced and played Margaret O'Halloran in the Dogwoman series of TV films, a detective style show based on the idea an expert "dog-whisperer" who, by treating problem dogs, inadvertently stumbles upon and solves human crimes.

File:Sharon Strzelecki (7879439094).jpg is one of Szubanski's most developed characters]]

In 2009, she appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? where she explored her father's Polish Resistance activities as well as the story of her shell-shocked Irish grandfather and her sculptor ancestor Luigi Isepponi who assisted in making the death mask for William Burke, half of the duo Burke and Hare, notorious grave robbers and serial killers.

From 3 September 2018, Szubanski recurred as Jemima Davies-Smythe on Neighbours. Her character officiated the first same-sex wedding on Australian television.{{Cite web |url=https://www.novafm.com.au/entertainment/tv-movies/magda-szubanski-has-joined-cast-neighbours/ |title=Magda Szubanski has joined the cast of Neighbours |last=Crofts |first=Cassie |date=30 May 2018 |website=NovaFM |access-date=June 3, 2021}}

On 8 April 2019, she appeared as "Guest Announcer" on Chris & Julia's Sunday Night Takeaway's season finale where she participated in a number of roles.

On 9 March 2021, Szubanski was announced as the host of the Nine Network's revival of The Weakest Link. Initially due to premiere on 4 May 2021, it instead premiered on 25 May following a tight production schedule.{{Cite web |last=Knox |first=David |title=New date for The Weakest Link premiere |url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2021/05/new-date-for-the-weakest-link-premiere.html/ |access-date=June 12, 2021 |website=TV Tonight |date=17 May 2021 |language=en-AU}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/bbcstudios/2021/bbc-studios-to-produce-weakest-link-for-australias-channel-nine |title=BBC Studios to produce Weakest Link for Australia's Channel Nine |website=BBC |access-date=June 3, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.mediaweek.com.au/nine-to-revive-weakest-link-in-new-season-hosted-by-magda-szubanski/ |title=Nine to revive Weakest Link in new season hosted by Magda Szubanski |date=May 9, 2021 |website=Mediaweek |access-date=June 3, 2021}}

Szubanski performed in the 1995 film Babe as Esme Hoggett. She reprised her role in the 1998 sequel, Babe: Pig in the City. She then teamed up again with director/producer George Miller to voice the role of Miss Viola in the animated films Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two.

In 2007, she had a minor role as Mrs Lonsdale, the housemaid in The Golden Compass to Lyra Belacqua.

In 2007, Szubanski ventured into musical comedy, taking on the role of William Barfee in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of the hit Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Variety described her performance as "sensationally good".{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2006/legit/reviews/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee-2-1200518790/|title=Review: 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'|last=Kemp|first=Peter H.|date=5 February 2006|newspaper=Variety|language=en-US|access-date=17 January 2017}} Australian Stage said, "Magda Szubanski as the Eric Cartman-esque William Barfee steals the show."{{Cite web|url=http://www.australianstage.com.au/reviews/sydney/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee-460.html|title=The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee|website=www.australianstage.com.au|access-date=17 January 2017}}

In 2008, she again participated in some gender-blind casting, taking on the role of pint-sized gangster Big Jule in a major stage production of Guys and Dolls.

In 2010, she appeared in the first Indigenous musical film Bran Nue Dae as Roadhouse Betty alongside Geoffrey Rush, Ernie Dingo, Missy Higgins and Deborah Mailman. The film was directed by Rachel Perkins, daughter of the Aboriginal activist Charlie Perkins.

In 2012, she again teamed with Rush to appear in the Stephen Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

In 2020, Szubanski was the painted subject of Wendy Sharpe's Archibald Prize entry, a portrait painting competition held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In Sharpe's painting, Comedy and Tragedy, Szubanski is depicted as Sharon Strzelecki, standing amongst flaming buildings during an air raid.{{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Archibald 2020 work: Magda Szubanski – comedy and tragedy by Wendy Sharpe |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2020/30244/ |access-date=2023-03-09 |website=www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au |language=en}}

The painting achieved finalist status in the competition; and in an interview with AGNSW, Sharpe commented:

'After an intense conversation with Magda in my Sydney studio, I decided to change my original concept for the portrait and painted her as a despairing version of her comic character/alter ego Sharon. Magda is haunted by her father's traumatic experiences in World War II in the Polish resistance, and by current world events.'

In 2004, Szubanski advertised the airline Jetstar. Szubanski became a spokesperson for the dieting company Jenny Craig in November 2008.{{cite news|last=Park|first=Nicky|title=Weight no longer a joke for Magda Szubanski|url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/entertainment/weight-no-longer-a-joke-for-magda-szubanski/2008/12/23/1229998517442.html|access-date=11 March 2014|newspaper=Brisbane Times|agency=AAP|date=24 December 2008}} Szubanski joined Jenny Craig weighing 110 kg and had been diagnosed with sleep apnoea. By July 2009, she had lost 36 kg to weigh 85 kg.{{cite news|last=Browne|first=Rachel|title=The risks and rewards of celebrity slimmers|url=http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/the-risks-and-rewards-of-celebrity-slimmers-20091031-hqq6.html|access-date=11 March 2014|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=1 November 2009}} She later regained weight, then was dropped as a spokesperson for Jenny Craig. However, subsequent weight loss led to her being re-signed as their spokesperson. She was later again dropped from Jenny Craig. She was also featured in commercials for Telstra in 2014. In 2019, she appeared in an Uber Eats ad in her Sharon Strzelecki character with a "Kim", referencing fellow Kath & Kim character Kim Craig, but who turns out to be Kim Kardashian.

In 2015, Szubanski released a memoir, Reckoning, in large part about her father, Zbigniew Szubanski who was a World War 2 Polish Resistance assassin, and dealing with themes of intergenerational trauma, possible genetic inheritance of traumatic memory and Szubanski's struggles with her own sexuality. The book won the TBA{{Cite web|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/nsw-premiers-literary-awards-szubanski-beats-grenville/news-story/0efbf5cb511d4ac827793798fae96eee|title=Subscribe to The Australian {{!}} Newspaper home delivery, website, iPad, iPhone & Android apps|website=www.theaustralian.com.au|language=en|access-date=2018-03-16}} and $40,000 Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction{{Cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/books/nsw-premiers-literary-awards-szubanski-beats-grenville/news-story/0efbf5cb511d4ac827793798fae96eee|title=Subscribe {{!}} theaustralian|website=www.theaustralian.com.au|access-date=17 January 2017}} and "Book of the Year" and "Biography of the Year" at the Australian Book Industry Awards. Reviewer Peter Craven, in The Australian, said it would "dazzle every kind of reader" and described it as "a riveting, overwhelmingly poignant autobiography by a woman of genius. It is a book about how someone might live with the idea of killing the thing they love. It is a story of love and death and redemption and a daughter's love for her father. It is an extraordinary hymn to the tragic heroism at the heart of ordinary life and the soaring moral scrutiny of womankind. Every library should have it, every school should teach it."{{Cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/magda-szubanskis-memoir-reveals-a-woman-of-substance/news-story/023cf36199ab61155a4f96e631f693f1|title=A woman of substance|date=2 October 2015|access-date=17 January 2017}} Richard Ferguson in The Sydney Morning Herald wrote, "This is documentary writing of the highest order and Szubanski has given life to an incredible war story...Reckoning, this tale of war and suburbia, sexuality and comedy" and referred to Szubanski as an A-grade non-fiction writer.{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/m17booksrev2-20151008-gk4e1o.html|title=Book review: In Reckoning, Magda Szubanski pays homage to her assassin dad|last=Ferguson|first=Richard|date=16 October 2015|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en-US|access-date=17 January 2017}}

Actor and friend Geoffrey Rush launched her book and wrote in The Guardian: "I was absorbed in preparing for King Lear when I read the book. The classical stature of that particular father-daughter relationship didn't go unnoticed. Magda grew up in the shadow of a difficult reckoning — the summation, the questioning, the Elizabethan sense of settling the bill with one's parents. As she phrases it: her father needed to forget— she needed to remember. The only way forward was back. Her book riffs a major life in a reflective minor key. I've got lost in Joyce's Dublin, Woolf's Bloomsbury, the Bronte Sisters' Yorkshire moors. Now I'm enthralled with Magda Szubanski's Croydon, Australia's own collective sub-conscious suburb, the architecture of which she deftly anoints as Bauhaus's "bastard child"...Reckoning is really a non-fiction novel – and its invitation into Magda's story is infectious."{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/in-praise-of-magda-szubanski-kath-and-kims-class-clown-and|title=The chameleon comedian who charmed a country: Geoffrey Rush on Magda Szubanski|last=Rush|first=Geoffrey|date=14 October 2015|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=17 January 2017}} The New South Wales Premier's Award judges described Reckoning as 'warm, clear, wise, funny and deeply intelligent. The amplitude of Szubanski's writing is particularly impressive. Her voice has a light surety, while constantly giving narrative and moral weight to the larger themes of grief, family, migration and finding one's place in the world'."{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/magda-szubanskis-memoir-reckoning-finds-its-place-in-the-world-of-winners-20160518-goyd8h.html|title=Magda Szubanski's memoir Reckoning finds its place in the world of winners|last=Wyndham|first=Susan|date=20 May 2016|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en-US|access-date=17 January 2017}}

Szubanski is the author of "Timmy the Ticked Off Pony", a series of children's books illustrated by Dean Rankine.

In 2019, Szubanski was appointed an officer in the general division of the Order of Australia (AO) "for distinguished service to the performing arts as an actor, comedian and writer, and as a campaigner for marriage equality."{{Cite web|last=Derkley|first=Evahn|date=2019-01-25|title=Australia Day 2019 Honours List|url=https://www.gg.gov.au/2019-australia-day-honours-list|access-date=2021-05-12|website=www.gg.gov.au|language=en}}

Szubanski has been a vocal campaigner for LGBT rights and for same-sex marriage since coming out publicly in 2012.{{Cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/gaygaygaygay--magda-comes-out-20120214-1t498.html|title=Gay-gay-gay-gay - Magda comes out|last=Quinn|first=Karl|date=2012-02-15|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=2018-01-24|language=en-US}} She is patron of the LGBT group, Twenty/10.{{cite web|title=Who We Are - Patron Magda Szubanski - Twenty10 Inc GLCS NSW|url=http://www.twenty10.org.au/we-are-twenty10/|website=Twenty10 inc GLCS NSW}}

During the same-sex Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, Szubanski was interviewed on several TV shows advocating for a "Yes" result.{{cite news|last1=Moran|first1=Rob|title=Magda Szubanski in tears on The Project over marriage equality vote|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/magda-szubanski-in-tears-on-the-project-over-marriage-equality-vote-20170823-gy2vih.html|access-date=24 October 2017|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=24 August 2017}} The co-chair of Australian Marriage Equality {{Who|date=April 2021}} rated her crucial in the success of the "Yes" campaign.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/marriage-equality-magda-szubanskis-crucial-role-in-yes-victory-20171113-gzk0ta.html|title=Marriage equality: Magda Szubanski's crucial role in yes victory|last=Lallo|first=Michael|date=2017-11-15|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en|access-date=2018-03-16}}

In 2020, Szubanski and Will "Egg Boy" Connolly raised $190,000 for bushfire affected communities and together with trauma experts co-founded "Regeneration", a creative arts project to provide mental-health support.{{Cite news|date=March 15, 2021|title=Unlikely partnership between Magda Szubanski and 'Egg Boy' helping to heal bushfire-hit communities|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-15/magda-szubanski-egg-boy-helping-bushfire-hit-communities/13061688}}

In 2013, Szubanski became the Patron of "Twenty10".{{Cite web|title=Our Patron and Ambassadors|url=https://www.twenty10.org.au/our-ambassadors/|access-date=2021-06-06|website=Twenty10 inc GLCS NSW|language=en-AU}}

In the 90s Szubanski did blackface for a television show which aired on the Seven Network.{{cite web | url=https://www.huffpost.com/archive/au/entry/magda-szubanski-talks-mental-health-blackface_au_5db8bd93e4b0bb1ea37109af | title=Magda Szubanski Talks Doing Blackface 25 Years Ago: 'We're All on a Learning Journey' | date=30 October 2019 }}

In 2019, Szubanski was involved in a campaign targeting Christian preacher and rugby league football player Israel Folau after he called on homosexuals to "repent of their sins and turn to God". Szubanski prominently launched an appeal to fund opposition to Folau. After Szubanski was criticized, Folau called for an end to on-line attacks on Szubanski.{{cite web |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/israel-folau-defends-magda-szubanski-calls-for-end-to-online-attacks |title=Israel Folau defends Magda Szubanski, calls for end to online attacks |date=January 7, 2019 |website=SBS News |access-date=June 12, 2021}}

In 2020, the Commissioner for eSafety, Julie Inman Grant, told senate estimates that Szubanski had been the target of "Volumetric...co-ordinated right-wing extremist attacks" after she appeared in a COVID safety ad.{{Cite news|date=October 22, 2020|title=Magda Szubanski cops 'avalanche of hate' from right-wing extremists|work=Weekend Australian|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/magda-szubanski-cops-avalanche-of-hate-from-rightwing-extremists/news-story/531800b34c068cdc69d3abef9f0539bd}}

In April 2021 Szubanski faced criticism and calls for her to hand back the award which had appointed her officer in the Order of Australia (AO) after she criticised the appearance of Jenny Morrison, wife of the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. Commenting on the Morrisons in a photograph of the Prime Minister signing a condolence book after the death of Prince Philip, Szubanski compared the Prime Minister's wife's appearance to a character in a fictional religious extremist society of sex slaves from the series The Handmaid's Tale.{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/rita-panahi-magda-szubanskis-a-current-affair-chat-a-hot-mess-of-divisive-spin/news-story/53d3a0f60e274073c8fc7ba2602747c9%3famp.html |title=Rita Panahi: Magda Szubanski's A Current Affair chat hot mess |website=The Herald Sun |access-date=16 April 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://7news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/magda-szubanski-under-fire-for-sharing-meme-about-pms-wife-jenny-c-2584761 |title=Magda Suzbanski Under Fire for Sharing 'meme' about PM's wife Jenny |last=Chapman |first=Alex |date=April 13, 2021 |website=7 News |access-date=June 3, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://7news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/magda-szubanski-responds-to-mps-criticism-her-comments-were-appalling-c-2591129 |title=Magda Szubanski Responds to MP's Criticism her comments were 'appalling' |last=Chapman |first=Alex |date=April 14, 2021 |website=7 News |access-date=June 3, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://tvtonight.com.au/2021/04/magda-szubanski-addresses-twitter-controversy.html |title=Magda Szubanski addresses Twitter Controversy |last=Knox |first=David |date=April 15, 2021 |website=TV Tonight |access-date=June 3, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/when-is-it-ok-to-criticise-a-prime-minister-s-spouse-20210430-p57nvj.html |title=When is it OK to Criticise a Prime Minister's Spouse? |last=Maley |first=Jacqueline |date=May 2, 2021 |website=The Age |access-date=June 3, 2021}}

On 14 February 2012, Szubanski came out in a statement supporting same-sex marriage and stated that she "absolutely identifies as gay" in an interview on Australian TV current affairs program The Project.{{Cite news|last=Quinn|first=Karl|date=15 February 2012|title=Gay-gay-gay-gay - Magda comes out|language=en-US|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/gaygaygaygay--magda-comes-out-20120214-1t498.html|access-date=26 September 2017}}{{cite news|date=15 February 2012|title=Magda Szubanski 'absolutely' identifies as gay|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|url=http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/magda-szubanski-absolutely-identifies-as-gay/story-e6frfmyi-1226271137439}} Szubanski has described herself as "culturally Catholic".{{cite news|date=25 December 2013|title=Special interview with actress and comedian Magda Szubanski|language=en-AU|work=Radio National|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/2nd-july-2013/5159598|access-date=26 October 2017}}

Acting

• Won the 'Most Popular Comedy Personality' award at the 1991, 1992 and 1996 Logie awards
• Won the Australian Film Institute's award 'Best Actress in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama' award in 2002{{Cite web|url=http://www.afi.org.au/awards/pastwinners/Television%20Award%20Winners%201986-2006.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128222933/http://www.afi.org.au/awards/pastwinners/Television%20Award%20Winners%201986-2006.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Australian Film Institute, Past Winners, Television 1986–2006|archive-date=28 November 2007|access-date=20 November 2020}}
• Nominated 'Best Family Actress' OFTA Film Awards 1999
• Nominated for the 'Most Popular Actress' award at the 2005 Logie Awards, for her role in Kath & Kim
• Nominated for 'Best Actress in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama or Comedy' award in 2003 at the AFI Awards
• Nominated for 'Best Actress in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama or Comedy' award in 2004 at the AFI Awards
• Nominated for 'Best Female actor in a Musical' at the 2006 Helpmann Awards for her role in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• Nominated for 'Female Actor in a Featured Role' at the 2006 Green Room Awards for her role in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• Nominated Silver Logie 'Most Popular Actress' in Kath & Kim 2008
• Nominated for 'Best Actress Supporting Role' Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards 2014 for Goddess

Writing

• Winner – Awgie Award for sketch comedy Big Girl's Blouse
• Winner – Awgie Award Fast Forward Writing team best Comedy/Revue/Sketch, 1990, 1991
• Winner, Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, 2016 award
• Winner, Book of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2016 award
• Winner, Biography of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2016 award
• Winner, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2016 award
• Winner, Indie Award for Non-Fiction, 2016 award
• Winner, Victorian Community History Award Judges' Special Prize, 2016 award
• Shortlisted, Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards, 2016 award
• Shortlisted, Dobbie Literary Award, 2016 award
• Shortlisted, National Biography Award, 2016

Other

• Winner, Liberty Voltaire Award for Free Speech, 2018{{Cite web|url=https://libertyvictoria.org.au/content/voltaire-2018-magda-szubanski|title=Voltaire Award – Magda Szubanski {{!}} Liberty Victoria|website=libertyvictoria.org.au|access-date=2019-04-26}}
• Winner, Excellence in Women's Leadership Victoria, 2018{{Cite web|url=https://www.wla.edu.au/magdaszubanski.html|title=2018 State Award Winner Magda Szubanski|website=www.wla.edu.au|access-date=2019-04-26}}
• Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), 2019
• Nominated, Victorian Australian of the year, 2017{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-23/samuel-johnson-magda-szubanski-nominees-australian-of-year-vic/9075280|title=Samuel Johnson, Magda Szubanski among Victoria's Australian of the Year nominees|last=Hair|first=Jonathan|date=2017-10-23|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-04-29}}
• Australia Post, Australian Legends of Comedy stamp series, 2020{{Cite web|title=Australian Legends of Comedy|url=https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/stamp-issues/australian-legends-of-comedy|access-date=2021-02-15|website=Australia Post Collectables|language=en}}

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• Quinn, Karl: [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/12/1063341759464.html The Magda carta], The Age, 14 September 2003.
• Quinn, Karl: Brand Magda Unlikely to Suffer for Coming Out, [http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/brand-magda-unlikely-to-suffer-for-coming-out-20120215-1t6cq.html The Sydney Morning Herald], 16 February 2012
• Cadzow, Jane: [http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/magda-szubanski-unmasked-20150904-gjfbnk.html Good Weekend], 19 September 2015
• Rieden, Juliette: [http://www.aww.com.au/latest-news/in-the-mag/magda-szubanski-finally-im-who-im-meant-to-be-27896 Finally I'm Who I'm Meant to Be], 6 July 2016

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Category:21st-century Australian LGBTQ people

Category:AACTA Award winners

Category:Australian women comedians

Category:Australian film actresses

Category:Australian musical theatre actresses

Category:Australian television actresses

Category:Australian voice actresses

Category:Australian game show hosts

Category:Comedians from Melbourne

Category:Australian people of English descent

Category:Australian people of Irish descent

Category:Australian people of Polish descent

Category:Australian people of Scottish descent

Category:Actresses from Liverpool

Category:Audiobook narrators

Category:Australian lesbian actresses

Category:Lesbian comedians

Category:Living people

Category:Logie Award winners

Category:Officers of the Order of Australia

Category:University of Melbourne alumni

Category:20th-century English women

Category:20th-century English people

Category:21st-century English women

Category:21st-century English people

Category:Australian LGBTQ comedians

Category:Comedians from Liverpool

Category:English women comedians