Cassandra Magrath

{{short description|Australian actress}}

{{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}

{{Infobox person

|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1981}}

|birth_place = Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

|occupation = Actress

|years_active = 1994–present

}}

Cassandra Magrath (born 1981) is an Australian actress. She played Miranda Gibson in the Australian ABC 1998–2000 television series SeaChange and Liz Hunter in the 2005 Australian horror film Wolf Creek.{{cite web|url=http://www.webwombat.com.au/entertainment/movies/wolf-creek-int.htm|title=Cassandra Magrath & Kestie Morassi - Interview|website=Web Wombat|author=Clint Morris|access-date=11 December 2009|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170940/http://www.webwombat.com.au/entertainment/movies/wolf-creek-int.htm|url-status=dead}}

Acting career

Magrath began her acting career aged 11, with a role in the children's television programme Ocean Girl.{{cite web|url=http://titan.plasma.xg8.de:8080/og/bioger.html|title=Biographieen der Schauspieler von OCEAN GIRL}} She also played Charlene in the Australian ABC children's television series The Wayne Manifesto that aired in 1996.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/seachange/cassandr.htm|title=Cassandra Magrath SeaChange website bio|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |access-date=4 October 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007125423/http://www.abc.net.au/seachange/cassandr.htm|archive-date=7 October 2013|url-status=dead}} Magrath also acted as Alison Pi Renfrey in The Crash Zone in 1998. She also appears in The Butterfly Effect video 'Gone', as well as comedy trio Tripod's 'Xbox Song.{{cite web|url=http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/18356|title='Wolf Creek' Star Toplines Horror Thriller 'Vanished' - Bloody Disgusting|website=www.bloody-disgusting.com}} In 2016 she starred in Screen Australia's horror film Scare Campaign, directed by the Cairnes brothers (100 Bloody Acres).[http://if.com.au/2015/02/18/article/Cast-announced-for-new-Cairnes-brothers-feature/EYIEBIBXVN.html Cast announced for new Cairnes brothers feature]

Filmography

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scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

1994–95

| Ocean Girl

| Zoe Kondelos

| TV series

1996-97

| The Wayne Manifesto

| Charlene

| TV series

1998–2000

| SeaChange

| Miranda Gibson

| TV series

1998–2001

| Crash Zone

| Alison Renfrey

| TV series

2002

| Shock Jock

| Stephanie Thom

| TV series

2010

| The Pacific

| Helen

| TV miniseries

rowspan="2" | 2012

| Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

| Myrtle Hill

| TV series, S1E13: King Memses' Curse

Neighbours

| Celeste McIntyre

| TV series

rowspan="2" | 2013

| House Husbands

| Sarah Weats

| TV series, 2 episodes

Winners and Losers

| Cynthia Trengrove

| TV series, 2 episodes

2013-15

| Wentworth

| Hayley Jovanka

| TV series, 7 episodes

2014

| Utopia

| Union Rep

| TV series, 1 episode

2016

| Jack Irish

| Rosie

| TV series, 1 episode

2016

| Moonman

| Sergeant

| TV movie

rowspan="2" | 2018

| Chopper The Untold Story

| Sparks

| TV miniseries, 1 episode

The Cry

| Journo

| TV series, 1 episode

= Film appearances =

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|+

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

rowspan="2" |2022

|The Spy Who Never Dies

|Suzan

|

Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker

|Ellie

|

rowspan="2" |2020

|The Green Door

|Sophia

|

The Unlit

|Claire Nash

|

2019

|The Dustwalker

|Angela

|

2018

|36 Questions

|Lydia

|

rowspan="2" |2017

|Ali's Wedding

|Patient X

|Feature film

Liz Drives

|Ellie

|Short film

2016

|Scare Campaign

|Suze

|Feature film

2015

|Pulitzer

|Cara

|Short film

2011

|Vanished

|Winona Gant

|

2005

|Wolf Creek

|Liz Hunter

|Feature film

Notes

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