Robyn Nevin

{{short description|Australian actress (born 1942)}}

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

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Robyn Nevin

| honorific_suffix = AO

| image = Robyn Nevin 2013.jpg

| caption = Nevin in 2013

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1942|9|25}}

| birth_place = Melbourne, Australia

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1962–present

| death_date =

| death_place =

| spouse = {{marriage|Jim McNeil|1975|1977|end=divorced}}

| partner = Nicholas Hammond (1987–present)

| children = 1

|education = National Institute of Dramatic Art (BFA)

}}

Robyn Anne Nevin {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (25 September 1942) is an Australian actress recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. Former head of both the Queensland Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company, she has directed more than 30 productions and acted in more than 80 plays, collaborating with internationally renowned artists, including Richard Wherrett, Simon Phillips, Geoffrey Rush, Julie Andrews, Aubrey Mellor, Jennifer Flowers, Cate Blanchett and Lee Lewis.{{cite news | url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/robyn-nevin-she-who-must-be-obeyed/2006/02/23/1140563906152.html |work=The Sydney Morning Herald| title=Robyn Nevin: she who must be obeyed | date=25 February 2006 | access-date=2 July 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924195235/http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/robyn-nevin-she-who-must-be-obeyed/2006/02/23/1140563906152.html | archive-date=24 September 2015 | url-status=live }}{{Cite news|date=2020-06-08|title=Actress Robyn Nevin among locals awarded Queen's Birthday honour|language=en-AU|work=ABC News|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-08/queens-birthday-honours-robyn-nevin-in-illawarra-shoalhaven/12326938|access-date=2021-12-30}}

Nevin is also known for her roles in films and televisions series, including Water Under the Bridge (1980) as Shasta, role that earned her a Logie Awards and a Penguin Award, Upper Middle Bogan (2014) and Top of the Lake (2014), and international film acting as Councillor Dillard in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (both 2003), and as Edna in the horror film Relic (2020).

Early life

Nevin was born on 25 September 1942 in Melbourne, to Josephine Pauline Casey and William George Nevin. She was educated at Genazzano Convent until the age of 11, when she moved with her family to Hobart, Tasmania, and was enrolled at the Fahan School, a non-denominational school for girls.{{cite encyclopedia| editor = Suzannah Pearce| encyclopedia = Who's Who in Australia Live!| title = Nevin, Robyn|year=2007| publisher = Crown Content Pty Ltd| location = North Melbourne, Vic}} While there, she played the lead in the school's production of Snow White at the Theatre Royal. Her parents were conservative and conventional, her father the managing director of Dunlop Australia, her mother a housewife, so to enter the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at the age of 16 in the very first intake in 1959 was a brave step, in which she was fully supported by her parents.

Career

At the outset of her career, she had a variety of roles in radio and television, working mainly at the Australian Broadcasting Commission, including current affairs, music, chat shows and children's shows throughout the early 1960s. With the Old Tote Theatre Company she acted in The Legend of King O'Malley by Bob Ellis and Michael Boddy in 1970. She gravitated back to theatre, where she has been a constant presence for the last 40 years.

Although theatre has been her home ground she has also starred in numerous Australian films and mini-series, landing many credits for strong supporting roles. She made one foray into directing in The More Things Change... (1986).{{IMDb title|0092080|The More Things Change...}}

In 1996 she became artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company, a position which she held with great success, rescuing the company from bankruptcy and leaving it flourishing in 1999, when she took over the position of artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company, where she was artistic director until the end of 2007, having created such memorable additions as The Actor's Company, the only professional repertory company in the nation, and the hugely successful Wharf Revue.{{cite web|title=Sydney Theatre Company|url=http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/content.asp?cID=44|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516191833/http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/content.asp?cID=44|archive-date=16 May 2011|access-date=2 November 2010|publisher=Sydneytheatre.com.au}}

In 2006 she established The STC Actors Company and directed its debut production of Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. Her other extensive directing credits for Sydney Theatre Company include: Boy Gets Girl (2005), Summer Rain (2005), Scenes from a Separation (2004), Hedda Gabler (2004), Harbour (2004), The Real Thing (2003), A Doll's House (2002) and Hanging Man (2002).

Other directing credits include After the Ball, Honour, Summer Rain and A Month in the Country (Queensland Theatre Company); Kid Stakes, Scenes from a Separation, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and On Top of the World (Melbourne Theatre Company); The Removalists (State Theatre of South Australia) and The Marriage of Figaro (State Opera of South Australia).

Nevin has performed in a range of roles at the Sydney Theatre Company, beginning in 1979 as Miss Docker in A Cheery Soul by Patrick White (reprised in 2001); and also including as Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac in 1981; as Ranyevskaya in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov in 2005; and as Mrs Venable in Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams in 2015.{{cite web|title=STC Magazine Archive: Robyn Nevin|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/magazine/posts/2014/november/archive-robyn-nevin?fptd_mode=validation|publisher=Sydney Theatre Company|access-date=25 February 2015|date=13 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216014305/https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/magazine/posts/2014/november/archive-robyn-nevin?fptd_mode=validation|archive-date=16 December 2019|url-status=live}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Type

rowspan=2|1973

|Libido

|Sister Caroline (segment ‘The Priest’)

|Feature film

Reflections

|

|Film short

1975

|Something Other

|

|Film short

rowspan=3|1976

|Caddie

|Black Eye

|Feature film

Dr. K

|

|Film short

{{sortname|The|Fourth Wish}}

|Connie

|Feature film

rowspan=3|1978

|{{sortname|The|Irishman|The Irishman (1978 film)}}

|Jenny Doolan

|Feature film

Marx

|

|Film short

The Clown and the Mind Reader

|

|Film short

1979

|Temperament Unsuited

|Anne

|Film short

1980

|Tread Softly

|Claire

|Film short

1981

|Letting Go

|

|Film short

1982

|Fighting Back

|Mary

|Feature film

rowspan=2|1983

|Goodbye Paradise

|Kate

|Feature film

Careful, He Might Hear You

|Lila

|Feature film

1984

|{{sortname|The|Coolangatta Gold|dab=film}}

|Robyn Lukas

|Feature film

1988

|Emerald City

|Kate Rogers

|Feature film

rowspan=2|1992

|Resistance

|Wiley

|Feature film

Greenkeeping

|Mum

|Feature film

1994

|Lucky Break

|Anne-Marie LePine

|Feature film

1995

|Angel Baby

|Dr. Norberg

|Feature film

1997

|{{sortname|The|Castle|dab=1997 Australian film}}

|Supreme Court Judge

|Feature film

rowspan=3|2003

|{{sortname|The|Matrix Reloaded}}

|Councillor Dillard

|Feature film

Bad Eggs

|Eleanor Poulgrain

|Feature film

{{sortname|The|Matrix Revolutions}}

|Councillor Dillard

|Feature film

2011

|{{sortname|The|Eye of the Storm|dab=2011 film}}

|Lal

|Feature film

2013

|{{sortname|The|Turning|dab=2013 film}}

|Carol Lang

|Feature film (segment ‘Reunion’)

2015

|Ruben Guthrie

|Susan Guthrie

|Feature film

2016

|Gods of Egypt

|Sharifa

|Feature film

2018

|Death in Bloom

|Mrs. Patterson

|Film short

2020

|Groundhog Night

|Rose

|Film short

2020

| Relic

| Edna

| Feature film

2022

|Lacerate

|Jeanne

|Film short

2023

|The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race

|Joan Bunyan

|Feature film

2024

|Sting

|Gunter

|

TBA

|Fing

|{{TBA}}

|Filming

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1961

|The Outcasts

|

|TV series

1962

|Consider Your Verdict

|Judith Harper

|TV series, 1 episode: "Queen Versus Glandon"

1967

|Bellbird

|

|TV series

1971

|The Comedy Game

|Kate Sullivan

|TV series, 1 episode: "Our Man in Canberra"

rowspan=4|1973

|Our Man in the Company

|Miss Healey

|TV series, 1 episode: "Let Women Go Free"

The Taming of the Shrew

|Barmaid

|TV film

How Could You Believe Me When I Said I'd Be Your Valet When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life?

|

|Teleplay

President Wilson in Paris

|Mrs. Wilson

|Teleplay

rowspan=2|1974

|Matlock Police

|Sue Palmer

|TV series, 1 episode: "Dancing Class"

Ryan

|Susan Davis

|TV series, 1 episode: "Negative Proof"

1974; 1975

|Behind the Legend

|Guest roles

|TV series, 1 episode: "William Bligh" (1974)

1975

|Ben Hall

|

|TV series, 1 episode

1975

|Behind the Legend

|Guest role

|TV series, 1 episode: "ST Gill"

1976

|God Knows Why, But It Works

|Nurse

|Film documentary

1977

|Say You Want Me

|Interviewing Officer

|TV film

1978

|Father, Dear Father

|Mrs. Webster

|TV series, episode 4: "Novel Exercise"

1979

|The Oracle

|

|TV series, 1 episode

rowspan="5" |1980

|Notes on a Landscape

|Herself

|Film documentary

Water Under the Bridge

| Shasta

|TV miniseries, 8 episodes

The Sullivans

| Rachael Dawson

|TV series, 2 episodes

{{sortname|A|Toast to Melba}}

|Nellie Melba

|TV film

Spring & Fall

| Mary

|TV series, Series 1, episode 2: "The Last Card"

rowspan="2" |1981

|Oz '81

|Various characters

|TV series

Degrees of Change

|

|Teleplay

rowspan=2|1982

|The Naked Breast

|Narrator

|Film documentary

Spring & Fall

|Anne

|TV series, Season 2, episode 2:"Perfect Company"

rowspan="2" |1983

|{{sortname|The|Dismissal|The Dismissal (miniseries)}}

|Lady Kerr

|TV miniseries, 3 episodes

For Love or Money

|Herself

|Film documentary

rowspan=2|1984

|Conferenceville

|Dr Cindy Broughton

|TV film

Making 'The Coolangatta Gold'

|Herself (uncredited)

|Film special

1985

|Hanlon

|Minnie Dean

|TV series, episode: "In Defence of Minnie Dean"

rowspan=2|1990

|{{sortname|The|Ham Funeral}}

|Mrs. Goosgog

|Teleplay

Shadows of the Heart

|Mrs. Hanlon

|TV miniseries, 2 episodes

rowspan=2|1993

|Seven Deadly Sins

|Margot

|TV series, episode 3: 'Sloth'

The Burning Piano: A Portrait of Patrick White

|Herself

|TV film

1995–99

|Halifax f.p.

|Angela Halifax

|TV film series, 3 episodes: "The Feeding", "Cradle and All", "A Murder of Crows"

2003

|Enter the Matrix

|Councillor Dillard (voice)

|Video game

rowspan=3|2013-16

|Upper Middle Bogan

|Margaret Denyar

|TV series, 24 episodes

Top of the Lake

|Jude Griffin

|TV series, 4 episodes: "1.1", "1.3", "1.4", "1.5"

{{sortname|The|Broken Shore|The Broken Shore (2014 film)}}

|Cecily Addison

|TV film "3.5", "3.7"

2014

|Rake

|Banking Counsel Assisting

|TV series, 2 episodes

2015

|Stories I Wanted to Tell You in Person

|Anna

|TV film

2016

|Cleverman

|Jane O'Grady

|TV series, episode: "Containment"

2018

|Back in Very Small Business

| Celeste Di Nonno

|TV series, 8 episodes

2019

|Doctor Doctor

| Dinah

| TV series, Season 4, 3 episodes

rowspan=2|2020

|In Creative Company

|Herself

|Podcast series, 1 episode

The End

|Dawn

|TV series, 8 episodes

2021

|The Moth Effect

| Voice of M

|TV series, 1 episode

rowspan=2|2022

|Wolf Like Me

| Gwen

|TV series, 1 episode

God's Favorite Idiot

|Helen

|TV series, 1 episode

2025

|Apple Cider Vinegar

|Alma Hirsch

|TV series, 2 episodes {{Cite web |last=Lapin |first=Andrew |date=2025-02-14 |title=Netflix's 'Apple Cider Vinegar' features a Jewish-run 'cancer clinic.' What is it? |url=https://www.jta.org/2025/02/14/culture/netflixs-apple-cider-vinegar-features-a-jewish-run-cancer-clinic-what-is-it |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}

= Other appearances =

class="wikitable"

|+

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

2015

|The Making of 'Ruben Guthrie'

|Herself / Susan Guthrie

|Video

2012

|Raising the Curtain

|Interviewee

|TV series

2007

|In the Company of Actors

|Herself

|TV special

2003

|Over Easy: On Location With 'Bad Eggs'

|Herself

|Video

rowspan="2" |2001

|Burke's Backyard

|Guest Celebrity Gardener

|TV series, 1 episode

Australian Story

|Herself

|TV series, 1 episode

rowspan="4" |1998

|The Edge of the Possible

|Narrator (voice)

|TV documentary

Witness

|Herself

|TV series, 1 episode

Australian Story

|Herself

|TV series, 1 episode

Denise

|Guest

|TV series, 1 episode

1994

|Ernie and Denise

|Guest

|TV series, 1 episode

1994

|Rites of Passage

|Narrator

|TV documentary

Theatre and musical

= Sydney Theatre Company and other =

Sydney Theatre Company is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales, which performs at The Wharf Theatre, the Roslyn Packer Theatre and the Sydney Opera House. Nevin was associate artistic director from 1984 to 1987, and first artistic director from 1999 to 2007, producing twenty plays. She has also acted in twenty-seven productions of the company.

{{legend|#faecc8|Artistic Director}}

=Theatre=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

! scope="col" |Title

! scope="col" |Years

! scope="col" |Role

! scope="col" |Location

! scope="col" |Notes

scope="row" |Macbeth

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |1980

|

| Nimrod Theatre Company

|

scope="row" |Close of Play

|style="text-align:center;"|Margaret

| rowspan="6" |Sydney Opera House

|Stage musical;
directed by Rodney Fisher

scope="row" |The Precious Woman

|style="text-align:center;"|Su-Ling

|Stage musical;
directed by Richard Wherrett

scope="row" |Cyrano de Bergerac

|style="text-align:center;"|1981

|style="text-align:center;"|Roxanne

|Stage musical;
directed by Richard Wherrett

scope="row" |Macbeth

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |1982

|style="text-align:center;"|Lady Macbeth

|Stage musical;
directed by Richard Wherrett{{Cite book|last=Rayment|first=Colette|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/790a87261614e92fe5d5f517e2c8f50a/1?cbl=1817542&pq-origsite=gscholar|title=Australasian Drama Studies; Vol. 1, Fasc. 1|publisher=University of Queensland Press|year=1982|location=St Lucia, Queensland|pages=120–130|language=en}}

scope="row" |The Perfectionist

|style="text-align:center;"|Barbara

|Stage musical;
written by David Williamson, directed by Rodney Fisher{{Cite web|last=Austlit|title=The Perfectionist {{!}} AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C17382|access-date=2021-12-29|website=www.austlit.edu.au|language=en}}

scope="row" |The Way of the World

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |1983

|style="text-align:center;"|Millamant

|Stage musical;
directed by Richard Wherrett

scope="row" |Present Laughter

|style="text-align:center;"|Gussie

|Theatre Royal

|Stage musical;
written by Noël Coward, directed by Richard Wherrett{{Cite web|date=2014-11-13|title=Archive: Robyn Nevin|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/magazine/posts/2014/november/archive-robyn-nevin|access-date=2021-12-29|website=Sydney Theatre Company|language=en}}

scope="row" |The Perfectionist

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |1984

|style="text-align:center;"|Barbara

|Sydney Opera House

|Stage musical
written by David Williamson, directed by Rodney Fisher

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |The Perfect Mismatch

|style="text-align:center;"|–

| rowspan="6" |Wharf Theatre

|Stage musical;
writer and director

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Heartbreak House

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |1985

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical;
writer and director

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Family Favourites

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical;
writer and director

scope="row" |Mixed Doubles

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |1986

|style="text-align:center;"|Queen Dollallola

|Stage musical;
directed by Michael Scott-Mitchell{{Cite web|date=2015-08-18|title=Archive: Michael Scott-Mitchell|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/magazine/posts/2015/august/archive-michael-s-m|access-date=2021-12-29|website=Sydney Theatre Company|language=en}}

scope="row" |The Seagull

|style="text-align:center;"|Arkadina

|Stage musical;
directed by Jean-Pierre Mignon

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Siesta in a Pink Hotel

| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |1987

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical;
writer and director

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |The Philadelphia Story

|style="text-align:center;"|–

| rowspan="4" |Sydney Opera House

|Stage musical;
writer and director{{Cite web|date=2015-09-08|title=Archive: John Howard|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/magazine/posts/2015/september/archive-john-howard|access-date=2021-12-29|website=Sydney Theatre Company|language=en}}

scope="row" |Emerald City

|style="text-align:center;"|Kate

|Stage musical;
written by David Williamson, directed by Richard Wherrett

scope="row" |Tom & Viv

|style="text-align:center;"|Viv

|Stage musical;
directed by Aubrey Mellor

scope="row" |Woman in Mind

|style="text-align:center;"|Susan

|Stage musical;
written by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Richard Wherrett

scope="row" |Big and Little

|style="text-align:center;"|1988

|style="text-align:center;"|Lotte

| rowspan="6" |Wharf Theatre

|Stage musical;
directed by Harald Clemen{{Cite web|date=2011-11-08|title=Archive: Big and Little, in 1988|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/magazine/posts/2011/november/archive-big-and-little,-in-1988|access-date=2021-12-29|website=Sydney Theatre Company|language=en}}

scope="row" |The Ham Funeral

|style="text-align:center;"|1989

|style="text-align:center;"|First Lady

|Stage musical;
directed by Neil Armfield{{Cite web|title=The Ham Funeral, The Wharf Theatre, Sydney, NSW, 14 November 1989|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/2017|access-date=2021-12-29|website=www.ausstage.edu.au}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |The Removalists

|style="text-align:center;"|1991

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical;
director

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |The Girl who saw Everything

|style="text-align:center;"|1992

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical;
director{{Cite book|last=Perkins|first=Elizabeth M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Skrz5plxWwC&dq=1992+THE+GIRL+WHO+SAW+EVERYTHING+Robyn+Nevin+Sydney+Theatre+Company&pg=PR5|title=The Plays of Alma De Groen|date=1994|publisher=Rodopi|isbn=978-90-5183-764-3|language=en}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |The Recruit

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |1999

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical;
director

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Corporate Vibes

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical;
writer and director

style="background-color:#faecc8;"scope="row" |The Great Man

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |2000

|style="text-align:center;"|–

| rowspan="2" |Sydney Opera House

|Stage musical;
director{{Cite web|last=Austlit|title=The Great Man {{!}} AustLit: Discover Australian Stories|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C125679|access-date=2021-12-29|website=www.austlit.edu.au|language=en}}

scope="row" |Life After George

|style="text-align:center;"|Various characters

|Play;
written by Hannie Rayson, directed by Marion Potts

scope="row" |A Cheery Soul

|style="text-align:center;"|Miss Docker

| rowspan="7" |Wharf Theatre

|Stage musical;
directed by Jim Sharman{{Cite web|title=A Cheery Soul|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/433|access-date=2021-12-29|website=www.ausstage.edu.au}}

scope="row" |Old Masters

|style="text-align:center;"|2001

|style="text-align:center;"|Lillian Fromm

|Stage musical;
directed by Benedict Andrews{{Cite web|date=2012-09-07|title=Archive: Benedict Andrews – Old Masters, starring Jacki Weaver and Robyn Nevin|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/magazine/posts/2012/september/archive-benedict-andrews|access-date=2021-12-29|website=Sydney Theatre Company|language=en}}

scope="row" |The Glass Menagerie

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |2002

|style="text-align:center;"|Amanda Wingfield

|Stage musical;
directed by Jennifer Flowers{{Cite web|date=2002-10-18|title=The Glass Menagerie|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/the-glass-menagerie-20021018-gdfqg4.html|access-date=2021-12-29|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |A Doll's House

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical;
written by Henrik Ibsen{{Cite web|date=2019-06-03|title=Archive: The Fiercest Women on Stage|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/magazine/posts/2019/june/archive-fierce-women|access-date=2021-12-29|website=Sydney Theatre Company|language=en}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Hanging Man

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Major Barbara

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |2003

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |The Real Thing

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical

scope="row" |The Breath of Life

|style="text-align:center;"|Madeleine

|Sydney Opera House

|Stage musical;
written by Sir David Hare, directed by Max Stafford-Clark{{Cite web|date=2003-06-06|title=The Breath Of Life, STC|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/the-breath-of-life-stc-20030606-gdgvto.html|access-date=2021-12-29|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Hedda Gabler

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |2004

|style="text-align:center;"|–

| rowspan="10" |Wharf Theatre

|Stage musical

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Scenes from Separation

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Summer Rain

| rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |2005

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Boy Gets Girl

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical

scope="row" |The Cherry Orchard

|style="text-align:center;"|Ranyevskaya

|Stage musical;
directed by Howard Davies{{Cite web|title=The Cherry Orchard (2005)|url=https://pamela-rabe.com/stage-plays/the-cherry-orchard-2005/|access-date=2021-12-30|website=Pamela-Rabe.com|language=en-US}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Hedda Gabler

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |2006

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical;{{Cite web|title=About Hedda Gabler|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/in-the-company-of-actors/about-hedda-gabler|access-date=2021-12-30|website=Sydney Theatre Company|language=en}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Mother Courage and Her Children

|style="text-align:center;"|–

|Stage musical{{Cite web|last=Simmonds|first=Diana|title=Mother Courage And Her Children|url=http://www.stagenoise.com/review/2006/mother-courage-and-her-children|access-date=2021-12-30|website=www.stagenoise.com|language=en}}

scope="row" |Love Lies Bleeding

|style="text-align:center;"|2007

|style="text-align:center;"|Toinette

|Stage musical;
written by Don DeLillo, directed by Lee Lewis{{Cite web|title=Love-Lies-Bleeding {{!}} Sydney Theatre Company|url=https://www.australianstage.com.au/20070719529/reviews/sydney/love-lies-bleeding-%7C-sydney-theatre-company.html|access-date=2021-12-30|website=www.australianstage.com.au}}

scope="row" |The Women of Troy

|style="text-align:center;"|2008

|style="text-align:center;"|Joan

|Stage musical;
directed by Barrie Kosky{{Cite web|title=The Women of Troy {{!}} Sydney Theatre Company|url=https://www.australianstage.com.au/200809221900/reviews/sydney/the-women-of-troy-%7C-sydney-theatre-company.html|access-date=2021-12-30|website=www.australianstage.com.au|language=en-GB}}

scope="row" |The Year of Magical Thinking

|style="text-align:center;"|2008-2009

|style="text-align:center;"|Joan Didion

|Stage musical;
written by Joan Didion, directed by Cate Blanchett{{Cite web|title=The Year of Magical Thinking {{!}} STC|url=https://www.australianstage.com.au/200804041317/reviews/sydney/the-year-of-magical-thinking-%7C-stc.html|access-date=2021-12-30|website=www.australianstage.com.au|language=en-GB}}

scope="row" |Long Day's Journey into Night

|style="text-align:center;"|2010

|style="text-align:center;"|Mary Tyrone

|Sydney Opera House

|Stage musical;
directed by Andrew Upton{{Cite web|title=Long Day's Journey Into Night {{!}} Sydney Theatre Company|url=https://www.australianstage.com.au/201007063671/reviews/sydney/long-day-s-journey-into-night-%7C-sydney-theatre-company.html|access-date=2021-12-30|website=www.australianstage.com.au}}

scope="row" |Suddenly Last Summer

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |2015

|style="text-align:center;"|Mrs Venable

| rowspan="2" |Wharf Theatre

|Stage musical;
directed by Kip Williams{{Cite web|title=Suddenly Last Summer|url=https://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/whats-on/productions/2015/suddenly-last-summer|access-date=2021-12-30|website=Sydney Theatre Company|language=en}}

scope="row" |King Lear

|style="text-align:center;"|Fool

|Stage musical;
directed by Neil Armfield{{Cite web|title=King Lear {{!}} Sydney Theatre Company|url=https://www.australianstage.com.au/201511307530/reviews/sydney/king-lear-%7C-sydney-theatre-company.html|access-date=2021-12-30|website=www.australianstage.com.au}}

scope="row" |A German Life

| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |2021

|style="text-align:center;"|Brunhilde Pomsel|

| rowspan="2" |Adelaide Festival

|Stage musical;
directed by Neil Armfield{{Cite web|title=A German Life {{!}} Adelaide Festival|url=https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/latest-news/three-minutes-with-robyn-nevin/|access-date=2022-04-07|website=www.adelaidefestival.com.au}}

= Melbourne Theatre Company =

Melbourne Theatre Company is an Australian theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, which performs at the Southbank Theatre, the Arts Centre Melbourne and the Malthouse. Nevin directed four plays in the 90s and she was the artistic director of the company with Pamela Rabe, Aidan Fennessy in 2012.{{cite web |title=Former artistic leadership |url=http://www.mtc.com.au/about/the-company/history/former-artistic-leadership/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014221443/http://www.mtc.com.au:80/about/the-company/history/former-artistic-leadership |archive-date=14 October 2018 |website=Melbourne Theatre Company}} She has also acted in fourteen productions of the company.{{legend|#faecc8|Artistic Director}}

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

! scope="col" |Title

! scope="col" |Years

! scope="col" |Role

! scope="col" |Location

! scope="col" |Notes

scope="row" |Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

| style="text-align:center;" |1984

| style="text-align:center;" |Martha

| rowspan="18" |Arts Centre Melbourne

|Stage musical;
directed by Roger Hodgman

scope="row" |The Cherry Orchard

|style="text-align:center;" |1989

| style="text-align:center;" |Madam Ranevskaya

|Stage musical;
directed by Roger Hodgman

scope="row" |The House of Blue Leaves

| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2" |1990

| style="text-align:center;" |Bunny

|Stage musical;
directed by Roger Hodgman{{Cite web |date=1990-10-27 |title=The House of Blue Leaves |url=https://pamela-rabe.com/pamela-rabe-interview-across-the-great-divide/ |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Pamela-Rabe.com |language=en-US}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |On Top of the World

| style="text-align:center;" |–

|Stage musical;
director{{Cite web |title=On Top of the World |url=https://theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com/on-top-of-the-world/ |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Theatregold |language=en}}

scope="row" |Lady Windermere's Fan - 2

| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3" |1995

| style="text-align:center;" |Lady Windemere

|Stage musical;
directed by Roger Hodgman{{Cite web |title=Lady Windermere's Fan - 2 |url=https://theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com/lady-windermeres-fan-2/ |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Theatregold |language=en}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

| style="text-align:center;" |–

|Stage musical;
director{{Cite web |title=Summer of the Seventeenth Doll |url=https://theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com/summer-of-the-seventeenth-doll/ |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Theatregold |language=en}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Scenes from a Separation

| style="text-align:center;" |–

|Stage musical;
director{{Cite web |title=Scenes from a Separation |url=https://theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com/scenes-from-a-separation/ |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Theatregold |language=en}}

style="background-color:#faecc8;" scope="row" |Kid Stakes

|style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3" |1996

| style="text-align:center;" |–

|Stage musical;
director{{Cite web |title=Theatre Heritage Australia Digital Collection: Kid Stakes (1996) |url=http://digital.theatreheritage.org.au/pages/view.php?search=!last1000&k=&modal=&display=thumbs&order_by=field8&offset=61&per_page=48&archive=&sort=DESC&restypes=&recentdaylimit=&foredit=&ref=495 |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=digital.theatreheritage.org.au}}

scope="row" |A Cheery Soul

| style="text-align:center;" |Miss Docker

|Stage musical;
directed by Neil Armfield{{Cite web |last=Herbert |first=Kate |date=1996-05-07 |title=Kate Herbert Theatre Reviews: A Cheery Soul, May 7, 1996 |url=https://kateherberttheatrereviews.blogspot.com/1996/05/a-cheery-soul-may-7-1996.html |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=Kate Herbert Theatre Reviews}}

scope="row" |Julius Caesar

| style="text-align:center;" |Mark Antony

|Stage musical;
directed by Simon Phillips{{Cite book |last=Meyer-Dinkgrafe |first=Daniel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R_GEAgAAQBAJ&dq=1996+JULIUS+CAESAR+Simon+Phillips+Melbourne&pg=PA216 |title=Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre |date=2003-05-20 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-76787-8 |language=en}}

scope="row" |Master Class

|style="text-align:center;" |1997

| style="text-align:center;" |Maria Callas

|Stage musical;
directed by Rodney Fisher

scope="row" |Amy's View - 2

| style="text-align:center;" |1998

| style="text-align:center;" |Esme Allen

|Stage musical;
directed by Simon Phillips{{Cite web |title=Amy's View - 2 |url=https://theatregold1.mybigcommerce.com/amys-view-2/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=Theatregold |language=en}}

scope="row" |August: Osage County

|style="text-align:center;" |2009

| style="text-align:center;" |Violet Weston

|Stage musical;
directed by Simon Phillips{{Cite web |title=August: Osage County {{!}} Melbourne Theatre Company |url=https://www.australianstage.com.au/200905302593/reviews/melbourne/august-osage-county-%7C-melbourne-theatre-company.html |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=www.australianstage.com.au |language=en-GB}}

scope="row" |The Drowsy Chaperone

| style="text-align:center;" |2010

| style="text-align:center;" |Mrs Tottendale

|Stage musical;
directed by Simon Phillips{{Cite web |date=2010-02-18 |title=THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is a Hit in Australia! |url=https://www.mtishows.com/news/the-drowsy-chaperone-is-a-hit-in-australia |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=Music Theatre International |language=en}}

scope="row" |Apologia

|style="text-align:center;"|2011

| style="text-align:center;" |Kristin Miller

|Stage musical;
directed by Simon Phillips

scope="row" |Queen Lear

|style="text-align:center;"|2012

| style="text-align:center;" |Lear

|Stage musical;
directed by Rachel McDonald{{Cite web |title=Queen Lear {{!}} Stage Whispers |url=https://www.stagewhispers.com.au/reviews/queen-lear |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=www.stagewhispers.com.au}}

scope="row" |Other Desert Cities

|style="text-align:center;"|2013

| style="text-align:center;" |Polly Wyeth

|Stage musical;
directed by Sam Strong{{Cite web |title=Other Desert Cities |url=https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/production-archive/2010-2014/2013-mainstage/otherdesertcities/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=www.mtc.com.au |language=en}}

scope="row" |Neighbourhood Watch

|style="text-align:center;"|2014

| style="text-align:center;" |Ana

|Stage musical;
directed by Simon Stone{{Cite web |title=Neighbourhood Watch |url=https://www.mtc.com.au/plays-and-tickets/whats-on/production-archive/2010-2014/mainstage-2014/neighbourhood-watch/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=www.mtc.com.au |language=en}}

Awards & honours

Nevin has won multiple Helpmann, Green Room and Sydney Theatre Awards for her theatre work. Her Helpmann Awards include Best Female Actor in a Play for Women of Troy, Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Angels in America, and Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical for My Fair Lady.

In 1981, she won the TV Logie award in the 'Best Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie' category for her role as Shasta in Water Under The Bridge on the Ten Network. She had already won Logies as 'Most Popular Female'{{cite web |url=http://www.australiantelevision.net/awards/logie1962_65.html |title=1962–1965 Logie Awards |publisher=Australian Television |date=30 October 1998 |access-date=2 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031041552/http://australiantelevision.net/awards/logie1962_65.html |archive-date=31 October 2010 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.australiantelevision.net/awards/logie1966_69.html |title=1966–1969 Logie Awards |publisher=Australian Television |date=30 October 1998 |access-date=2 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031043411/http://australiantelevision.net/awards/logie1966_69.html |archive-date=31 October 2010 |url-status=live }} in Tasmania in 1965 and 1967 during her stint at the ABC.

On 8 June 1981, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the performing arts.[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/870083 "Robyn Anne Nevin – Member of the Order of Australia"], honours.pmc.gov.au She was promoted to Officer in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for " distinguished service to the performing arts as an acclaimed actor and artistic director, and as a mentor and role model ".{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Robyn Anne Nevin AM|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2006690|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-05|website=It's An Honour}}

In 1999 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tasmania.{{cite web|date=4 May 2010|title=Home – Events & Protocol – University of Tasmania, Australia|url=http://www.utas.edu.au/prue/Unitas/Archive_1999-2003/1999/990906.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060916154116/http://www.utas.edu.au/prue/Unitas/Archive_1999-2003/1999/990906.pdf|archive-date=16 September 2006|access-date=2 November 2010|publisher=Utas.edu.au}}

On 21 January 2004 she gave the Australia Day Address.{{cite web |url=http://www.australiaday.com.au/whatson/australiadayaddress2.aspx?AddressID=14 |title=What's On |publisher=Australia Day |access-date=2 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025155915/http://australiaday.com.au/whatson/australiadayaddress2.aspx?AddressID=14 |archive-date=25 October 2010 |url-status=dead }}

=Film & television awards=

class="wikitable"

!Association

!Year

!Work

!Category

!Result

!Ref.

rowspan="5" |AACTA Awards

| rowspan="1" |1977

| rowspan="1" | The Fourth Wish

|Best Actress in a Lead Role

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |1983

| rowspan="1" | Careful, He Might Hear You

|Best Actress in a Supporting Role

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="2" |2014

| rowspan="1" | Upper Middle Bogan

|Best Performance in a Television Comedy

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" | Top of the Lake

|Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |2018

| rowspan="1" | Back in Very Small Business

|Best Performance in a Television Comedy

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

| rowspan="1" |2021

| rowspan="1" | Relic

|Best Supporting Performance

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="2" |Equity Ensemble Awards

| rowspan="2" |2014

| rowspan="1" | Upper Middle Bogan

|Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" | Top of the Lake

|Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Telemovie/Mini-Serie

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |Film Critics Circle of Australia

| rowspan="1" |1987

| rowspan="1" | The More Things Change

|Best Director

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |Fright Meter Awards

| rowspan="1" |2020

| rowspan="1" | Relic

|Best Supporting Actress

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="3" |Logie Awards

| rowspan="1" |1965

| rowspan="2" |Herself

| rowspan="2" |Tasmania: Most Popular Female

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |1967

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |1981

| rowspan="1" | Water Under the Bridge

|Best Lead Actress in a Single Drama or Mini Series

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |Penguin Award

| rowspan="1" |1981

| rowspan="1" | Water Under the Bridge

| Best Actress

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="2" |Sammy Awards

| rowspan="2" |1981

| rowspan="1" | Water Under the Bridge

| Best Actress in a Television Movie

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" | Water Under the Bridge

| Best Actress in a Television Series/Miniseries

|{{won}}

|

=Theatre awards=

class="wikitable"

!Association

!Year

!Work

!Category

!Result

!Ref.

rowspan="1" |Australian National Theatre Award

| rowspan="1" |1976

| rowspan="1" | Herself

|Best Actress New South Wales

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="5" |Green Room Award

| rowspan="1" |1995

| rowspan="1" | Scenes from A Separation

|Best Director

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |1996

| rowspan="1" | Julius Caesar

|rowspan="2" |Best Actress in a Leading Role

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |1999

| rowspan="1" | Long Day's Journey into Night

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |2008

| rowspan="1" | The Women of Troy

|rowspan="2" |Best Female Performer

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |2009

| rowspan="1" | August: Osage Country

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="8" |Helpmann Award

| rowspan="1" |2005

| rowspan="1" | Hedda Gabler

|Best Direction of a Play

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |2009

| rowspan="1" | The Women of Troy

|rowspan="3" |Best Female Actor in a Play

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |2010

| rowspan="1" | August: Osage Country

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |2012

| rowspan="1" | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |2014

| rowspan="1" | Angels in America

|rowspan="1" |Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |2015

| rowspan="1" | Suddenly Last Summer

|rowspan="1" |Best Female Actor in a Play

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="2" |2017

| rowspan="1" | My Fair Lady

|rowspan="1" |Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" | Herself

|rowspan="1" |JC Williamson Lifetime Achievement

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |Queensland Matilda Award

| rowspan="1" |1997

| rowspan="1" | Herself

|Outstanding Contribution to Queensland Theatre

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="3" |Sydney Critics Circle Award

| rowspan="1" |1987

| rowspan="1" | Herself

|Outstanding Achievement in Theatre

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |1991

| rowspan="1" | Diving for Pearls

|Best Actress in a Leading Role

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |1992

| rowspan="1" | Aristophanes Frog

|Best Actress in a Supporting Role

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards

| rowspan="1" |1998

| rowspan="1" | Herself

|Outstanding Individual Award

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="2" |Sydney Theatre Awards

| rowspan="1" |2006

| rowspan="1" | Summer Rain

|Best Direction in a Musical

|{{won}}

|

rowspan="1" |2011

| rowspan="1" | Neighbourhood watch

|Best Leading Actress of a Mainstage Production

|{{nom}}

|

rowspan="1" |Variety Club Heart Award

| rowspan="1" |1998

| rowspan="1" | Herself

|Stage Award

|{{won}}

|

Personal life

Nevin has been married twice, most notably in her second marriage to "prison playwright" Jim McNeil (1975–1977).{{cite book|title=Wasted: The true story of Jim McNeil, violent criminal and brilliant playwright|first=Ross|last=Honeywill|author-link=Ross Honeywill|publisher=Viking|year=2010|isbn=9781742531205}} She currently lives with her partner, US-born actor and screenwriter Nicholas Hammond. They met when they starred in Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind at the STC in 1987. From her first marriage to Barry Crook, she has a daughter Emily Russell (born 1968) who is also an actor.[http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/memoirs-of-a-mother-divided-20110211-1apvw.html "Memoirs of a mother divided"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718205737/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/memoirs-of-a-mother-divided-20110211-1apvw.html |date=18 July 2018 }} by Steve Dow, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 February 2011

References

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