Rachael Blake

Rachael Blake is an Australian actress born in Perth, Western Australia, who trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art after being accepted at nineteen. She began on Australian television in Home and Away and Heartbreak High before her first feature role in the children's film Paws (1997). Playing Dr Maxine Summers in the crime drama Wildside brought her an Australian Film Institute award for best lead actress in a television drama in 1998 and a Silver Logie for most outstanding actress in 1999. She won further AFI recognition as a supporting actress for Lantana (2001), and took best actress prizes at the Fantasporto and Pacific Meridian festivals for Perfect Strangers. Later work includes the British comedy Suburban Shootout and the films Melody, which earned her a best actress award at the Montreal World Film Festival, and Gods of Egypt (2016).