Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 21, 1958
Place of Birth:
Sydney, Australia
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Genevieve Lemon is an Australian actress who has appeared in a number of soap operas – as Zelda Baker in The Young Doctors, Marlene "Rabbit" Warren in Prisoner and Brenda Riley in Neighbours. She showed her comedic and singing talents in the televised revue show Three Men and a Baby Grand.
Lemon has also appeared in a number of films directed by Jane Campion – Sweetie, The Piano and Holy Smoke. She played in the stage production "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – the Musical" as the barmaid and owner of the Broken Hill Hotel, Shirley. Her first CD, with her band, is called "Angels in the City". It is a live recording of a concert she performed in the Studio at the Sydney Opera House as part of the Singing around the House series.
Genevieve Lemon is currently on stage at London's Victoria Palace Theatre, portraying Mrs Wilkinson in Billy Elliot the Musical, a role she performed firstly in Sydney then Melbourne. On 21 January 2008 she won the Best Actress in a Musical award at the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards. Lemon won a 2008 Helpmann Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Billy Elliot the Musical. Lemon has worked extensively for a number of major state theatre companies in Australia.
Lemon began her career with the Leichhardt-based amateur theater company, The Rocks Players.
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Year | Movie | Role |
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2025 | Kangaroo | Bernadette |
2024 | Runt | Dolly Shearer |
2023 | The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race | Barb |
2022 | Ticket to Paradise | Beth-Ann |
2022 | Here Out West | Nancy |
2021 | The Power of the Dog | Mrs. Lewis |
2021 | Sweet River | Elenor Drake |
2018 | Acute Misfortune | Geneviève Lemon |
2018 | Ladies in Black | Mrs. Wentworth |
2015 | Redfern Now: Promise Me | Dr Linda |
2008 | 8 | Pam Garner (segment "The Water Diary") |
2008 | The Adventures of Charlotte and Henry | Charlotte's Mum / Henry's Mum / Madame (voice) |
2007 | To Each His Own Cinema | Bug (segment: The Lady Bug) |
2006 | Suburban Mayhem | Auntie Diane |
2006 | The Water Diary | |
2006 | Making Sweetie | Self |
2003 | The Postcard Bandit | Nola |
1999 | Soft Fruit | Josie |
1999 | Holy Smoke | Rahi |
1997 | The Well | Jen Bordern |
1995 | Billy's Holiday | Julie |
1993 | The Piano | Nessie |
1992 | Big ideas | Beth Draper |
1989 | Sweetie | Dawn 'Sweetie' |
Cruel Hands | Lucille |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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2024 | Population 11 | Valerie Hogarth |
2024 | Return to Paradise | Madge Woodburne |
2023 | Totally Completely Fine | Lorraine Mathews |
2022 | The Tourist | Sue |
2022 | Colin from Accounts | Jenny |
2021 | Eden | Fiona Palmer |
2019 | Frayed | Shirley |
2015 | The Secret River | Mrs. Herring |
2013 | Top of the Lake | Bunny |
2001 | Always Greener | Loretta |
1988 | Home and Away | Hazel Easton |
1987 | Rafferty's Rules | Julie |
1986 | The Flying Doctors | Libby |
1976 | The Young Doctors |