Loene Carmen

Biography

Loene Carmen is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, author and actress.

Carmen was discovered at sixteen working in a Kings Cross pizza bar and cast as the "wild and haunted" Freya Olson in John Duigan's The Year My Voice Broke (1987). She was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actress award for her role as Freya, 'arguably one of Australian cinema's most finely developed female characters, evoking the subtle shades of a burgeoning womanliness.'

Carmen is the daughter of rock-jazz-blues pianist Peter Head, founder of The Mount Lofty Rangers. She had a daughter, singer-songwriter Holiday Sidewinder, in 1990, while in a relationship with American bullfighter Jeremy Sparks. She married actor Aden Young since 2014 and they have two children.

Known For

E Street

Mandy

The Flying Doctors

Stacey Smith

East West 101

Ruby Irani

Wildside

Naomi Brown

Blue Murder

Sallie-Anne Huckstepp

Red Dog

Maureen

Praise

Cathy

Strange Planet

Amy

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2011	Red Dog	Maureen
2004	Tom White	Christine
1999	Strange Planet	Amy
1999	Praise	Cathy
1998	The Singer and the Swinger	Ginchy Girl
1993	The Nostradamus Kid	Meryl
1988	Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer	Waitress
1987	The Year My Voice Broke	Freya Olsen

Year	TV Show	Role
2007	East West 101	Ruby Irani
1997	Wildside	Naomi Brown
1995	Blue Murder	Sallie-Anne Huckstepp
1989	E Street	Mandy
1986	The Flying Doctors	Stacey Smith