Tammy MacIntosh (born 16 February 1970) is an Australian actress who is perhaps best known for portraying Dr. Charlotte Beaumont in the medical drama All Saints and Jool in the TV series Farscape. She is also known for her roles on television series The Flying Doctors, Police Rescue, Sea Patrol, the television film McLeod's Daughters which led to the acclaimed drama series of the same title, and is currently appearing in role of Kaz Proctor in the prison drama series Wentworth.
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Early and personal life
MacIntosh was born and raised in Perth, where she attended Morley Senior High School, Girrawheen Senior High School and Mount Lawley Senior High School. MacIntosh graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, a division of Edith Cowan University.
MacIntosh is married to Mark Yeats and they have a son, Benjamin.
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Career
MacIntosh started out as a reporter for a children's show C'Mon Kids in South Australia in the late eighties.
MacIntosh has an extensive list of TV credits including The Flying Doctors, Something in the Air, Grass Roots, Stingers, State Coroner, Wildside, McLeod's Daughters, G.P., The Feds III and Chances. She was also a well-known face in her regular role of Kathy in Police Rescue. MacIntosh played a main character in the first season of the BAFTA Award winning BBC show, Jeopardy.
In 1998, MacIntosh appeared in the detective series Good Guys, Bad Guys.
MacIntosh joined the science fiction television series Farscape in late 2000. She was cast as Jool, a young Interion woman. She made her first appearance in the third season episode "Self-Inflicted Wounds Part I: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a". In 2002, MacIntosh was cast as Dr Charlotte Beaumont in the medical drama All Saints. MacIntosh took the role of Charlotte as she the character as a new challenge. She was initially contracted for six weeks. Of Charlotte, MacIntosh commented "she's been empowering to play. I felt much stronger and more confident in who I was than I had in a long time." MacIntosh became one of the show's longest serving cast members.
Macintosh's film and theatre credits include Police Rescue: The Movie, the Melbourne Theatre Company's Shark Fin Soup, the Sydney Theatre Company's Private Lives, the Ensemble Theatre's Blinded by the Sun and Sleeping Beauty.
She had a recurring role on Sea Patrol portraying Commander Maxine "Knocker" White. She also played Doctor Elizabeth "Mac" Macmillan in ABC's crime drama Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and Doctor Amelia Ward in "Episode 9" of Crownies.
MacIntosh was considered for the role of Joan "The Freak" Ferguson in prison drama Wentworth. She later joined the cast in the third season as vigilante Kaz Proctor, alongside actresses Pia Miranda and Libby Tanner.
Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre
References
External links
- Tammy MacIntosh on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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