![]() ![]() ![]() Downie played the title character in Euripides' Helen at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 2009. In 2008, she played opposite David Tennant and Patrick Stewart as Gertrude, in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet which was subsequently adapted for BBC television and aired in late 2009. She appeared in the premiere of Nick Dear's play The Art of Success in Stratford in 1986 and later at the Barbican Theatre, London, alongside Michael Kitchen and Simon Russell Beale. She is an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company where she has played roles such as Lady Anne in Richard III in the 1984 production featuring Antony Sher in the lead, and Hermione and Perdita in The Winter's Tale. She is also an accomplished stage actress. She also appeared in The Girl in the Cafe, alongside Bill Nighy, Kelly Macdonald and Anton Lesser. Other UK TV credits include: Inspector Morse, Kavanagh QC, The Cazalets, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Spooks, Trial & Retribution, New Street Law, Agatha Christie's Poirot, The Ice House, Lost for Words and New Tricks. In 1984 she appeared as Dee Rogers in the Minder episode "If Money Be the Food of Love, Play On". She moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1980s. After graduation she appeared in TV series such as The Box, Bellbird, The Sullivans, Prisoner and Learned Friends. She trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Sydney. Downie was a student of theatre director, Joan Whalley. She began her career in Australia, initially in Brisbane at Twelfth Night Theatre and Brisbane Arts Theatre. ![]()
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