Sigrid Thornton
Sigrid Thornton’s mum died less than a year ago. Now she’s in a play about motherhood
The star is embracing the ‘sometimes very painful’ process of performing in a powerful show about a mother who is a force of nature.
- Kerrie O'Brien
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When three young actors stepped forward to take their curtain calls for The Seagull last month, not even Russian playwright Anton Chekhov could have dreamt up the drama that would follow.
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Sigrid Thornton’s golden rule for acting success
The award-winning actor on her long career – including a play that had 10 love-making scenes.
- Benjamin Law
Australian film director George Miller, of Man From Snowy River fame, dies
Though he was destined always to be known as “the other George Miller”, he was one of this country’s most commercially successful filmmakers.
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Small boobs and a secret lover? Sigrid Thornton tells the whole truth
For someone who has been in the public eye for 50-plus years, a favourite of women’s magazines and tabloids, Thornton has had some doozies printed about her.
- Louise Rugendyke
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