Jeanette Cronin movie list
Jeanette has worked as an actor in theatre, film and television and now web-series for over thirty years, appearing in seminal Australian films including The Boys and Blackrock. Recent theatre appearances include a National tour of Letters to Lindy where she portrayed Lindy Chamberlain in a production that Lindy herself described as being the most accurate account of her story thus far. Jeanette has also performed in several sell-out seasons of Queen Bette, a one woman show she co-created with director, Peter Mountford about the life of screen legend, Bette Davis.
In 2014 Jeanette began writing for the stage and her first play, Tell Me Again, produced by Eye Of The Storm, premiered at The Old 505 Theatre in December 2014, and in July 2019 received a workshop and rehearsed reading at the Arcola Theatre in London. Jeanette's second play I Hate You My Mother, produced by Real Harpy and Whitebox, premiered at The Old Fitz in January 2017, and her third play I Love You Now premiered at The Eternity Playhouse for Darlinghurst Theatre Company in June 2017.
Jeanette's most recent plays were both shortlisted for major awards in 2020. Rest, which deals with domestic violence in regional Australia was in the final ten nominees for the prestigious Alpine International Playwriting Award and Victim, which explores sexual harassment in the entertainment industry in the time #metoo and social media was among the five nominees for The Silver Gull Playwriting Award.
2020 screen commissions included two projects for streaming: Shattered, starring Belinda Giblin, the Australian component of LockEdown Locked In, an international collaboration reflecting the spike in domestic violence during the COVID 19 pandemic, conceived by award-winning Turkish director, Baris Celiloglu and slated for the Aegean Film Festival and Berlin and London Feminist Film Festivals and winner of Best Original Screenplay, Athens International Art film Festival, 08, 2021, Best Experimental Film at Berlin Indie Film Festival, 05, 2021, Best Poster, Pandemic Film Category, Barcelona International Film Festival 2021 and nominated Best Pandemic Film, Barcelona International Film Festival 2021 and Paradise is Silent for Come To Where I Am-Australia, produced by Critical Stages, Australia and Paines Plough, London.
Jeanette has just contributed an episode to It's Fine, I'm Fine, a funny-sad web-series about therapy with a splash of magic realism, green-lit for production in 2021.
