![]() I really enjoyed the times when we were neutral, and we weren’t trying to come to a final product, but we were just experimenting inside the school. Having said that, it was great to be able to hide away and experiment with styles and different movement-based work and go right to the foundation of body and voice, and what that is. Actors vary in how valuable they find drama school, but how did you find your time there? You got into The Victorian College Of The Arts. I remember one of my lecturers gave me back an essay that I’d written and said, ‘You act much better than you write.’ And I thought, ‘Yep, I should probably try out for drama school, because it doesn’t seem like an academic life is where I’m heading.’ I really appreciated that frankness actually!” I was also making costumes, and I was involved in productions. When I went to high school, I joined up with a drama society and ended up winning the drama prize and pretty much only doing that. ![]() “I was really interested in that conversation, and I’d been telling stories as a ballet dancer since I was four. Were you just interested in that world, or did you know then that you wanted to be an actor? You studied film and theatre at The University Of New South Wales. You actually get to learn something and take a few risks.” But it’s a pleasure because momentum is a very important factor in an actor’s life. “It was certainly a year when I was barely home! That was pretty intense, especially with two young kids and trying to be present for them too. It seems to have been a hectic past couple of years for you… ![]() Dusseldorp has continually flitted between the stage and screen (with a resume that also boasts work on Praise, Innocence, Burning Man, and the Blackjack telemovies), and FilmInk catches the busy actress – warm and charismatic – during rare downtime. While this list of credits has seen Dusseldorp break out on the small screen in a big way, the actress is also one of our country’s finest stage performers, evidenced by the fact that she was one of just twelve invited to join The Sydney Theatre Company’s prestigious ensemble, The Actors Company. She’s proven the graceful centre of the hit period series, A Place To Call Home a worthy foil to Guy Pearce in the Jack Irish series of crime telemovies and impressively reprised her role from Crownies as a tenacious Senior Crown Prosecutor for the legal thriller, Janet King, the second series of which is released on DVD and Blu-ray this week. For anyone serious about quality local television, Marta Dusseldorp is likely to be a familiar face, having landed a trio of plum roles in the past couple of years.
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