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Loene Carmen

Acting Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 14 credits

Biography

Loene Carmen is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, author and actress.

Carmen was discovered at sixteen working in a Kings Cross pizza bar and cast as the "wild and haunted" Freya Olson in John Duigan's The Year My Voice Broke (1987). She was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actress award for her role as Freya, 'arguably one of Australian cinema's most finely developed female characters, evoking the subtle shades of a burgeoning womanliness.'

Carmen is the daughter of rock-jazz-blues pianist Peter Head, founder of The Mount Lofty Rangers. She had a daughter, singer-songwriter Holiday Sidewinder, in 1990, while in a relationship with American bullfighter Jeremy Sparks. She married actor Aden Young since 2014 and they have two children.

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Known for

E Street

as Mandy

The Flying Doctors

as Stacey Smith

Wildside

as Naomi Brown
Film

3:10 to Yuma

as Ruby Irani
Film

L'Avventura

as Sallie-Anne Huckstepp
Film

Red Dog

as Maureen

Full filmography

  • E Street (1989) as Mandy
  • The Flying Doctors (1986) as Stacey Smith
  • Wildside (1997) as Naomi Brown
  • East West 101 (2007) as Ruby Irani
  • Twisted Tales (1996) as Katie
  • Blue Murder (1995) as Sallie-Anne Huckstepp
  • Red Dog (2011) as Maureen
  • Strange Planet (1999) as Amy
  • The Year My Voice Broke (1987) as Freya Olsen
  • Praise (1999) as Cathy
  • The Nostradamus Kid (1993) as Meryl
  • Tom White (2004) as Christine
  • Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer (1988) as Waitress
  • The Singer and the Swinger (1998) as Ginchy Girl