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Andrea Demetriades…

Since graduating from NIDA in 2006, Andrea, originally from Western Australia, has worked consistently in film, television and theatre.

Feature films include the title female role in Alex & Eve (directed by Peter Andrikidis), as well as roles in Around the Block (directed by Sarah Spillane) and Nerve (directed by Sebastien Guy). Television includes a leading role in Seven Types of Ambiguity recently for the ABC, Janet King (Series 1, 2 & 3), and Crownies also for the ABC, The Principal (SBS), and guest roles in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (ABC), Mr & Mrs Murder (Network 10) Think Tank and All Saints (Seven Network).

Andrea also had a recurring role in the web series Fragments of Friday and has appeared in the Presto series, Talk About. Andrea has worked in theatre across the country including leading roles in Antigone for Sport for Jove; Arcadia, Arms and the Man, Perplex and Pygmalion for Sydney Theatre Co; The Dog/The Cat, The Book of Everything, Oedipus Rex for Belvoir Theatre; A Beautiful Life for Riverside; Intimate Letters, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Pericles for Bell Shakespeare Co; Helly's Magic Cup for the State Theatre Company of South Australia and Winter for the Griffin Theatre Company.

Andrea received the Best Female Actor in a Leading Role in an Independent Production at the recent 2016 Sydney Theatre Awards for her role in Antigone; in 2016, and was a recipient for the Equity Ensemble Award for Most Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in the television series The Principal. She also received a nomination for the Inaugural 2016 Casting Guild of Australia Sirius Best Actress Award: Rising Star, as well as a nomination for the 2016 GLUGS Theatre Awards for Best Actress (Sydney Theatre Company/Arms and the Man); a 2014 Equity Ensemble nomination for Most Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Television Drama Series (ABC/Janet King); a 2012 Equity Ensemble Nomination for Most Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Television Drama Series (ABC/Crownies); a 2010 Green Room Theatre nomination for Best Actress (Bell Shakespeare Company/Twelfth Night); and the 2009 Green Room Theatre nomination for Best Actress (Bell Shakespeare/Pericles)

… as Dr Lou Tannis

Lou is a talented surgeon, but will her emotional vulnerability allow her to break into the cutthroat boy's club of surgery? An affair with her boss may put everything she's struggled for at risk.