Danielle Cormack: growing up on screen...

Danielle Cormack began acting on stage, then won a coveted role on popular 80s soap Gloss while still in her teens. She went on to a one year stint at the launch of Shortland Street. Cormack acted in both the TV show and movie versions of Topless Women Talk About Their Lives; her pregnancy was incorporated into the storyline. Cormack's other work includes movie The Price of Milk and extended runs on Australian TV hits Rake and Wentworth.

In this ScreenTalk, Cormack talks about:

• Growing into womanhood while appearing on Gloss
• Playing lovable nurse Alison Rayner on Shortland Street
• Being one of the first of the original cast to leave the soap
• Not always enjoying the intensity of Xena: Warrior Princess fans
• How becoming pregnant in real life changed Topless Women Talk About Their Lives
• Giving birth on-screen, a week after giving birth in real life
• Why Channelling Baby was one of her favourite movie experiences
• Working with a deliciously naughty cast and a crazy director on Separation City
• Feeling isolated on the set of The Cult

This video was first uploaded on 22 March 2010, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside