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DanielleCormack

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Danielle Cormack's naturalistic, seemingly effortless acting style has been showcased on  both sides of the Tasman. After roles in soaps Gloss and Shortland Street, she began a run of big screen starring roles —Topless Women Talk About Their Lives, The Price of Milk and Via Satellite (playing twins). On Australian TV, she has starred as a prisoner (Wentworth), crime lord (Underbelly: Razor), barrister (Rake) and MP (Secret City). 

Screenography

Why We Fight
2024 Director, Producer, Costume Designer Short film
Madam
2024 As: Deziyah Series
Year Of
2023 - 2024 As: Lucinda Pritchard Television
Double Parked
2023 As: Edie Television
Erotic Stories
2023 As: Ginger Series

Biography

Danielle Cormack's career spans more than 35 years of acting in both New Zealand and Australia. Her resume of screen roles ranges from 70s hippies and confused Generation Xers, to barristers and criminals. Cormack's career first hit flight altitude sometime in 1997. After winning a Best Actor Award that year for her work in Harry Sinclair's Topless Women Talk About Their Lives, she quickly followed it with another four features — including rural romance The Price of Milk and a double role in Via Satellite.

Awards

2025 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards
Nominated for Best Short Film: Why We Fight

“Danielle Cormack is a great asset with her appealing performance. She is the centre around which Sinclair weaves a tangled tale of birth, marriages and deaths.”

Screen International critic Allan Hunter, on Topless Women Talk About Their Lives

Related images

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Danielle Cormack as Lucinda in a scene from The Price of Milk.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Karl Urban as Rob and Danielle Cormack as Lucinda in a scene from The Price of Milk.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Danielle Cormack as Lucinda in a scene from The Price of Milk.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Danielle Cormack as Lucinda in a scene from The Price of Milk.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Romance, seventies style: Kevin Smith as Geoff and Danielle Cormack as Bunnie in the movie Channelling Baby.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Danielle Cormack as Bunnie in a scene from Channelling Baby.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Danielle Cormack as Bunnie and Kevin Smith as Geoff in Channelling Baby.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Director Christine Parker with three of the cast of 1999 movie Channelling Baby: Bunny Walters (top), Danielle Cormack and Kevin Smith. 
Photograph by Deborah Faith
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Danielle Cormack in Topless Women Talk about their Lives.
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Behind the scenes on 2009 film Separation CityFrom left, Jodie Rimmer, British actor Rhona Mitra, Danielle Cormack), and Stephanie Paul during a break in filming.
© Separation City Limited.
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A shot from 2009 film Separation City. From left to right: Rhona Mitra as Katrien, Danielle Cormack as Pam, Jodie Rimmer as Joanne, Les Hill as Harry and Joel Edgerton as Simon.
© Separation City Limited
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Pam (played by Danielle Cormack) and Simon (Joel Edgerton) attend a concert, in 2009 movie Separation City.
© Separation City Limited.
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The main cast of Maddigan's Quest, from left to right: Hori Ahipene, Mark Nua, Rachel House, Rose McIver, Olivia Tennet, Tim Balme, Danielle Cormack and Rawiri Pene
©South Pacific Pictures
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The main cast of Maddigan's Quest, from left to right: Danielle Cormack, Olivia Tennet, Mark Nua, Tim Balme, Hori Ahipene and Rachel House.
©South Pacific Pictures