# Roxane Wilson

Roxane Wilson (born 1965) is a South African actress best known for her roles in Water Rats, Stingers and The Alice. She was born in Durban, South Africa to an Italian mother and an English father. She lives in Los Angeles with her children.

## Early life

Wilson was born in Durban, South Africa in 1965, to an Italian mother and an English father. Her father was also an actor, who trained at the Old Vic in London.
In 1972, Roxane moved with her mother to Sydney, via London. Her stepfather is Ian 'Peewee' Wilson, leader and founding member of the Australian rock and roll band The Delltones.
After a couple of years in suburban Sydney, touring with the band, her family moved to Eungai Creek, New South Wales on the mid-north coast, where they maintained a fifty-acre farm, growing organic vegetables.

## Career

Wilson began her career at an early age with modelling. In 1981 she signed with the Chadwick Models agency in Sydney. She also joined the Rocks Players drama school, paying for her studies with earnings from modelling. In 1983 she relocated to New York for three years, where she signed with Wilhelmina Models and travelled the world modelling. During her time in New York she studied acting at HB Studio and the Meisner technique with Robert Modica.
On her return to Australia in 1990, Wilson began her career as a professional actress, playing the lead female role in the television series Family and Friends. In 1991 she relocated to Perth and furthered her craft by studying acting at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts She graduated in 1993 with a Diploma of Performing Arts, before returning to Sydney, where she worked extensively in film, television and theatre.
She had leading stage roles in Noel Coward's Private Lives, Practical Mamet, Edward Albee’s Finding the Sun and Freak Winds. She also had significant roles in the television series Water Rats, The Alice, and the film Punishment. She had a guest role Home and Away, and appeared in the films Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997) alongside Miranda Otto, Paperback Hero (1999) with Hugh Jackman and independent film Black & White & Sex (2011).
In 2014 she appeared in the Australian Theatre Company's Los Angeles production of Holding the Man opposite Cameron Daddo, Adam J. Yeend and Nate Jones. The production was directed by Larry Moss and received strong critical praise.
She has also worked as a tutor and as a private acting coach at Screenwise and ATYP.

## Personal life

In 2001 Wilson married fellow actor Grant Bowler. They relocated to Los Angeles not long afterwards, to further their respective acting careers. Wilson became pregnant with their first child and subsequently focussed on being a full time mother to daughter Edie. During a return to Sydney in 2005, their son Ezekiel was born.
Wilson and Bowler divorced in 2011, and Wilson returned to Los Angeles with her children in 2012, where she now lives.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1989 | Azzedene | Azzedene | Short film |
| 1992 | Loose Ends | Lee | Short film |
| 1994 | Shadow Chasing | Kate | Short film |
| 1994 | Spare Tires | Helen | Short film |
| 1996 | Three Months in Her Bathroom | Carmen | |
| 1998 | Reflections | Helen Stacey | |
| 1997 | The Final Squeak | The Girl Friend | Short film |
| 1999 | True Colours | Helen | Short film |
| 1998 | Erskineville Kings | Eve | |
| 1999 | The Heroes | Charlotte | Short film |
| 1999 | Change of Heart | Anne | |
| 2000 | The Day Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon | Tracey | |
| 2000 | A Once Smiling Woman | Girl in Shop | Short film |
| 2001 | Lucky Blue | Angel | Short film |
| 2007 | Punishment | Marie Rogen | |
| 2010 | Mrs Wright | Mrs Wright | Short film |
| 2011 | Black and White and Sex | Angie 4 | |
| 2010 | Emily | Jane | Short film |
| 2010 | Spirit-Ed | Mrs Jones | Short film |
| 2015 | Molly's Method | Molly Mayer | Short film |
| 2015 | Crushed | Sophie Rose | |
| 2015 | Brentwood Strangler | Sasha Green | Short film |
| 2019 | Dark Whispers: Volume 1 | Hannah Wieldance | Anthology film |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1990 | Family & Friends | Jennifer Chandler | TV series |
| 1995 | Echo Point | Coral O'Connor | 130 episodes |
| 1996 | Police Rescue | Tessa | Season 5, episode 9: "The Only Constant" |
| 1996 | Common Law | Karen | |
| 1997 | Big Sky | Robbie Manning | Season 1, 13 episodes |
| 1998 | Wildside | Marilyn O'Connor | Season 1, episode 33 |
| 1998 | Murder Call | Kristen Charlton | Season 2, episode 9: "Dead Fall" |
| 1998–1999 | Water Rats | Suzi Abramovich | Seasons 3–4, 6 episodes |
| 1999 | Beastmaster | Atlanta | Season 1, episode 16: "A Devil's Deal" |
| 2000–2002 | Stingers | Daniella Mayo | Seasons 3–6, 69 episodes |
| 2004 | The Alice | Ellie Delaney | TV movie |
| 2005–2006 | The Alice | Ellie Delaney | Season 1, 22 episodes |
| 2008 | Outrageous Fortune | Candice Fletcher | Season 4, episode 8: "Guilty Creatures" |
| 2008 | Out of the Blue | Angela Mulroney | Season 1, 17 episodes |
| 2009 | Rescue: Special Ops | Chantelle Gregory | Season 1, 2 episodes |
| 2010 | Send in the Dogs | Narrator | |
| 2010 | City Homicide | Myra Rawlings | Season 4, episode 22: "Empowerment" |
| 2011 | Home and Away | Laura Carmody | 16 episodes |
| 2013 | Wonderland | Kate | Season 1, episode 12: "Gary Marriage" |
| 2020 | Deadhouse Dark | Coach Iris Sloane | Season 1, episode 2: "No Pain No Gain" |

## Stage

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1988 | Suddenly Last Summer | Miss Holly | The Drama Studio, Sydney |
| 1988 | Territorial Rites | Genevieve | The Drama Studio, Sydney |
| 1992 | Just Genes | Performer | Also co-writer |
| 1992 | The Greeks | Helen of Troy | |
| 1992 | The Dining Room | 8 characters | |
| 1992 | A Month in the Country | Natalia Petrovna | |
| 1993 | Red Noses | Mother Metz & others | |
| 1993 | A Dream Play | Keeper / Alice | |
| 1993 | Bumpy Angels | Blanche | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts |
| 1993 | Lady Windermere's Fan | Lady Plymdale | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts |
| 1993 | Bobbin' Up | Jeanie / Violet / Rita | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts |
| 1993 | The Taming of the Shrew | Hortensio | |
| 1994 | Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead | Gertrude | |
| 1994 | Private Lives | Amanda Prynne | NSW tour |
| 1998 | Practical Mamet | Various | PAWA, Stables Theatre, Sydney |
| 1999 | Finding the Sun | Cordelia | Swell Productions |
| 2000–2001 | Freak Winds | Myra | Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney with Tamarama Rock Surfers |
| 2014 | Holding the Man | Mary-Gurt / Lois / Various | Matrix Theatre, Los Angeles with Australian Theatre Company |