page_title: Magda Szubanski
hierarchical_section_title: Magda Szubanski
caption_attribution_description: Magda Szubanski on Tropfest 2013
context_page_description: Magdalene Mary Szubanski AO is an Australian television and film actress, comedian and writer.
  Szubanski's career started as a writer and performer of sketch comedy and has since progressed to production of TV, film acting, and musical theatre. She starred in Fast Forward, Kath & Kim where she played Sharon Strzelecki, and in the films Babe and Babe: Pig in the City as Esme Hoggett.
  In 2015, she released her memoir Reckoning.
  She has twice been polled as Australia's most recognised and trusted personality.
  In 2017, she became one of the most prominent faces of the same-sex marriage campaign in Australia and the co-chair of Australian Marriage Equality rated her crucial in the success of the "Yes" campaign.
  On 26 January 2019, Szubanski was appointed an officer in the general division of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the performing arts as an actor, comedian and writer, and as a campaigner for same-sex marriage.
context_section_description: Magdalene Mary Szubanski AO (/ʒəˈbænski/ zhə-BAN-skee, born 12 April 1961) is an Australian television and film actress, comedian and writer.
  Szubanski's career started as a writer and performer of sketch comedy and has since progressed to production of TV, film acting, and musical theatre.  She starred in Fast Forward, Kath & Kim where she played Sharon Strzelecki, and in the films Babe (1995) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998) as Esme Hoggett.
  In 2015, she released her memoir Reckoning.
  She has twice been polled as Australia's most recognised and trusted personality.
  In 2017, she became one of the most prominent faces of the same-sex marriage campaign in Australia and the co-chair of Australian Marriage Equality rated her crucial in the success of the "Yes" campaign.
  On 26 January 2019, Szubanski was appointed an officer (AO) in the general division of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the performing arts as an actor, comedian and writer, and as a campaigner for same-sex marriage.
caption: Szubanski at Tropfest 2013
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