page_title: Loene Carmen
section_title: Film
hierarchical_section_title: Loene Carmen / Film
caption_attribution_description: English: Loene Carmen as 'Sallie Anne Huckstepp' in 1995 Australian TV police corruption docu-drama 'Blue Murder'
context_page_description: Lo Carmen is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and actress. Carmen has independently released six solo albums in the Americana alt-country indie rock vein.
context_section_description: Carmen was discovered at sixteen working in a Kings Cross pizza bar and cast as the "wild and haunted" Freya Olson in John Duigan's The Year My Voice Broke (1987). Her performance, and that of her co-stars Noah Taylor and Ben Mendelsohn, was described as "deeply memorable, central characters [that] are played by a trio of fine actors in the formative stages of their careers". She was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actress award for her role as Freya, 'arguably one of Australian cinema's most finely developed female characters, evoking the subtle shades of a burgeoning womanliness.'Ben Mendelsohn calls it 'one of the greatest films I have made'. Other notable roles followed including Australian prostitute/whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp in the docudrama Blue Murder and Christine in Alkinos Tsilimidos' gritty drama Tom White, for which she also received nominations for Australian Film Institute Best Supporting Actress, Film Critics Circle Best Actor – Female 2004 and IF Awards Best Actress 2004. In 2011, director Kriv Stenders brought Carmen and Noah Taylor together again in Australian film Red Dog, which was described in the Australian as a "warm-hearted and thoroughly entertaining movie". When asked whether she prefers film or music, Carmen explains 'Making and working on music is my lifeblood and what I do every day but acting is also second nature to me. They are pretty intrinsically linked in my mind – both require commitment to getting a feeling or a character across, they just use different tools.'
caption: Loene Carmen as 'Sallie Anne Huckstepp' in 1995 Australian TV police corruption docu-drama 'Blue Murder'
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