Gillian Jones
Gillian Jones
as Maureen
A NIDA graduate, Gillian is one of Australia’s most respected actors. She has appeared in some of Australia’s most successful television dramas including Wildside, GP, Cody, The Flying Doctors, Come in Spinner, Rafferty’s Rules, Cop Shop and Homicide.
Since her first film, Heatwave, directed by Phillip Noyce and also starring Judy Davis, Gillian has appeared in such films as Terra Nova, Gillian Armstrong’s Oscar and Lucinda, the experimental What I Have Written and Shame. She also starred in last year’s short feature So Close to Home, which has become a festival hit and has recently been nominated for an AFI Award.
Gillian performed in the original Australian production of Hair and has since amassed an impressive list of theatre credits for all of the country’s major theatre companies. Her most recent stage work includes Company B Belvoir’s international tour of Cloudstreet, Melbourne Theatre Company’s productions of The Glass Menagerie and Cloud Nine (receiving a Green Room Award nomination for the latter) and Far Away for the Sydney Theatre Company.
Gillian works regularly as a principle performer for Australia’s best-known theatre director Neil Armfield. She met Jeremy in the rehearsal room of the original production of Aftershocks.