Laura Jane Turner

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AWARDS & NOMINATIONS: 2024 Best International Actor ('Curve'), Gru Shorts BR 2022 Equity Foundation & Atlantic Acting School Scholarship Winner 2020 Best Actor in a Feature Film ('In Love with Ally Barker'), Los Angeles Film Awards 2020 Best Actor in a Feature Film ('In Love with Ally Barker'), Royal Wolf Film Awards 2020 Best Actor in a Feature Film ('In Love with Ally Barker'), Festigious International Film Festival 2017 Best Actor ('Curve') - Nomination, St Kilda Film Festival 2015 Best Feature Film ('This Little Piggy'), Los Angeles Film Awards 2013 Lionel Gell Foundation Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts 2012 Irene Mitchell Bequest, Victorian College of the Arts REVIEWS Our Monster's Name is Jerry - Theatre Works, 2025 "★★★★" - Theatre Matters "Turner delivers a powerful, courageous performance." - Our Monster's Name is Jerry - Theatre Matters Curve - Tim Egan, 2016 "★★★★" - Inside Shorts Mag + HorrorNews “It’s a testament to that performance that you feel so much for the character even though you know so little.” - Curve - Cut Print Film “It’s a gruelling, emotionally raw performance that gets under your skin.” - Curve - Cut Print Film "What sells the [film] to us is the performance by Turner." The Movie Buff "Eleven wordless minutes of intense psychological and physical anguish that puts any of the Saw movies to shame." - Flood Magazine Slut - The Burrow, 2020 & Motley Bauhaus, 2024 "★★★★" - TimeOut Melbourne “Laura Jane Turner’s performance is ‘masterful’ and ‘heartbreaking’.” - Keith Gow "Laura Jane Turner fearlessly delivers with disturbing composure." - Theatre Press "Magnificent acting" - Weekend Notes Steppe: A Journey of Unforgetting - Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2015 "★★★★ 1/2" - Robert Chuter "Turner is an absolute standout." - ArtsHub Laura is a Member of the Australian Directors Guild (Full, Emerging) and an Associate Member of Screen Producers Australia. Valid Australian Passport.