Sally McLean

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Sally McLean is a UK trained, Australian based, internationally award-winning stage and screen actor, who has played lead, support and guest roles in film, television and theatre in Australia, the USA and UK. She’s also known for having a bit of thing for Shakespeare. A graduate of The Actors Institute UK, some of Sally’s notable screen acting credits include “Angie Powers” in the BAFTA Award-winning BBC mini series Bootleg, “Stacy” in the AACTA Award-winning ABC TV series Utopia and recurring guest roles of “Miss Giddens” in the AACTA nominated ABC/CBBC TV series The Worst Year of My Life – Again! and “Barb” in the USA Saturn Award nominated Sony/AMC TV series, Preacher opposite Pip Torrens & Christopher Kirby. Predominately working in comedy on screen, Sally is also an experienced dramatic Shakespearean actor with Musical Theatre roots, playing over thirty lead and supporting roles in theatre in both Australia and the UK. Highlights include playing the lead in the UK premiere of the drama Annabel’s Requiem, what is believed to be the first all-female production of Macbeth also in the UK and covering and performing one of the lead roles (as well as being Assistant Director) in the professional Australian premier of the hit off-Broadway musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Acting accolade highlights include being nominated in a field that included Royal Shakespeare Company and Globe Theatre company members for Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role (History) for her “Queen Katherine” in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII for The Show Must Go Online at the Groundlings Choice Awards in the UK, winning Best Actress at the 2025 IOWF in Milan, Italy for playing “Hecate MacFindlay” in Dark Arcadia, winning Best Performer in a Play at the 2024 BroadwayWorld Melbourne Awards for playing “Louise” in the Australian premiere of Only Child at Chapel off Chapel, winning Best Actress in a Web Series for playing “Macbeth” in Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage (The Lockdown Chronicles) at the 2021 Unrestricted View Film Festival in the UK and winning Best Actress at the 2022 Andromeda Film Festival in Turkey. Full bio: https://sallymclean.com/about-sally/ FULL CLIP LIBRARY OF WORK: https://sallymclean.com/videos-reels/ Selected press quotes: “McLean plays four other characters who serve to interrupt, comment on and move the action along. Her reading of the sleazy bartender called the Flamingo was hilarious and pretty much stole the show.” - Dark Stories review of "a fish is not a friend" at Montsalvat (Australia) "... incendiary performances from Sally McLean as Kate and Miguel Perez as Petruchio ..." - Mind The Blog (London Theatre Bloggers) review of "The Taming of The Shrew" by The Show Must Go Online on YouTube (UK) "Sally McLean as “Val Crane”, the embittered aunt of the lead character (Tess), found tremendous light and shade in a role that could have easily been played on the one angry note." - Theatre Alive review of "Flame Trees" at Theatreworks (Australia) "Two of the most emotionally draining episodes deal directly with grief and the loss of loved ones ... The final episode of the series features director McLean interpreting the famous “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” speech from act five of Macbeth … The poignancy of this episode comes from the juxtaposition of McLean’s affecting performance with the ambient noise in the background of the world attempting to return to some semblance of normalcy after months of lockdown … " - Shakespeare Bulletin review of "Shakespeare Republic: #AllTheWebsAStage" (USA) "The moral dilemma. Juicy. Delicious. Ideal for the stage … funny … dramatic … contains some pithy one liners and noteworthy sight gags … The seven-strong cast bounces off each other well with natural performances … an eminently watchable and enjoyable contemporary dramedy with broad appeal.” - The Blurb review of "Only Child" at Chapel off Chapel (Australia) Full Theatre, Film and TV credit and training list, plus additional photos and video clips available at https://www.sallymclean.com