Magda Szubanski

Magda Szubanski

Birth : 1961-04-12, Liverpool, England, UK

History

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.

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Magda Szubanski

Movies

Kath & Kim: 20 Preposterous Years
Sharon Strzelecki
Friends and stars of the series explore the nooks and crannies of the Kath & Kim world, along with rarely-seen footage.
Kath & Kim: Our Effluent Life
Sharon Strzelecki
Featuring freshly minted scenes with the whole gang as well as some never-before-seen moments and too many bloopers and blunders to count on a washing glove-covered hand.
Ride Like a Girl
Sister Dominique
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Fly Me to the Moon
Herself
Prominent Aussies reflect on the Moon Landing - the triumph of human achievement. Using footage not seen since that momentous day, John Barron documents the aftermath as Apollo 11 astronauts made their way around our nation.
The BBQ
The Butcher
Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage from a Scottish chef, and together they enter an international barbecue competition.
Three Summers
Queenie
Set over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival redoubtable local radio personality ‘Queenie' describes as "Australia in a tent". Two young musicians fall in love against a wider collection of tales dealing with a microcosm of contemporary discussion points, including Indigenous, immigration and refugee issues.
Santapprentice
Santa Claus must train a shy little boy to replace him as he reluctantly retires.
Goddess
Cassandra Wolfe
Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.
Kath & Kimderella
Sharon Strzelecki
Kath & Kim turn more than just heads when they go on an overseas trip and end up being the centre of their very own fairytale.
Happy Feet Two
Miss Viola (voice)
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.
Bran Nue Dae
Roadhouse Betty
In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished for an act of youthful rebellion, he runs away from the mission on a journey that ultimately leads him back home.
The Golden Compass
Mrs. Lonsdale
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Dr. Plonk
Mrs. Plonk
A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it.
Happy Feet
Miss Viola (voice)
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Da Kath & Kim Code
Sharon Strzelecki
The squabbling mother and daughter, Kath and Kim, embark on an excursion into the unexplored crannies of life at Lagoon Court, Fountain Lakes.
Son of the Mask
Neighbor Betty
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
Brozzie Drewitt
Steve Irwin, AKA The Crocodile Hunter, has avoided the death-roll and saved a croc from poachers. But what he doesn't know is that the crocodile has swallowed a top secret U.S. satellite beacon, and the poachers are actually American special agents sent to retrieve it.
Dogwoman: The Legend of Dogwoman
Margaret O'Halloran
Margaret O'Halloran sets out to discover whether a dog killed her friend and mentor, Harry Bowman. To do this, O'Halloran must delve into the dark secrets of her home town and what she finds not only turns her world upside down, it could cost her life.
Dogwoman: The Legend of Dogwoman
Producer
Margaret O'Halloran sets out to discover whether a dog killed her friend and mentor, Harry Bowman. To do this, O'Halloran must delve into the dark secrets of her home town and what she finds not only turns her world upside down, it could cost her life.
Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking
Producer
Margaret O'Halloran is a dog trainer with a unique talent and a nose for a mystery. Now an old lady has been savaged to death, her faithful dog is the prime suspect. But Margaret smells a murderer of the two legged variety.
Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking
Writer
Margaret O'Halloran is a dog trainer with a unique talent and a nose for a mystery. Now an old lady has been savaged to death, her faithful dog is the prime suspect. But Margaret smells a murderer of the two legged variety.
Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking
Margaret O'Halloran
Margaret O'Halloran is a dog trainer with a unique talent and a nose for a mystery. Now an old lady has been savaged to death, her faithful dog is the prime suspect. But Margaret smells a murderer of the two legged variety.
Dogwoman: A Grrrl's Best Friend
Margaret O'Halloran
An eco-bomber is terrorizing the city. Margaret O'Halloran and Kelty are called in to assist only to discover that the bomber could be Margaret's idealistic younger cousin.
Dogwoman: A Grrrl's Best Friend
Producer
An eco-bomber is terrorizing the city. Margaret O'Halloran and Kelty are called in to assist only to discover that the bomber could be Margaret's idealistic younger cousin.
Babe: Pig in the City
Mrs. Esme Cordelia Hoggett
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Babe
Esme Hoggett
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
A Royal Commission Into The Australian Economy
Mr. Cardigan / Mr. Trouser / Bill Kelty
Dame Victoria Market, under instructions from the Queen, holds an enquiry into why the Australian ecconomy does not work.