Susan Prior

Susan Prior

History

Susan Prior is an Australian actress. She won the 2014 AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in The Rover and was nominated for the 2012 AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for Puberty Blues. She was twice nominated for the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play, in 2008 for Riflemind and in 2014 for Small and Tired.

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Susan Prior

Movies

Ascendant
Barbara Wolf
A young environmentalist wakes, trapped, kidnapped in the elevator of a super high rise building at the mercy of her tormentors.
Groundhog Night
Gary’s so used to caring for his disabled daughter Jess, he can do it in his sleep. But when the in-laws come to stay, everyone will get a wake-up call.

Mukbang
Sandra
When a young girl falls deep into the internet phenomenon that is Mukbang, she comes face-to-face with an unfamiliar feeling.
Book Week
Lee Issen
Nicholas Cutler is a smart yet self-destructive, once famous novelist who is stuck teaching English to iPhone-addicted teenagers at a working class high school. After writing a trashy zombie story he recaptures the interest of publishers who are willing to give him a second chance as long as he can prove he has cleaned up his act. However, what could have been the best week of his life spirals into chaos and he's forced to finally put others ahead of his selfish dreams.
The Second
The Detective
The persona of a celebrated author is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the dark secret behind her first novel's provenance, igniting an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal.
Riot
Norma Gowland
A look at the 1970s Gay Rights Movement in Australia through the eyes of dedicated activist Lance Gowland. As Lance deals with his sexuality, he must also juggle work, family and relationships.
Jasper Jones
Gwyn Wishart
Charlie Bucktin is a bookish boy of 14. His life changes forever when Jasper Jones, the city's multiracial outsider, shows him the body of young Laura Wishart one night. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer.
Bunny New Girl
Alice Dunn
On her first day at a new school, a self conscious young girl learns that friendship can overcome difference.
Something Elemental: Making 'The Rover'
Self
Behind the scenes look at David Michôd's 2014 film 'The Rover'.
The Rover
Dorothy Peeples
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback, aided by the brother of one of the thieves.
The Orchard
Rachel
Leo is dead and Saverio hasn't spoken to him for ten years. When Saverio meets Anna, his dead brother's goddaughter, she leads him to what he most wants to avoid--Leo's memory, and his own dark desires.
Snowblind
Gene
Jack is utterly fed up with living at home. He longs for love, freedom and the music by KISS.
Aim High In Creation!
A revolutionary film about the cinematic genius of North Korea's late Dear Leader Kim Jung-IL, with a groundbreaking experiment at its heart - a propaganda film, made according to the rules of his 1987 manifesto. Through the shared love of cinema, AIM HIGH IN CREATION! forges an astonishing new bond between the hidden filmmakers of North Korea and their Free World collaborators. Revealing an unexpected truth about the most isolated nation on earth: filmmakers, no matter where they live, are family.
Not Suitable For Children
Marcie
A young playboy who learns he has one month until he becomes infertile sets out to procreate as much as possible.
Animal Kingdom
Alicia Henry
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.
The View from Greenhaven
Kate
A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.
Suburban Mayhem
Christine Andretti
Can you really get away with murder? Welcome to the world of Katrina, a 19-year-old single mum who's planning to do just that. Katrina lives in a world of petty crime, fast cars, manicures and blow-jobs. A master manipulator of men living at home with her father in suburban Golden Grove, Katrina will stop at nothing to get what she wants - even murder.
Monster
Mother
A mother battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the closet, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
The Saviour
Carmel
A young Church elder struggles with his faith when the married woman he has been seeing breaks off their relationship.
A Cold Summer
Phaedra
A Cold Summer constructs three truthful portraits of people dealing with death in their lives in radically different ways and creates an environment, in which after unpeeling the layers, they expose their lives before the camera. The film makes a positive statement through two very selfish and cynical characters and how someone who still believes in honesty and love touches their lives.
A Cold Summer
Writer
A Cold Summer constructs three truthful portraits of people dealing with death in their lives in radically different ways and creates an environment, in which after unpeeling the layers, they expose their lives before the camera. The film makes a positive statement through two very selfish and cynical characters and how someone who still believes in honesty and love touches their lives.
A Wreck, a Tangle
Eleanor
A wired but charming and educated junkie couple ("we prefer the term chemically dependent") run their stolen car into a nice well to do thirty-something couple and when it gets all too hard, end up staying with them - first for a night, then a week and then for way too long.
Praise
Sophie
An unfocused twentysomething moves in with a former co-worker, who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczema. Their relationship is based on unending drink, drugs, and sex.
Heaven's Burning
Sharon
In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only to become a hostage in an unfolding robbery, until the getaway driver, Colin, saves her from his fellow robbers. They hit the road together, with the cops, her husband and the robbers in pursuit.
Deadline
Thanks
The desperate misadventures of a young man, racing against the clock toward a mysterious destination. This was the first short film that Nash wrote and directed. It was made for $80 and won first prize at Tropfest in 1997.
Muriel's Wedding
Girl at wedding
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.