Georgina Naidu

Georgina Naidu is an Australian actress, stage writer and university lecturer. From Melbourne, she began acting from an early age and completed her professional training with the Victorian College of the Arts in 1994. She began her film career taking small roles, such as Mary in the 1998 film Dead Letter Office. Her television career has also been formed of many guest roles in Australian drama series. Her role as Phrani Gupta in the 1998 Australian Broadcasting Corporation drama SeaChange heightened her profile. The actress continued to play numerous roles in film and television over the two decades that followed. She also studied law and became a university lecturer. Naidu has often concentrated on theatre work and has starred in many theatrical productions. She also writes plays and in 2005 she opened her one-woman show, Yellowfeather, at the Sydney Opera House. Her show is an autobiographical piece that focuses on her life and went on to tour internationally. In 2011, she appeared as Georgina in the drama At Home With Julia and the show's cast won an 2012 Equity Ensemble Award. In 2017, Naidu secured the main role of Helena Chatterjee in Newton's Law, which aired on the ABC network. Other ongoing roles included Marla in The Time of Our Lives and Toni Chadha in the drama series Playing for Keeps. In 2019, Naidu reprised her role in SeaChange and continued appearing in numerous Australian drama series. Early life Naidu is from Melbourne and has Anglo-Indian ancestry. Naidu has claimed that her family knew she wanted to act following an impromptu dance piece at the age of three. She took part in amateur acting from 1984 until 1991 with the St Martin's Youth Theatre in South Yarra, Victoria. Naidu went to the Victorian College of the Arts and graduated in 1994. She had also trained at Prahran College of Performing Arts in 1991. One of her early roles came in 1990, when she played an extra in the Paul Cox film Golden Braid. She later studied law at La Trobe University. When she first started attending auditions Naidu was shocked because she felt that casting directors were "pigeon holing" her because of her ethnicity. After her first year of auditioning she became passionate about trying to change things. Career Naidu has taken part in various theatre productions over her career in-between securing roles in television and film. Her television career began with small roles in the children's shows The Gift and Lift Off.