Sigrid Thornton Biography

Sigrid Thornton is an Australian born actress. She has appeared in many Australian films and even won the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television drama for the 2015 miniseries Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door.

Her parents are Merle, who is a teacher and writer, and Neil Thornton, an academic. She was raised in Brisbane, attending St. Peter’s Lutheran College. For two years she lived in London, where she was a member of the Unicorn Theatre.

Back in Brisbane she attended Twelfth Night Theatre Junior Workshop and In 1970, during the Captain Cook Bicentenary Celebrations, Thornton appeared before Queen Elizabeth II as Rosa Campbell-Praed in Looking Glass on Yesterday.

Sigrid Thornton Age

Sigrid was born on 12th February 1959 in Canberra, Australia. She is 59 years old as of 2018.

Sigrid Thornton Net Worth

She has an estimated net worth of $1,114,955 Dollars.

Sigrid Thornton Husband

Thornton is married to Tom Burstall and together they had two children. Tom is the son of Tim Burstall, an English Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for hit Australian movie Alvin Purple (1973) and its sequel Alvin Rides Again.

Sigrid Thornton Children

She has two children; a son Ben Burstall and daughter Jaz Burstall.

Sigrid Thornton Career

She made her film debut in The FJ Holden directed by Michael Thornhill as Wendy and as Maria in the film adaptation of Henry Handel Richardson’s colonial Australian novel, The Getting of Wisdom directed by Bruce Beresford in 1977. In 1978, Thornton appeared in the Australian television sequel of the British comedy series Father, Dear Father in Australia , . and also played Angela in the film Snapshot (aka The Day After Halloween) directed by Simon Wincer, for which role she was nominated for Australian Film Awards Best Actress in a Feature Film in 1979.

A year later she appeared as Roslyn Coulson in the Australian television drama Prisoner,known overseas as Prisoner: Cell Block H. Thornton starred in 1981 in Duet for Four. 1982 saw her take on the roles of Jessica Harrison in the films The Man from Snowy River and its sequel in 1988 The Man from Snowy River II. 1983 marked an appearance in Street Hero. Thornton starred in 1983’s miniseries All the Rivers Run. 1986 saw her in The Lighthorsemen, the TV adaptation of Nevil Shute’s novel The Far Country, Great Expectations: The Untold Story and Slate, Wyn & Me.

She played the role of Amelia Lawson in the American television drama series Paradise, from 1988 to 1991 . Syndication of All the Rivers Run and The Man from Snowy River and The Man from Snowy River II brought her to a wider international audience. She starred in Over the Hill directed by George T. Miller in 1991 and in 1996, Love in Ambush directed by Carl Shultz. She starred as Laura Joy Gibson in the Australian television series SeaChange from 1998 to 2000, winning the Most Outstanding Actress award in 1999 and 2000.

Thornton’s stage performances include a 2002/03 touring production of The Blue Room directed by Simon Phillips for the Melbourne Theatre Company opposite Marcus Graham. She made her debut with Opera Australia in 2009, in its production at Melbourne’s Arts Centre as Desiree Armfeldt in Sondheim and Wheeler’s A Little Night Music, directed by Stuart Maunder.

In 2014, she won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire for the Black Swan State Theatre Company in Perth. In 2015, she appeared in the premiere of Stephen Beckett’s play Diary of a Nobody, inspired by the 1892 novel The Diary of a Nobody, at the Princess Theatre, Launceston, Tasmania. The same year, Thornton played the part of Golde in Fiddler on the Roof at the Princess Theatre, Melbourne.

Sigrid In Action

Sigrid Thornton Movies and TV Shows

Sigrid Thornton Movies

1982: The Man from Snowy River
1988: The Man from Snowy River II
1987: The Lighthorsemen
1979: One More Minute
2003: Inspector Gadget 2
2016: Scare Campaign
1987: Slate, Wyn & Me
2005: Little Oberon
2014: Bffs
1987: The Getting of Wisdom
1984: Street Hero
1988: The Far Country
1977: The FJ Holden
1992: Over the Hill
1982: Duet for Four
2011: The Telegram Man
1995: Trapped In Space
2003: The Pact
1985: Niel Lynne
1997: Love in Ambush
2011: Face To Face
1979: The King of the Two Day Wonder
2002: Living with Happiness
1996: Whipping Boy
1989: Paradise: A Gathering of Guns

Sigrid Thornton TV Shows

1983: All the Rivers Run
1998 – 2000: SeaChange
Since 2013: Wentworth
1988 – 1991: Paradise
2015: Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door
Since 2014: The Code
2006 – 2009: What’s Good For You
1982: 1915
1967 – 1977: Bellbird
1981: I Can Jump Puddles
1981: Outbreak of Love

Sigrid Thornton Awards

1984: Silver Logie for Best Lead Actress,’All the Rivers Run’.
1999: Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress, ‘SeaChange’
2000: Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actress, ‘SeaChange’
AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door

Sigrid Thornton Interview During An Emotional Episode With Anh’s Brush With Fame

‘It’s still quite raw’: Sigrid Thornton reveals family pain

She is one of Australia’s most famous actors but Sigrid Thornton has kept her family’s pain out of the spotlight until now.

The SeaChange star was brought to tears as she recounted her father Neil Thornton’s long battle with illness before his 2014 death on Tuesday’s episode of Anh’s Brush With Fame.

The actress told artist Anh Do how Neil had enlisted in the Australian Army and in 1945 was sent to Japan as part of a clean-up force following the atomic bomb being dropped.

It was there Sigrid’s father was exposed to heavy radiation and later diagnosed with neurasthenia.

“We had to do a lot of research into what happened to Dad later in his life because he developed a very serious chronic pain condition and — I’m sorry,” Sigrid said, pausing as tears welled in her eyes.

“It really marred the last years of his life, the last 10 years … it’s still quite raw. He spent the last 10 years of his life in chronic pain as a result of this, clearly as a result of this early radiation exposure.”

Despite his suffering, Sigrid said her “extremely kind and gentle” father had a “very good death” surrounded by family.

“I say that because Dad had a very long illness, so there was a lot of pre-grieving that had gone on for him because he was very, very, sick for a long time,” she explained.

“But when he finally died he started to die on Christmas Day — matter of fact he waited until the family was gathered together … it took him two days to finally die.

“But because it took two days to die, and because the whole family was assembled, we could shower him with love in those final hours. And it was a great privilege to have that time with Dad.”

During the wide ranging chat Sigrid also revealed she was made to audition four times before she was cast as Laura Gibson in SeaChange.

“I think I might have just worn them down!” Sigrid joked. “They might have just said, ‘get this person out of here and just give her the bloody job for God’s sake,’ something like that must have happened.

“But I loved the material so much, I loved the tone and I loved the character very much, and what ensued was a very joyful part of my life actually.”

But Sigrid’s confession paled in comparison to Anh Do’s revelation — he had a role on SeaChange playing “some sort of dodgy boyfriend for about two minutes”.

“I can’t believe I am going to tell you this because I was very bad in it, but my first acting role ever in my whole life was in SeaChange,” Anh revealed.

Sigrid Thornton on Leaving Wentworth Season 6

Sigrid Thornton News

‘It’s still quite raw’: Sigrid Thornton reveals family pain.

Updated on: September 12, 2018

She’s one of Australia’s most famous actors but Sigrid Thornton has kept her family’s pain out of the spotlight until now.