Peta Brady

Brady grew up in Melbourne.^[1] She first gravitated towards acting and writing during her high school years, where she wrote some scenes for a school production. Following high school, she studied performing arts at the University of Ballarat.^[2]

Brady's first screen role was the lead in the 1991 television film Street Angels. She plays street kid Chrissie, who is a victim of incest.^[1] She appears in the 1994 coming-of-age film Only the Brave as Tammy.^[3] She is perhaps best known for being the second actress, after Amelia Frid, to play Cody Willis in the television soap opera Neighbours from 1993 until 1996.^[4] After leaving Neighbours, Brady initially struggled to find acting work, but in 1997, she played Dianne in Simone de Beauvoir's Babies and filmed an appearance in Raw FM.^[5]

Brady has appeared in the feature films Mullet (2001) and Pawno (2016) as well as numerous short films and tv movies. She has had roles in several miniseries, including Fat Cow Motel (2003), RAN (Remote Area Nurse) (2006) and The Slap (2011).

Brady has had recurring roles as Kelly in the TV sitcom Kath & Kim, Rosie Day in drama series Big Sky (1999), and Janine Ballich in Jack Irish (2016-2021). She has also had numerous guest roles in television series such as Phoenix (1993), Good Guys Bad Guys (1997), Blue Heelers (1997 & 2003), MDA (2003), City Homicide (2008 & 2009), The Librarians (2009 & 2010), Rush (2010), It' a Date (2014), House Husbands (2015), Safe Home (2023) and Fake (2023)

Brady played the character of Annie in 2005 stage production Love by Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius,^[6] which won her the Gerda Nicholson Award for an 'Actress with an Emerging Career' at the 2005 Green Room Awards. The first play she wrote, Status Update (2010), received two Green Room Awards nominations, including 'Best New Writing for the Melbourne Stage', and 'Best Female Performer'. Her play Strands receive funding from the R.E Ross Trust Award in 2011.^[7] Brady performed in five seasons of Patricia Cornelius’s award winning play Shit, receiving the 2016 Green Room Award for Best Ensemble.^[8]

In 2011, Brady had been working for the Salvation Army as a mobile health, alcohol and drug safety outreach worker on weekends for about ten years, as a secondary source of income.^[9]

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