Roxane Wilson

Wilson was born in Durban, South Africa in 1965, to an Italian mother and an English father.^[2] Her father was also an actor, who trained at the Old Vic^[3] in London.

In 1972, Roxane moved with her mother to Sydney, via London. Her stepfather is Ian 'Peewee' Wilson,^[3] leader and founding member of the Australian rock and roll band The Delltones.

After a couple of years in suburban Sydney, touring with the band, her family moved to Eungai Creek,^[3] New South Wales on the mid-north coast, where they maintained a fifty-acre farm, growing organic vegetables.^[2]

Wilson began her career at an early age with modelling.^[2] In 1981 she signed with the Chadwick Models agency in Sydney. She also joined the Rocks Players drama school, paying for her studies with earnings from modelling. In 1983 she relocated to New York for three years, where she signed with Wilhelmina Models and travelled the world modelling.^[2] During her time in New York she studied acting at HB Studio and the Meisner technique with Robert Modica.^[3]

On her return to Australia in 1990, Wilson began her career as a professional actress, playing the lead female role in the television series Family and Friends.^[2] In 1991 she relocated to Perth and furthered her craft by studying acting at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts^[4] She graduated in 1993 with a Diploma of Performing Arts, before returning to Sydney, where she worked extensively in film, television and theatre.^[4]

She had leading stage roles in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Practical Mamet, Edward Albee’s Finding the Sun and Freak Winds. She also had significant roles in the television series Water Rats, The Alice, and the film Punishment. She had a guest role Home and Away, and appeared in the films Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997) alongside Miranda Otto, Paperback Hero (1999) with Hugh Jackman and independent film Black & White & Sex (2011).^[5]

In 2014 she appeared in the Australian Theatre Company's Los Angeles production of Holding the Man opposite Cameron Daddo, Adam J. Yeend and Nate Jones. The production was directed by Larry Moss and received strong critical praise.

She has also worked as a tutor and as a private acting coach at Screenwise and ATYP.

In 2001 Wilson married fellow actor Grant Bowler. They relocated to Los Angeles not long afterwards, to further their respective acting careers. Wilson became pregnant with their first child and subsequently focussed on being a full time mother to daughter Edie. During a return to Sydney in 2005, their son Ezekiel was born.^[6][7]

Wilson and Bowler divorced in 2011, and Wilson returned to Los Angeles with her children in 2012, where she now lives.

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