The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. Browse Getty Images premium collection of high-quality, authentic Claire Van Der Boom photos & royalty-free pictures, taken by professional Getty Images. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. “I’d like to keep working across theatre as well as film and TV, there’s some great roles in theatre I dream of playing but I’m open to it all.” Watch The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race on Ten and 10 Play, Wednesday July 26 at 7.30pm or stream on Paramount+ from Thursday July 27.This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. With no work “on the horizon right now”, van der Boom is “back in the rat-race”. “He was funny, kind, very open and warm, I adored working with him, it was very easy and I didn’t feel he was some mega star, he was just Liam,” she says. Last year, van der Boom worked alongside one of the industry’s greatest actors, Liam Neeson, in Blacklight. Internationally, she is best known for her appearance as Stella Karamanlis in the HBO miniseries The Pacific, and her recurring role playing the ex-wife of Detective Danny Williams in the 2010 remake of Hawaii Five-O. Internationally, she is best known for her appearance as Stella in the. Van der Boom first became known to Aussie audiences for her roles in TV series Love My Way and East West 101. Claire van der Boom is an Australian film and television actress of Dutch ancestry. Camera Icon Claire van der Boom as Penny and Katie Wall as Nikki. “Andy was very amusing, he had some tongue twisters he kept mucking up, of course I got the giggles and was trying not upset a huge take, there were a few clowns I worked with on this set …” she laughs. With the cast also starring Katie Wall, Genevieve Lemon, Tiriel Mora, Robyn Nevin and Andy Ryan, van der Boom admitted there were many comedic moments in which she had to hold back laughter to get through a scene. “Sure, I’d give it a go, I’d have to stretch and train and need an ice bath afterwards,” she jokes. When asked if she would try her game at an actual potato race - unlike her character Penny - van der Boom embraced the opportunity. “It’s about standing up for what you believe is right, but doing it with as much compassion as possible and with an open heart.” “When I received the script to audition I didn’t realise it had been her personal fight, she’d gone back and upset the community by putting a spotlight on them and questioning the gender parity for the race, it was new to me and I thought ‘good on her’, it’s an important story to be telling,” the actress says. The screenplay is written by playwright Melanie Tait after she returned to her spud-growing town of Robertson in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales in 2018 and became aware of the pay discrepancy in the town’s own race. Camera Icon Penny Anderson (Claire van der Boom) causes a stir in the sleepy town of Appleton after discovering the men won more money in the annual potato race. “I thought the script was very succinct, funny and moving … Penny is a vivacious character, she puts up a good fight which is always fun to play and she comes up against a lot of brick walls, so how she copes with that is both heartwarming and amusing,” van der Boom says. In 2008, she starred in the Australian neo-noir thriller The Square. She first became known to Australian audiences for her roles in the TV series Love My Way and East West 101. She is outraged to learn the men’s first prize pays $2000 while the winning woman’s prize is only $200, unleashing a cultural war like nothing the small country town has seen before. Claire van der Boom (born 1983) is an Australian actress. The film, based on a true story, follows van der Boom as the lead character Penny, who returns to her childhood home just in time for the Appleton Show and its “world famous” potato race. “I have deep and precious friendships in Perth, I’m still very connected to it, it’s a place I feel my heart is warmed,” she says.Īnother happy place for van der Boom was her time on set of The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, surrounded by actors that had been her role models for many years. Credit: Lisa TomasettiĪfter living in the US for the past 13 years, van der Boom relocated to Sydney at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. Camera Icon Claire Van Der Boom as Penny in The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race. “I miss the beaches, the old friends, heading to Rottnest - which is the equivalent of going to some beautiful Italian coastal island, it’s world-class in its beauty.Īfter graduating from Presbyterian Ladies’ College, the budding actress went on to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.
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