Mouche Phillips

Mouche Phillips (born 1973) is an Australian actress, voice actress and theatre producer, best known for her television roles as Aviva "Viv" Newton in Home and Away (1989–90) and Eva Sykes in police procedural series Water Rats (2000–01).[1]

Mouche Phillips
Born1973 (age 46–47)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
CitizenshipAustralia
Alma materSt Catherine's School
Central School of Speech and Drama
OccupationActor
Voice over artist
Theatrical producer
Years active1985–present
EmployerRipe Productions
Byron Theatre
Known forHome and Away
Home townSydney
Spouse(s)
Sy Milman
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(
m. 2002; div. 2010)
Children3

Early life

Phillips was born in Sydney, and attended Woollahra Public School with several other future actors, including Home and away co-star Justine Clarke and singer Deni Hines, and then St Catherine's School, Waverley from 1984 to 1989.[2]

Career

Phillips began her career by starring as "Beatie Bow" in the 1986 feature film Playing Beatie Bow when she was twelve years old.[3] She later appeared in many Seven Network serials, including A Country Practice and Rafferty's Rules.

On 5 July 1989, she premiered as a cast member of the popular series Home and Away, on which she played Aviva "Viv" Newton. She left the series on 25 May 1990.[4] Phillips was sharing a house with Justine Clarke and began auditioning the week after Clarke had left the serial.[5] Phillips told a writer from Look-in that she liked to be kept busy on set. She explained that "people" were often left trying to find her because she was not where she should have been.[6] Phillips told Graeme Kay from BIG! that the role had taken up too much of her time and she preferred having a free schedule.[7]

She later starred in a number of the Kennedy Miller Productions in the 1980s. She was cast in the ABC series G.P. before, at the age of 17, moving to London, England. Aged 19, she was accepted into the Central School of Speech and Drama.

After returning to Sydney in the mid-1990s, Phillips began producing pub theatre with a group of friends, Jeremy Cumpston, Simon Lyndon and Joel Edgerton, later to be known as the Tamarama Rock Surfers theatre group.[8]

She later starred in PorkChop Productions' first show, a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. That led to her being appointed PorkChop's full-time producer,[9] which led her to develop material to stage at the Sydney Opera House. Phillips produced Last Cab to Darwin for PorkChop Productions which was staged at the Opera House in Sydney and at the Black Swan State Theatre Company in Perth.[10][11]

In 2000, Phillips appeared as a guest in the police series Water Rats where she played Eva Minton-Sykes, wife of Gavin Sykes until 2001. In 2009 she appeared in the third season of the series H2O: Just Add Water where she played Mrs. Taylor, a science teacher, until 2010. She joined the cast of Secrets & Lies where she played Vanessa Turner, the wife of the doctor Timothy Turner on 3 March 2014.

Personal life

Phillips married Sy Milman on 21 September 2002; the couple had three children and they divorced in 2010. She is currently the owner and creative director of Ripe Productions and took the position of creative producer for Byron Theatre in 2010.[12] She also works as the Sponsorship Manager for the Byron Bay Writers Festival[13] and as the curator of the Byron Bay Soul Street New Year's Eve Event.[12] She also works as the Sponsorship Manager for the Byron Bay Writers Festival[14] She directs a theater program for the Byron Theatre, also has taught several children focused on functions of camera, improvisation and has assisted as a children's casting director and acting teacher.

Memberships and associations

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Director
1986 Playing Beatie Bow[15] Beatie Bow Donald Crombie
1993 Butterfly Island Jackie Wilson Frank Arnold
1997 Reprisal Lavinia Robert Marchand
1998 Never Tell Me Never Meredith David Elfick

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1987 The Haunted School Magpie Miniseries
1988 Dadah Is Death[16] Michelle Barlow Miniseries
1988 Butterfly Island[17] Jackie Wilson TV Series
1988 The Dirtwater Dynasty[18] Mary Eastwick Miniseries
1988 Princess Kate Sarah Television film
1989 G.P. Sarah Television film
1989–1990 Home and Away Viv Newton TV series; 130 episodes
1991 Golden Fiddles Daphne Craig Miniseries
1991 Chances Nicki Taylor Miniseries
1996 Pacific Drive PJ TV series
1996 Sweat Robyn Barry TV series; episode: 1.5
2000–2001 Water Rats Eva Sykes TV series; 8 episodes
2008–2009 East of Everything Sandy TV series; 11 episodes
2009–2010 H2O: Just Add Water Ms. Taylor TV series; 5 episodes
2011 Rescue Special Ops Leonie Carr TV series; episode: "The Game"
2013 The Gods of Wheat Street Petra Hamilton TV series; 6 episodes
2014 Secrets & Lies Vanessa Turner TV series; 4 episodes

Producer
YearTitleNotes
2003
Last Cab to DarwinProducer
TBADelectable ShelterProducer
Ruby’s Last DollarProducer
The HarbingerTouring Producer
Stow and The DragonProducer

Theatre
YearTitleRoleDirectorTheatreNotes
1995Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead[19]–Jeremy SimsBelvoir Street TheatreJonathan Hardy, Andrea Moor, Sean O'Shea and Christopher Stollery
1996Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo–Alan BecherNational TheatreLeon Ewing, Greg McNeill, Scott McRae, Mattie Porges & James Sollis

Awards and nominations
YearCategoryAward
–Best Acting in RadioSilver Stylus Award[20]
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gollark: Bismuth.
gollark: You can do it yourself.

References
  1. "Byron gets its own theatre company". Northern Star.
  2. "Look every which way".
  3. Jillett, Neil (8 August 1986). "Frank, Sympathetic Study For All Ages". The Age.
  4. Krizanovich, Karen (4–10 November 1989). "Is she with you?". TV Guide. Murdoch Magazines (33): 56–57.
  5. "Behind the scenes". TV Week. ACP Magazines: 13. 19–25 January 2008.
  6. "Summer Bay watch". Look-in. IPC Media (41): 18. 13 October 1990.
  7. Kay, Graeme (5–18 December 1990). "Mouche Phillips – she can speak Tahitan!". BIG!. EMAP (49): 4.
  8. "Not waiting for Godot". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  9. "Pokie play takes a gamble finding sponsorship". The Sun-Herald.
  10. Boland, Michaela (29 August 2004). "Review: 'Last Cab to Darwin'". Variety. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  11. Browning, Daniel (18 April 2003). "Last Cab to Darwin". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  12. "Northern Rivers Creative • Arts Northern Rivers". Archived from the original on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  13. "About The Byron Bay Writers Festival". ABC North Coast New South Wales. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  14. "Gotta love a woman with Soul". Echo Net Daily.
  15. "Avoid the Dreaded G Rating".
  16. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p176
  17. Albert Moran, Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, AFTRS 1993 p 96
  18. Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970–1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p187
  19. "AusStage".
  20. "Who We Are". Jamhouse Creative.
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