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Director, Producer Born: December 18, 1950 in Melbourne, Australia Biography:A technical theatre student at Swinburne College, Gillian Armstrong studied filmmaking at the Melbourne and Australian Film and Television School, paying her tuition by working as a waitress. She functioned in several secondary technical capacities in the Australian film industry, then she made her mainstream directorial bow with the 1977 short "The Singer and the Dancer", a soft-pedaled feminist tract which won an award at the Sydney Festival. Her first feature was "My Brilliant Career" (1979), which combined a modern sensibility concerning male/female relationships with the glossy romanticism of a 19th-century novel. Featuring a star-making turn by "Judy Davis", "My Brilliant Career" garnered seven Australian Film Institute awards, firmly securing Armstrong's reputation and future in her native country.
Armstrong's next major feature, the American-financed "Mrs. Soffel" (1984), starred "Diane... Full Biography
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