Background
She was born in Sydney and grew up in Gladesville, New South Wales, attended Hunters Hill High School and is the daughter of television presenter Simon Townsend.
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Nadia Townsend
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In 2008 Townsend studied at the Victorian College of the Arts gaining her post graduate degree in theatre directing.
Career
She is best known for her role in the Channel 7 police drama City Homicide, as Detective Senior Constable Allie Kingston. Nadia’s introduction to the small screen was in 2001 playing a regular role in the American Broadcasting Company drama series Head Start. She also starred in Fireflies for the American Broadcasting Company working under the widely respected executive producer John Edwards.
In 2009, Townsend appeared in the United States produced film Knowing, playing Grace Koestler, opposite Hollywood star Nicolas Cage.
Townsend began producing theatre in 1999 when she returned from studying at Atlantic Theatre Company in New New York She decided to learn her craft on the boards and set up her first theatre company Wolf Whistle.
In 2015, Townsend will appear in the sci-fi miniseries Restoration, playing Emma Laws. Nadia is also carving a path as a film dramaturg, a rare job description in Australian film.
Nadia was mentored by the dramaturg Nico Lathouris.
Nadia is one of a few in the country to be pursuing this art form. In 2012 Nadia was Assistant Dramaturg on Director George Miller"s latest instalment of the Mad Max franchise, "Fury Road". television Credits
Rush:(1 episode 2011)
City Homicide: Allie Kingston (2009 – 2011)
Chandon Pictures: Zoe (2 episodes, 2007)
Sea Patrol: Clair Watts (1 episode, 2007)
HeadLand: MJ Finnegan (17 episodes, 2005–2006)
Fireflies: Fifi Sharp (22 episodes, 2004)
Farscape (television series) Kim Kupperstein (1 episode, 2002)
Head Start: Clare Gormley (18 episodes, 2001)
Home & Away: Doctor Peta Bradley (2013)
Film Credits
Knowing: Grace Koestler: (2009)
Puppy: Lizzie (2005)
Danny Deckchair: Linda Craig (2003)
Short Films
Forget the Noise: Florence (2010)
The Zombie Monologues: Annie (2010)
What They Don"t Know: Lucy (2007)
Number 2: Bubble (???).
Membership
Townsend is a co-founding member of Turtle Laboratory, a performance laboratory in Australia.
