Sally McLean

Sally McLean is an Australian actress who has played leading roles on the London stage in various productions including Macbeth, Hamlet, Top Girls, Uncle Vanya and the World Premier of Annabel’s Requiem. She has appeared on UK television in The Bookworm,The 80’s, The Late Show and as "Angie Powers" in the BBC mini-series Bootleg.

McLean is a graduate of The Actors Institute, London (UK). On the Australian stage, her credits include leads in On the Town, Song and Dance, Annie, Lovepuke and the professional Australian Premier of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne. Australian television credits include Lowdown, Elephant Princess, Fast Forward, Blue Heelers, Tonight Live and Comedy Inc. Film credits include Without A Word, Interchange, Within and the UK features A Little Rain Must Fall, Ladybird and Secrets.

As a screenwriter, playwright, director and producer Sally has written, directed and/or produced a number of successful films and plays under the banner of her production outfit, Incognita Enterprises (formally Salmac Productions), which began life in 1997 under the honorary patronage of British actor, Sir Nigel Hawthorne. These include the short films fixNATION and Brigit & Benny (a modern faerietale) and the plays Chasing Pegasus and P.S I Love You. Her most recent theatre project as writer/director was the WWII drama, Bayonets & Bully Beef, which was showcased at the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, under her direction in July 2005.

McLean's recent work includes the film Why Must The Show Go On? as "Madeleine La Roy" (which she also co-wrote) and the role of "Dowsabel" in Robert Benedetti's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors for the Australian Shakespeare Company.