Robin McLeavy is an Australian actress born on June 19, 1981, in Sydney, Australia. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 2004, marking the beginning of her illustrious career.
Her breakthrough role came in 2009, when she starred as Lola Stone in the critically acclaimed Australian horror film, The Loved Ones, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award. This performance showcased her versatility and talent as an actress.
In the same year, McLeavy played the role of Stella Kowalski in the Sydney Theatre Company production of A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton. The production was directed by Liv Ullmann and toured to the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, where she received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer.
She went on to appear in four encore seasons of Holding the Man, an award-winning play by Tommy Murphy, solidifying her reputation as a talented and dedicated actress.
In 2010, McLeavy took on the role of Isabella in Benedict Andrews's production of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare at the Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, and later appeared as Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, also directed by Benedict Andrews, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards.
Between 2011 and 2016, McLeavy played the role of Eva Oates, a frontier tribal abductee survivor, in the Western series Hell on Wheels, a character inspired by the real story of Olive Oatman.
In 2012, she portrayed Nancy Lincoln in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and in 2015, she took on the role of Nutsy, a Koala, in the Australian computer-animated adventure film Blinky Bill the Movie, alongside a talented cast of actors including Ryan Kwanten, Rufus Sewell, David Wenham, Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto, and Barry Humphries.
Additionally, she played Barbara Henning in the 2015 film Backtrack, further showcasing her range and versatility as an actress.
