Biography

Kylie Bracknell (formerly Kylie Farmer) is a 2020 recipient of Australia's prestigious Sydney Myer Performing Arts Award. She is an accomplished actor, theatre maker, writer, producer, and director from Perth, Western Australia with over two decades experience working in Australia's creative industries.

As an actor, Kylie has featured in television programs such as Irreverent (Netflix), Little J and Big Cuz (NITV and ABC), The Gods of Wheat Street (ABC) and Redfern Now (ABC), films including I Met a Girl (2020), Ace of Spades (2012) and Stone Bros (2009), and theatre productions including Black is the New White (STC 2017-19) and The Sapphires (Belvoir 2010).

Bracknell is highly respected for her award-winning stage adaptation, co-translation, and direction of Hecate - a reimagining of Shakespeare's Macbeth in the endangered Noongar language of southwestern Australia, Bracknell's mother tongue. She received critical acclaim for her ground-breaking language reclamation film Fist of Fury Noongar Daa - the first feature to be dubbed in an original language from Australia.

- IMDb mini biography by: Kylie Bracknell