Anna Torv

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Anna Torv

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Anna Torv
Last Name	Torv	Character portrayed: Olivia Dunham
First Name	Anna
Date of Birth	April 15, 1978
Place of Birth	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About

Anna Torv is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia’s most prestigious acting college. Since graduating, she has performed with the esteemed Sydney Theatre Company and had regular roles on several of Australia’s acclaimed television dramas, including “The Secret Life of Us” and “Young Lions.” She has also appeared in the highly popular “McLeod’s Daughters.”

Torv’s feature film credits include “Traveling Light” directed by Kathryn Millard, and Ana Kokkinos’ “The Book of Revelation” starring opposite fellow Australian Greta Scacchi. Her most recent credits include the BBC television series “Mistresses” and the cable miniseries “The Pacific” - produced by

Comic-Con-2009

Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

She divides her time between Vancouver, British Columbia, and the Brisbane/Gold Coast area of Australia.

Anna iFrame Images -- 2009 AiF Breakthrough Award Winner

Extensive biography at FanCast

Background

She is estranged from her father, the prominent Australian radio mogul Hans Torv.
Her uncle is international media mogul (billionaire) Rupert Murdoch, the head of News and Entertainment conglomerates - such as Fox Broadcasting.
She has a brother - Dylan.
She is married to season 1 co-star Mark Valley.
She frequently visits her mother Susan, in Benowa, Queensland, Australia, south of Brisbane on the Gold Coast. She considers Benowa her hometown.

Education

Torv graduated with a degree in the Performing Arts from the National Institute of Dynamic Arts NIDA, University of New South Wales - Sydney, Kensington, NSW, Australia, in 2001.
Torv attended Benowa High School.

Quotes

Dunham is... "an FBI agent, who... all of a sudden is exposed to this whole other world and is kind of forced to deal with it, which she does. She sort of tends to take on all the responsibility she can get. She has a real sense of duty."
She adds... "we were able to talk to a retired FBI agent, which was fantastic... these people that do these kind of jobs have just such a strong sense of duty. Like, a strong sense of duty and just total focus and tunnel vision... high expectations of themselves, too. And I think Olivia really does fall into that category."
Her character... "has a take-charge approach to most given situations - and having that military background doesn’t really prepare her for what’s to come - but doesn’t prevent her from wanting to figure out the mystery presented to her either..."
"I think she’s use to hard work and, like, following the trail, and the stuff that she’s dealing with is horrific, because it’s huge..."
About the show... "there’s always this over-riding thing that follows you that you can’t quite get to the bottom of.”