Genevieve Lemon

In 2015 she played the role of Mae McSwiney in the film The Dressmaker opposite Kate Winslet.

Lemon has also appeared in a number of films directed by Jane Campion – Sweetie, The Piano and Holy Smoke!. She also appeared as Bunny, in Campion's miniseries Top of the Lake.

Lemon has worked extensively for a number of major state theatre companies in Australia. She played in the stage production Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – the Musical as Shirley, the barmaid and owner of the Broken Hill Hotel.

On 21 January 2008 she won Best Actress in a Musical award at the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards. Lemon won a 2008 Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical for her role in Billy Elliot the Musical.

1985 Penguin Certificate of Commendation for Prisoner

Lemon began her acting with the Leichhardt-based amateur theatre company, The Rocks Players in inner city Sydney. Her professional career began on TV in 1982 with a minor role in Sons and Daughters, followed shortly after with a larger role as Nurse Zelda Baker in The Young Doctors.

Genevieve Lemon (born 21 April 1958) is an Australian singer and actress who has appeared in a number of soap operas. Her best known roles are as Zelda Baker in The Young Doctors, Marlene "Rabbit" Warren in Prisoner and Brenda Riley in Neighbours. She showed her comedic and singing talents in the televised revue show Three Men and a Baby Grand. In 2018, she began playing Hazel Easton in the Channel 7 soap opera Home and Away.