Jacinta Stapleton


Jacinta Patrice Stapleton is an Australian actress. Known for her role as Amy Greenwood in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours from 1997 to 2000. Her most notable role was playing an undercover detective in the primetime network television series Stingers. Her performance garnered an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama. She is the younger sister of Blindspot actor Sullivan Stapleton.

Career

Joining an acting agency at the age of 6 years old, along with her brother Sullivan Stapleton, she appeared in TV commercials, film and TV series. Jacinta studied drama, theatre and dance at Sandringham Secondary College before appearing in her first long running television series as Amy Greenwood in Neighbours from 1997 to 2000, making a cameo return in 2005 during the 20th anniversary of the series.
From 2002 to 2004 she played Christina Dichiera in the TV drama Stingers which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute award for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Drama.
She also appeared in hit dramas MDA.,Blue Heelers, All Saints, Dirt Game, Out of the Blue and Packed to the Rafters.
In October 1999 she posed nude for Black+White magazine.
Her most notable roles of late are playing Reen Nalli in the biopic, Mercedes Corby in the story of Schapelle and was praised for her portrayal of Madonna in the Molly Meldrum biopic Molly.
She studied under the tutelage of world renowned acting coach Ivana Chubbuck.

Filmography

Film

Television