Writer and actor Magda Szubanski is best known internationally for her role as Mrs Hoggett in the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning BABE and its sequel BABE: PIG IN THE CITY. She also starred in the 2002 release THE CROCODILE HUNTER: COLLISION COURSE alongside Steve Irwin and will soon appear in the New Line sequel SON OF THE MASK. She recently reteamed with the BABE team to voice the upcoming animated feature HAPPY FEET alongside Brittany Murphy and Robin Williams.
Back home in Australia, Magda has twice been named the Most Popular Person on Television (in the years 2003 and 2004) and she has been acknowledged with an extraordinary seven Logies, three Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, two People’s Choice Awards and an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Actress.
Magda has recently finished shooting the third series of the ABC TV sitcom KATH & KIM, widely acknowledged to be the most successful comedy in Australian television history. Earlier in the year the show made the cultural leap to US and UK television via the cable networks Trio and Living, to critical acclaim (The Evening Standard – “brilliant stuff”; The Times - "The parody of the language is brilliant"). It will screen on BB2 from September.
Magda created her KATH & KIM character Sharon Strzelecki in the 1995 sketch show BIG GIRL’S BLOUSE, which she co-wrote, co-produced and starred in with her KATH & KIM producers and co-stars Gina Riley and Jane Turner. The series was a cult hit and won critical acclaim.
Magda also worked with Gina and Jane on the 1998 comedy series SOMETHING STUPID, which she co-wrote, co-produced and starred in. The year 2000 saw the premiere of DOGWOMAN, a series of three murder mystery telefeatures which she once again co-wrote, co-produced and starred in as the eponymous “dogwoman”.
But it was back in 1989 that Magda first shot to television fame for her huge variety of comic characters and her gift for accents in the sketch comedy FAST FORWARD. It played for several years and was the highest-rating comedy in Australian television history at the time, becoming something of a national institution.
Magda made the transition from university revue to television comedy in the ABC TV’s D-GENERATION, which fostered some of Australia’s most successful entertainment talents and is considered a comedy classic.
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