Vanessa Downing

Cast (Margaret), The Inheritance

Vanessa has built an extensive and diverse career across film, theatre, and television, performing with many of Australia’s leading theatre companies, including Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre, State Theatre Company of SA, Bell Shakespeare, Ensemble, Griffin, The Production Company, Q Theatre, and Riverside Theatres.

Recent Theatre Highlights

• This season’s Uncle Vanya (Ensemble Theatre)
• Do Not Go Gentle, On the Beach, Grand Horizons, The Deep Blue Sea, Black is the New White, How to Rule the World, Power Plays (Sydney Theatre Company)
• Edward Gordon MacDonald Partridge (Australian Chamber Orchestra’s children’s play)

Additional stage credits include Wicked Sisters, A Cheery Soul, The Taming of the Shrew, Faustus, The Glass Menagerie, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, King Lear, As You Like It, Hello, Dolly!, Equus, Three Birds Alighting on a Field, Private Lives, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ring Round the Moon, Season’s Greetings, Steaming, and the original 1986 production of Away for Griffin.

Television

Vanessa recently appeared in Season 2 of Foxtel’s Mr In Between. Additional television credits include:

• Black Comedy
• The Checkout
• Rake
• All Saints
• G.P.
• Home and Away
• A Country Practice

Film

Her feature and short film appearances include Voice Activated, Stationery, Mary, The Boy Who Had Everything, and Two Hands.

In addition to her acting work, Vanessa is a member of the Sydney Philharmonia Symphony Chorus.