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In September 2013, it was announced that Rabe would join the cast of the Australian prison drama series Wentworth, a reimagining of the classic Network Ten soap opera Prisoner. Rabe's Australian television credits include an early guest role on the soap opera A Country Practice, recurring roles on the family series Ocean Girl and The Secret Life of Us, and a lead role in the short lived series Mercury. More recently, she appeared in the Jasmila Žbanić film For Those Who Can Tell No Tales and narrated the film Symphony of the Wild. In 1997, Rabe was cast in the leading role of Hester in The Well (1997 film), an adaptation of Elizabeth Jolley's novel The Well, for which she received an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress. Following this, she appeared in Così with Toni Collette, Lust and Revenge directed by Paul Cox, and Paradise Road starring Glenn Close and set during World War II. Rabe's first leading role was in the 1995 film Vacant Possession. Her second role came in 1993 when she was cast in John Duigan's romantic comedy Sirens with Hugh Grant and Sam Neill. In 1989, Rabe made her film debut with a minor role in Against the Innocent. In 2012 Rabe was invited to be a member of the guest triumvirate who programmed the Melbourne Theatre Company season for that year. Rabe was nominated for a Green Room Award for best direction on both occasions. Rabe turned her hand to theatre directing in 2009, and has directed several high-profile plays for Australian theatre companies, including the Australian premiere of In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), and Elling for the Melbourne Theatre Company. In 2018, Rabe starred in Lucy Kirkwood's play The Children at the Melbourne Theatre Company. Higgins in the Julie Andrews directed revival of My Fair Lady (replacing Robyn Nevin), and the role of Mary in Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary, at The Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne. In late 2017 Rabe played the roles of Helene Alving in Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts for Sydney's Belvoir St Theatre, Mrs. In July 2015 she won a second Helpmann Award, this time for Best Female Actor in a Play, for her performance in The Glass Menagerie. In 2012 Rabe received a Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical for her performance in Grey Gardens for The Production Company. In 2010 she starred in the Melbourne stage production of David Mamet's play Boston Marriage. where she inhabited the body and mind of a suicide bomber. In 2005 she performed a challenging experimental Croatian play called Woman-Bomb. and Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses alongside Hugo Weaving. Some of her other high-profile acting roles include Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie at Belvoir, for which she won a Helpmann Award, Nora Boyle in Patrick White's The Season at Sarsaparilla, for which she won a Green Room Award for Best Actress, Richard III in the Sydney Theatre Company production of The War Of The Roses, which also starred Cate Blanchett as Richard II. Rabe was once described by Melbourne theatre critic Alison Croggon as having the sort of presence that "makes shy people swallow hard and lesser mortals involuntarily bow". She is a long-standing collaborator with the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company. With the works of Shakespeare, Molière, Chekhov, Brecht, Noël Coward, Patrick White and David Mamet forming just a part of her theatrical CV, Rabe has played leading roles on the Australian stage in some of the greatest stage plays of our time. Rabe is a prolific contributor to theatrical life in her adopted country in acting and directing, across a wide range of genres - musicals, comedy and drama.
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Rabe relocated to Australia in 1983 with Australian director, Roger Hodgman. The seventh of eight children, she graduated from the Playhouse Acting School in Vancouver. Rabe was born in Oakville, Ontario, Canada in 1959.