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Jacquie Brennan is an Australian stage, television and film actress. Brennan has appeared in television, film, theatre and voice-over roles. Jacquie Brennan is known for her roles in Bullpitt!, The Hollowmen ,and her most known role in Australian award-winning TV Drama Wentworth as Officer Linda 'Smiles' Miles.
Brennan played Officer Linda Miles in Wentworth.
Brennan joined Wentworth in 2012 when the series had first went into production originally coming into set as a cast reader reading alongside several of the shows actors, Brennan was then hired but was only originally hired for 8 days of filming but was told to read for a "small role" by series set up director Kevin Carlin this role was the role of Linda Miles and the show started airing in its first season in 2013,[1]
Brennan would be in the 'Wentworth 4' alongside Robbie Magasiva, Katrina Milosevic and Kate Atkinson being one of four actors in the series to be in the show since its first season (appearing in episode 2) until filming wrapped for series 9.
Jacquie Brennan as Linda Miles
Brennan's career has also encompassed theatre, film and of course many roles in TV, including many voice acting roles in SheZow as various voices, and in Exchange Student Zero as various voices as well as Monster Beach and Kuu Kuu Harajuku as the voice of Colonel Spyke and Mauve Madison and other various voices respectively, Jacquie has also voiced campaigns for many companies and in 2018 Jacquie was awarded a Voice Over Award for the MacCullum Cancer Centre with a powerful voice over for the centre's ad "Prevent Detect Act".
Brennan's theatre credits include Silhouette, Dangerous When Wet, Milo, Dinkum Assorted, Beach Blanket Tempest and many more, as well as appearing in the Australian Tour of 'Are You Being Served' alongside cast from the Television series..
in 2020 Brennan would appear in Underbelly sequel mini series "Informer 3838" here she played Christine Hodson a real life victim of the Melbourne Gangland War alongside Rhys Muldoon who played Terrence.
Jacquie as Denise Schaap in the Five Bedrooms Series 4 finale
In 2022 Brennan narrated the audiobook 'Wake' and provided voice over work for Channel 7 Police Operations series Police Strike Force.
Jacquie w/ Jeremy Stanford for the 'Warnie' tele-movie publicity photo.
Brennan in 2023 appeared in SBS drama 'Safe Home' and was announced for channel 9's controversial two part telemovie 'Warnie' [2] as Shane Warne's mother Brigitte Warne and appeared in Series 4 of Five Bedrooms returning as Denise Schaap.
Brennan also provided the audio narration for the audiobooks Ripper & Murder Town.
Personal Life[]
Jacquie Brennan is married to Ian Bliss [3] who played Senior Detective Collins in season 6/8. Jacquie and Ian met on set of theatre play Silhouette in 1999, marrying two years later in 2001, they have two children together.
Trivia[]
- Brennan won a Voice Over Award at the 2018 VoVo's For 'Most Emotionally Powerful Delivery' for the Peter MacCallum Cancer Ad 'Prevent Detect Act'
- Brennan provided voice work for several characters on SheZow, Exchange Student Zero and Kuu Kuu Harajuku
- Linda has appeared in every episode excluding the pilot episode
- During a virtual meet and greet in 2021, when asked who she would ship Linda with, Brennan stated that she would ship Linda with Bridget Westfall.
- Brennan revealed the reason behind the cancellation of animation series SheZow was due to a ban on the series in the States lead by the MoA.