Biography
Genevieve Lemon is an Australian actress and singer. She trained at the University of New South Wales and began her career in amateur theatre with the Rocks Players in Sydney before moving into professional television and film in the early 1980s.
She is a frequent collaborator with director Jane Campion, appearing as Dawn 'Sweetie' in Sweetie (1989), Nessie in The Piano (1993), Rahi in Holy Smoke (1999) and Mrs Lewis in The Power of the Dog (2021). Other notable screen roles include Bunny in the series Top of the Lake (2013) and Mrs Wentworth in Ladies in Black (2018).
On stage, Lemon originated the role of Mrs Wilkinson in the Australian production of Billy Elliot the Musical and won the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical in 2008. She has also performed in numerous other theatre productions for major Australian companies.
