Magda Szubanski

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Magdalene Mary Szubanski (zh?BAN-skee, born 12 April 1961) is an Australian television and film actress, comedian, and writer. Szubanski has since specialised in television, film acting, and musical theatre.

She appeared in Kath & Kim, Sharon Strzelecki's film, and Babe: Pig in the City (1998) as Esme Hoggett. Reconcognition was her first book published in 2016. She has been named an officer (AO) in the Order of Australia's general division for distinguished service to the performing arts as an actor, comedian, and writer, as well as a campaigner for same-sex marriage in 2017.

Early life and education

Szubanski was born in Liverpool, England, on April 12, 1961. Margaret (née McCarthy) is a Scottish-Irish woman who came from a poor family. Zbigniew Szubanski, her father, came from a wealthy Polish family and was assassinated in a counter-intelligence branch of the Polish resistance movement during World War II. She is a cousin of Polish actress Magdalena Zawadzka.

She attended Siena College, Melbourne, Australia. She captained a team on the television quiz show It's Academic in 1976 as a Year 10 student. Szubanski studied fine arts and philosophy at the University of Melbourne and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Arts in 2016 (degree with distinction).

Personal life

In an interview with Australian television current affairs program The Project, Szubanski came out in a tweet supporting same-sex marriage and claimed that she "absolutely identifies as gay" in a statement on February 14, 2012. Szubanski has referred to herself as "culturally Catholic."

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Career

Szubanski, a writer and performer of sketch comedy, appeared on sketch comedy. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) producers discovered talent-spotted talent in 1985, which culminated in the creation of The D-Generation television sketch comedy show.

Szubanski was one of the creators and performers of the Fast Forward television sketch comedy on the Seven Network, in which she appeared as several characters, including Pixie-Anne Wheatley, Chenille of the Institute de Beauté, Wee Mary MacGregor, Joan Kirner, Michelle Grogan. Lynne Postlethwaite's character appeared on ABC's The D-Generation's first time. It was originally written by John Allsop and Andrew Knight, but Fast Forward co-wrote the sketches and co-wrote her characters.

Gina Riley and Jane Turner wrote and produced the first all-female Australian sketch comedy television program in 1995; Big Girl's Blouse is a fictional television show directed by Gina Riley and Jane Turner. Szubanski joined Riley and Turner in creating sketch characters for their sitcom Kath & Kim. Szubanski had an early introduction to Sharon Strzelecki, a character she had never created.

Szubanski produced, co-produced, and starred Margaret O'Halloran in the Dogwoman series of television films, a detective style film based on the belief that an expert "dog-whisperer" who treats problem dogs inadvertently stumbles upon and solves human crimes in 1999.

She appeared on Who Do You Think You Are in 2009, a satisfaction with her appearance on Who Do You Think You Are? In this book, she discusses her father's Polish Resistance work as well as the life of her shell-shocked Irish grandfather and her sculptor ancestor Luigi Isepponi, half of the duo Burke and Hare, notorious grave robbers and serial killers.

Szubanski resurfaced as Jemima Davies-Smythe on Neighbours starting on September 3rd. On Australian television, her character attended the first same-sex wedding.

On April 8, 2019, she appeared on Chris & Julia's season finale as "Guest Announcer" where she appeared in a variety of roles.

Szubanski was announced as the host of The Weakest Link, the Nine Network's revival of The Weakest Link, on March 9, 2021. It was originally expected to premiere on May 4th, 2021, but it actually premiered on May 25th, owing to a tight production schedule.

Esme Hoggett appeared in the 1995 film Babe. In the City's 1998 sequel, Babe: Pig, she reprised her role. Miss Viola appeared in the animated films Happy Feet and Happy Feet Two, along with director/producer George Miller.

Mrs Lonsdale, the housemaid in The Golden Compass to Lyra Belacqua, was a minor actress in 2007.

Szubanski ventured into musical comedy in 2007, starring William Barfee in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of the hit Broadway musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee's William Barfee. Variety characterized her results as "sensationally strong." "Magda Szubanski as the Eric Cartman-esque William Barfee steals the show," the Australian Stage said.

In 2008, she appeared in a major stage production of Guys and Dolls as a pint-sized gangster Big Jule.

She appeared in the first Indigenous musical film Bran Nue Dae in 2010 alongside Geoffrey Rush, Ernie Dingo, Missy Higgins, and Deborah Mailman. Rachel Perkins, the niece of Aboriginal activist Charlie Perkins' daughter, was the film's producer.

She joined Rush in the Stephen Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 2012.

In 2004, Szubanski introduced the airline Jetstar. In November 2008, Szubanski became a spokeswoman for Jenny Craig, the dying company's Jenny Craig. Jenny Craig, who was weighing 110 pounds and had been diagnosed with sleep apnoea, was paired with sleep apnoea. She had lost 36 kilograms to 85 kilograms by July 2009 and was on the verge of weighing 85 kg. She regained weight after being dropped as a Jenny Craig spokeswoman. However, she was fired as their spokesperson after a weight loss. Jenny Craig was then dropped once more. In 2014, she appeared in Telstra commercials. In 2019, she appeared in an Uber Eats commercial ad referring to fellow Kath & Kim character Kim Craig, but Kim Kardashian turns out to be Kim Kardashian.

Szubanski wrote a memoir in 2015 entitled Reckoning, in large part about her father, Zbigniew Szubanski, who was a World War 2 Polish Resistance assassinated, and exploring issues such as intergenerational trauma, potential genetic inheritance of traumatic memories, and Szubanski's struggles with her own sexuality. At the Australian Book Industry Awards, the book received the TBA and $40,000 Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction and "Book of the Year" and "Biography of the Year" and "Biography of the Year." "Any kind of reader," it would be, according to reviewer Peter Craven, who wrote the book, "a riveting, overwhelmingly poignant autobiography by a woman of genius." It's a book about how someone could live with the fear of losing the stuff they love. It's a tale of passion and death, as well as a teen's obsession with her father. It is an extraordinary tribute to the tragic heroism at the heart of modern life as well as a growing moral scrutiny of womankind. Any library should have it, and every school should teach it." "This is documentary writing of the highest order, and Szubanski has brought an amazing war tale to life," Richard Ferguson wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald, "this is an epic war novel," said Szubanski.

In The Guardian, actress and friend Geoffrey Rush wrote about her book: "I was absorbed in preparing for King Lear when I read the book. The distinctive stature of that particular father-daughter relationship was not lost, and it wasn't unexpected. Magda emerged in the midst of a difficult reckoning: the summation, the doubting, and the Elizabethan idea of paying the bill with one's parents. Her father wanted to forget, but she wanted to remember. The only way forward was to go back. In a reflective minor key, her book riffs a major life. I've got lost in Joyce's Dublin, Woolf's Bloomsbury, the Bronte Sisters' Yorkshire moors. Now I'm enthralled by Magda Szubanski's Croydon, Australia's own collective sub-conscious suburb, whose architecture she deftly identifies as Bauhaus's "bastard child"—I'm sure it is." Reckoning was described by the Premier's Award judges as 'warm, clear, thoughtful, amusing, and profoundly intelligent.' Szubanski's writing is particularly impressive. Her voice has a light certainty, while simultaneously giving narrative and moral support to the larger themes of grief, family, migration, and finding one's place in the world."

Szubanski was elected as an officer in the Order of Australia's general division in 2019 "for distinguished contribution to the performing arts as an actor, comedian, and writer" as well as as a campaigner for marriage equality."

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