Loene Carmen
Known For: Acting
Biography
Loene Carmen is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, author and actress. Carmen was discovered at sixteen working in a Kings Cross pizza bar and cast as the "wild and haunted" Freya Olson in John Duigan's The Year My Voice Broke (1987). She was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actress award for her role as Freya, 'arguably one of Australian cinema's most finely developed female characters, evoking the subtle shades of a burgeoning womanliness.' Carmen is the daughter of rock-jazz-blues pianist Peter Head, founder of The Mount Lofty Rangers. She had a daughter, singer-songwriter Holiday Sidewinder, in 1990, while in a relationship with American bullfighter Jeremy Sparks. She married actor Aden Young since 2014 and they have two children.
Filmography
2011
- Red Dog as Maureen
2007
- East West 101 as Ruby Irani
2004
- Tom White as Christine
1999
- Strange Planet as Amy
- Praise as Cathy
1998
- The Singer and the Swinger as Ginchy Girl
1997
- Wildside as Naomi Brown
1996
- Twisted Tales as Katie
1995
- Blue Murder as Sallie-Anne Huckstepp
1993
- The Nostradamus Kid as Meryl
1989
- E Street as Mandy
1988
- Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer as Waitress
1987
- The Year My Voice Broke as Freya Olsen
1986
- The Flying Doctors as Stacey Smith