HIGH COUNTRY Showcase with Leah Purcell
Presented by BINGE
Sunday 11 February
2pm AEST
Hear from one of Australia’s leading actors Leah Purcell, with award-winning roles in theatre, film, and television. High Country is Leah’s first lead role in a television series in which she headlines an international cast including Ian McElhinney, Sara Wiseman and Aaron Pedersen. Leah also serves as Executive Producer and Cultural Advisor on the series.
High County is edge-of-your-seat storytelling. With an epic and ancient landscape of conflicting mythologies – set in a part of the Victorian High Country rarely seen on screen and a character of its own. It is a crime drama filled with twists and turns, spine tingling mystery and a harrowing sense of place. Leah Purcell plays Andie Whitford, a detective who is transferred to the town of Brokenridge. Once there, Andie is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. Over eight episodes a complex web of murder, deceit and revenge unravels to uncover a conspiracy dating back decades. Its high stakes and its High Country.
Cast: Leah Purcell, Ian McElhinney, Sara Wiseman, Aaron Pederson, Linda Cropper, Henry Nixon, Luke McKenzie, Matt Domingo, Geoff Morrell, Pez Warner, Pedrea Jackson, Leah Vandenberg, Nathaniel Dean, Jamie Timony, Annie Chiswell, Travis McMahon, Nicholas Bell, Trisha Morton-Thomas and Shannon Berry.
Featuring
Leah Purcell
A proud Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri woman from Queensland, Leah Purcell AM is one of Australia’s leading actors, with award-winning roles in theatre, film, and television.
Leah headlines the upcoming BINGE Original drama series High Country on which she also serves as Executive Producer and Cultural Advisor. The series is produced by Curio Pictures in association with Rage Media.
Leah stars alongside Sigourney Weaver in the Amazon Studios miniseries The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. Other screen credits include: Shayda, Wentworth, Janet King, Redfern Now, The Proposition and Lantana.
Leah’s feature film directorial debut, The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson - for which she also starred in the lead role, wrote, and produced - received 13 AACTA Award nominations, with Leah winning the 2022 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress, as well as an ADG Award for Best Debut Feature Film.
Throughout her career Leah has received 26 awards and 11 nominations for her work as an actor, writer, director, and producer as well as the 2021 Member of The Order of Australia (AM).
High Country is a VicScreen supported production