Nadine Garner

Plays Detective Senior Constable Jennifer Mapplethorpe.

Nadine Garner was so keen to play a strong police woman with a
chequered past that she relocated from London to Melbourne to take up
the challenge. Packing up her family in the UK where she's been based
in recent years with her cameraman partner and 14-month-old son,
Edan, the seasoned actress is loving every second on the set of City
Homicide.

"It's a really lovely assembly of people and I get on well with all
the cast. They're all great people and make the job really easy," she
enthuses.

The multi-talented Nadine is no stranger to the screen - in fact,
she's grown up in front of the cameras and took out her first award
in 1986 as a 13-year-old when she scored a Logie for her much-loved
role on The Henderson Kids. She received an AFI nomination for her
leading roles in the feature film Metal Skin and the TV drama Raw FM
(1997) and won an AFI for the feature film Mull (1988).

Nadine has featured in some of Australia's landmark television shows,
from The Secret Life of Us to Neighbours, A Country Practice, GP,
Tribe and The Flying Doctors. And she can't wait for the public to
witness her latest role in Aussie TV drama.

"City Homicide provides a great chance to play a strong female
character in a man's world," she says. "It's appealing to play
someone who's very competent and who has achieved a certain amount of
status in their career."

"Jennifer is a modern woman facing dilemmas about her career and
personal choices. She's very much torn between sticking with her
career and being married to her job or focusing on other areas of her
life. From that point of view, it's quite interesting for women to
watch her journey because I think there are a lot of women out there
in the same predicament."

While excited to be back on the Australian small screen, Nadine has
also been keeping busy with work in film and theatre. While seven
months pregnant with Edan, the remarkable Nadine starred alongside
Kerry Armstrong and Barry Crocker in Razzle Dazzle. She's also been
nominated for several awards for her role in "Cabaret", and won a
Green Room award and a Helpmann award in 2004.