Lisa McCune has 10 Logies, but none of them are in her house. “I didn’t know what to do with them to be really honest,” says the actor. So, she donated them. The awards – including four gold Logies won in consecutive years – can now be found at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
McCune has been such a fixture on the Australian screen and stage that her name means something different to everyone. If you draw a line back from her current show – a wildly comedic spin on The 39 Steps – to the start of her career, it twists and curves, moving between stage and screen, across musical theatre, through drama and comedy.
It cuts through Sweat at Sydney Theatre Company at the end of last year, then continues into Taskmaster , through Gloria at Melbourne Theatre Company, The Kin