Rachael Blake

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Rachael Morelle Blake (born 26 May 1971, in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian actress who trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. She made her early television appearances on Home and Away (1995–1997) and Heartbreak High (1996), and her first feature film was Paws (1997). Her breakthrough role came as Dr. Maxine Summers in the ABC crime drama Wildside (1997–1998), for which she won the Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actress in 1999. She is married to Australian comedian Tony Martin, whom she wed on 21 December 2003. Her most notable film credits include Lantana (2001, as Jane O'May, for which she won the AFI Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role), Perfect Strangers (2003, Fantasporto Best Actress), Sleeping Beauty (2011, as Clara, directed by Julia Leigh), Truth (2015, as Betsy West, alongside Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford), Gods of Egypt (2016, as Isis), Breath (2017, directed by Simon Baker), and Melody (2014, Best Actress at the Montreal Film Festival). On television she has appeared in Suburban Shootout (2006–2007), The Prisoner (2009), Cleverman (2016), Wolf Like Me (2022), Significant Others (2022), and Eden (2021). She is also a voice-over artist, having narrated the Emmy-nominated documentary Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines (2013).