- Nickname
- Smiles
- Height5′ 5¾″ (1.67 m)
- Jacquie Brennan is an Australian actress and one of Australia's versatile TV actors with a career that has spanned over 30 years appearing in film, theatre and Voice-Over roles. Brennan is known for her roles on Bullpitt! (1997), The Hollowmen (2008) and Brennan's most known role in Australian award winning TV Drama Wentworth (2013) as Deputy Governor Linda 'Smiles' Miles.
Brennan joined Wentworth in 2012 when the series had first went into production originally coming into set as a cast reader reading alongside several of the shows actors who were auditioning for roles, Brennan was then hired but was only originally hired for a guaranteed 8 days of filming was told to read for a "small role" by series set up director Kevin Carlin this role was the role of Linda Miles. Wentworth's first season would air in 2013 and wrap production in 2020 Brennan would appear in 99 episodes of the series and she revealed years later she had originally auditioned for the role of Liz Birdsworth.
Brennan is known for her outstanding talent playing every character role with her heart Jacquie has appeared in many television guest appearances on many Australian TV shows including iconic Australian TV soap Neighbours (1985), Stingers (1998), Dangerous (2007), Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), House Husbands (2012), Five Bedrooms (2019) and many more, Jacquie has also provided various voices for TV shows such as SheZow (2012), Kuu Kuu Harajuku (2015) and voice work in the TV series Exchange Student Zero (2015) and also provided her voice to the movie Babe (1995), and appeared in other productions such as 2010 crime drama movie Animal Kingdom (2010), Jackson's Crew (1986), Temptation (2003) ,Dangerous Remedy (2012) and again provided her voice for the animation production Big Words, Small Stories (2021).
Brennan has also worked extensively in the Australian Theatre Company working in both the Queensland and Sydney theatre companies respectively as well as singing in cabaret acts this would also include a self written one woman show as well as touring extensively alongside 60s spoof group The Harlettes during their Australian Tour as a singer. Brennan's other theatre works include Are You Being Served? on the Australian Tour during its Australian run, Room To Move, Dangerous When Wet, Too Darn Hot, Macquarie, Beach Blanket Tempest, Silhouette and many more.
Often providing a voice-over for either TV or Radio commercial advertising Brennan is also a highly acclaimed and sought after voice over artist as she has provided her voice to many commercials, often providing a powerful message and voice. In 2018 Brennan was rewarded for her efforts with a Voice Over Award or 'VoVo' for 'Most Emotionally Powerful Delivery' for the Peter MacCullum Cancer Centre ad 'Prevent, Detect, Act' and later provided the audio narration for the book 'Blood River' in 2019. In 2020 Brennan would appear in Underbelly adaptation Informer 3838 (2020) where she played real life Christine Hodson a victim of the horrific Melbourne Gangland War.
Brennan was announced in 2022 as part of the cast of the controversial Shane Warne two part tele-movie titled Warnie (miniseries) where she was cast to play Shane's mother Brigitte Warne.
In 2023 Brennan appeared in SBS drama Safe Home in the role of Nicole, and in season 4 of Five Bedrooms reprising the role of Denise Schaap from season 1.
Brennan is married to fellow actor Ian Bliss the two met in 1999 on the set of theatre play Silhouette at an afterparty barbeque and married in 2001 and they have two children together.- IMDb Mini Biography By: PhaseItIn
- SpouseIan Bliss(2001 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenChild
- Often portrays characters that are sarcastic, sassy and with a dry sense of humour. Her role as Linda Miles on Wentworth is just one of those roles.
- Powerful Voice-Overs, providing powerful messages
- Blue Eyes
- Originally casted for Babe (1995) alongside singing group The Harlettes as the characters for the mice singing voices until test audiences couldn't read the start of chapter wording and so was asked to record additional lines of dialogue for the film.
- Has provided voice over work in advertising radio, and many TV commercials.
- Worked extensively in both the Queensland and Sydney theatre companies respectively, this also included Australian tours alongside The Harlettes and alongside the cast of Are You Being Served? during the theatre run of the popular series.
- Won a VoVo for 'Most Emotionally Powerful Delivery' at the 2018 Voice Acting Awards for the Peter Mac Cancer Centre.
- Has provided voice work for multiple characters in multiple animation projects.
- [on Wentworth]: I think its a gift. I still, every time I drive into set, I get so excited, I still have that 8 year old kid in me that goes "I am so lucky."
- [on Wentworth (2013)'s cast handling growing international fame]: Great. I don't think it changes anything. I think it changes us from a social media point of view, that our Instagram accounts we reach out and they reach back to us which is fantastic. But at the end of the day we go to work and make good television and we go home.. It means a hell of a lot for this drama to go around the world, it means a lot.
- [Discussing Linda Miles' 'double life']: It depends on how careful she is. If she doesn't get caught I think she could keep going for a long time. It's a means to an end.
- [on Wentworth (2013) Season 5]: Seeing someone have a happy ending. In our prison world there aren't many happy endings.
- [Discussing Wentworth (2013) episode "Prisoner" during a 2017 Q and A]: Just dealing with Linda's guilt of letting that happen, a line had been crossed she was gutted that she let it happen. And she didn't know what to do, Bea had to actually help her get her act together because she was so shocked. It was absolutely awful.
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