Verity Hunt-Ballard

Melbourne

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Verity Hunt-Ballard has fast become one of Australia’s most versatile leading ladies. Verity is best known for her award winning performance as Mary Poppins in Cameron Mackintosh’s smash hit musical of the same name for which she received a Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical, a Green Room Award for Best Female Artist in a Leading Role in Music Theatre, and nominations for the Sydney Theatre Award, Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical and a Glug Award nomination, Best Female Actor in Music Theatre. In 2014 Verity won her second Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical for her standout performance as ‘Charity Hope Valentine’ in Sweet Charity. In 2015 Verity would also win the Sydney Theatre Award and a Green Room Award for her performance. Verity’s other stage credits include The Last Five Years, Guys and Dolls, Shane Warne the Musical Concert, The Rocky Horror Show and Jersey Boys, Eureka, Virgins, After the Beep for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Metro Street at the State Theatre Company of SA, for which she won a Theatre Critics Award for Best Female Performance.  Verity has appeared in ABC’s The Doctor Blake Mysteries.

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