I think Catherine McClements is one of the most underrated actors in Australia. Her work over the past ten years has been outstanding, and I don't think she has always got the credit she deserves.
Catherine's movies haven't always been the best (and even she herself says this in interviews), but it's her TV and stage work that makes her such a great actor.
Her TV credits include: Water Rats, Crashburn, Call Me Mum, Sexy Thing, Emerald Falls and she had a special guest appearance on The Secret Life of Us, while she was pregnant in 2001. Recently, she's been seen as a tough yet vulnerable Inspector in Rush, and she plays a psychologist in the Foxtel drama Tangle.
In 2007, I was lucky enough to see Catherine playing Martha in the theatre production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and I thought her performance in that was very, very exceptional. Especially considering she was the new mum to son Quincy, who was only a couple of months old.
But it was her work on Water Rats that made me a fan. Catherine was always believable and it came across in her character. I still get sad when watching her final episode/scene.
