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• Costarred in a Sydney stage production of Cinderella at age 15. 
• Won the first of her three Australian Film Board acting awards playing an unwed mother in her first film, the 1971 drama Stork.
• Has appeared in more than 100 plays in Australia.
• Released her autobiography, Much Love, Jac, in 2005. 
• Had not made a film in 13 years when she appeared in her Academy Award-nominated role in 2010's Animal Kingdom.
• Former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam called her a "national treasure."