Josephine Byrnes

Acting

Josephine Byrnes

Born 1966-12-28 · Connecticut, USA

Josephine Byrnes (born 28 December 1966) is an Australian actress best known for her work in television, including a lead role in Brides of Christ for which she won a Logie Award. Bryne was born in United States, and moved to Hong Kong with her family before coming to Australia in 1971. Prior to taking up acting, she worked as a graphic artist and graduated from NIDA in 1989. Bryne appears to have retired from acting on screen and stage after marrying Peter Gilbert in 2005, and becomes an interior stylist, designer and artist and has two children living in Singapore.

Acting credits

The Matrix Reloaded poster
7.1

The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

The Matrix Reloaded

2003

Oscar and Lucinda poster
6.4

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.

Oscar and Lucinda

1997

Black and White poster
6.2

Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.

Black and White

2002

Twisted poster
8.0

Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's lost his identity... a bored housewife thinks she's found romance... a conman thinks he's made his mark... and a hired killer thinks she's ready to retire. Unfortunately for all of them, they soon discover that there's nothing like reality to get in the way of an otherwise perfectly twisted perspective. Things are never quite that simple.

Twisted

1997

The Man Who Sued God poster
6.3

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.

The Man Who Sued God

2001

Frauds poster
6.2

The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an escalating vendetta with a couple who make an unusual insurance claim.

Frauds

1993

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8.0

Stamford and Carla attend the wedding of a longtime friend of Stamford's, Lee Cheng. When the wedding toast is drunk, chaos ensues when an entire table of guests is poisoned. Only four, including Stamford, survive. The six victims are a mixed bunch, from a major industrialist to a gossip columnist. How can you find the murderer when you don't even know who the target was? Stamford works his way through the false leads and learns much about the underside of the lives of the rich and famous before he uncovers the bizarre truth

Singapore Sling: Midnight Orchid

1995

Kangaroo Palace poster
NR

The story of four young Australians trying their luck in 1960s London.

Kangaroo Palace

1997

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9.0

Flea is spending his vacation at a music camp in a spooky old mansion. But he is more interested in scaring people with practical jokes, than in music.

More Winners: His Master's Ghost

1990