Hayley McElhinney

Acting

Hayley McElhinney

Born 1974-09-12 · Australia

Hayley McElhinney (born 12 September 1974) is an Australian stage, film and television actress. Graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1999, McElhinney has performed around Australia and in the United States with the Melbourne Theatre Company, Black Swan Theatre Company, Perth Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company. She was nominated for a Helpmann Award in 2007 and was a core member of Sydney Theatre Company's Actor's Company ensemble from 2006 – 2008. She played Sonya in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Uncle Vanya which met with excellent reviews when it played in Sydney (2010), Washington, D.C. (2011)[5] and Manhattan (2012) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acting credits

The Babadook poster
6.5

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

The Babadook

2014

The Gateway poster
5.6

A particle physicist grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for her family.

The Gateway

2018

How to Please a Woman poster
6.3

When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

How to Please a Woman

2022

Proclivitas poster
5.5

Clare is an addict in recovery when her mother’s sudden death turns her carefully measured world upside down. Returning to her hometown, she reconnects with teenage sweetheart Jerry. He’s the one Clare could never stop thinking about. It’s been fifteen years since a tragic accident tore them apart. Now they have a second chance at happiness. But as their love returns, so does the ghosts of the past, threatening Clare’s sobriety and triggering a powerful demonic presence determined to control her.

Proclivitas

2026

Rams poster
6.2

In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley—so the brothers must work together to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together.

Rams

2020

Redd Inc. poster
5.4

Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann. He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences.

Redd Inc.

2012

My Mother Frank poster
5.0

When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.

My Mother Frank

2000

City Loop poster
4.7

City Loop tells the story of six young people who work in a pizzeria, as they struggle to comes to terms with boredom, fear of responsibility and pizzas to go

City Loop

2000

Hearts and Bones poster
6.0

A shell-shocked photojournalist, haunted by what he has witnessed on assignment in Africa, returns home on the eve of becoming a father. When one of his photographs threatens to destroy a Sudanese refugee's new life, the two men are reunited by nightmare events from the past.

Hearts and Bones

2019

They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook poster
5.9

A short documentary about the making of Jennifer Kent's 'The Babadook'.

They Call Him Mister Babadook: The Making of The Babadook

2015

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7.8

A young boy wakes one morning to find his mother crying. He takes his father's rifle from the shed and sets off into the bush. "Pig" tells the story of a boy trying to make sense of the desolate world he lives in and captures a small moment in his life that leaves him changed forever.

Pig

2011