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My Place is an Australian children's television drama series based on the award-winning picture book of the same name by Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins. The series first screened on ABC3 on weeknights at 8pm from 4 December 2009 and aired in the United States on Vibrant TV Network. My Place is produced by Penny Chapman and directed by Jessica Hobbs, Samantha Lang, Catriona McKenzie, Michael James Rowland and Shawn Seet. The series was accompanied by an interactive website for children that allowed them to explore the house that is the series' main setting. It won the 2010 Logie Award for Best Children's Program. On 23 March 2010 Screen Australia announced they approved funding for a second series which would focus on the lives of children and their families from the time period of 1878 to before the White Settlement. The first of thirteen episodes aired on 26 June 2011.

Synopsis[]

My Place tells the story of one house in South Sydney as told by the generations of children who have lived there over a period of over 220 years. The series opens in 2008 and travels back to pre-1788. Each episode centres around a child with a talent for some kind of trouble, each hiding up the same old fig tree, each with a story to tell.

Cast[]

Children[]

  • Joseph Ireland as Davey Jonesy
  • Maddie Madden as Laura
  • Narek Armaganian as Mohammed
  • Sheena Pham as Lily
  • Will Cottle as Mike
  • Anastasia Feneri as Sofia
  • Jonathan Kollias as Michaelis
  • Monique Holmes as Jen
  • Alfred Carslake as Colum
  • Holly Fraser as Bridie
  • Shardyn Fahey-Leigh as Bertie
  • Lucy Howroyd as Evelyn
  • Benson Anthony as Rowley
  • Eliza Saville as Victoria
  • Jared Ziegler as Dan

Adults[]

  • Leah Purcell as Ellen
  • Kiah Ferguson as Ellen's daughter
  • Anita Hegh as Emma
  • Wadih Dona as Omar
  • Kris McQuade as Grandma
  • Nicholas Papademetriou as Michaelis
  • Victoria Haralabidou as Mama
  • Rebecca Massey as Mrs Benson
  • Susie Porter as Miss Muller
  • Emma Lung as Bridie
  • Chris Haywood as Momo
  • Dan Spielman as Irish Tradesman
  • Leon Ford as Vernon
  • Sacha Horler as Elsie
  • Russell Dykstra as Mr Merry
  • Dan Wyllie as Victoria's Father
  • Tom Fisher as Dom Cobb
  • Erol Cimen as Tyler Cromm
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