Brooke Satchwell

Brooke Kerith Satchwell (born 1980) is an Australian actress and former model. She is known for playing Anne Wilkinson in the soap opera Neighbours from 1995 until 2000. She won the Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent in 1998. Since leaving Neighbours, Satchwell has starred in Water Rats, White Collar Blue, Tripping Over, Dangerous, Packed to the Rafters, Wonderland, and Mr Inbetween. She has also been a panellist on The Panel, Dirty Laundry Live, and Show Me the Movie!

Early life and education Brooke Kerith Satchwell was born in 1980. She lived in Teesdale, Victoria, for most of her early life and has one sibling. She attended Toorak College.

Career Satchwell started acting in 1994, when a casting agent suggested she model in a few television advertisements. She also appeared in the ABC Television musical Harriet. After she had completed work on an advertisement for Just Jeans, a make-up artist advised Satchwell to get an agent. A year later she successfully auditioned for the role of Anne Wilkinson in the daily television soap opera Neighbours. Satchwell decided to leave Neighbours after three years, as she wanted a change. She filmed her final scenes in December 1999, and they aired in April 2000. After Neighbours, Satchwell filmed a small role in the independent film Radio Samurai.

After an appearance on The Panel, Satchwell was later invited back as a panellist. Since 2006, Satchwell has presented a number of episodes of the children's television show Play School. She received her first lead role in a film in Subdivision, which was released in cinemas on 20 August 2009. In 2012, Satchwell joined the cast of the drama series Packed to the Rafters as Frankie, an electrician and employee of Dave Rafter. After three seasons, Wonderland was cancelled due to falling ratings.

In 2014, Satchwell made a guest appearance on the sketch comedy series Black Comedy as Tiffany. She reprised the character in the second series in 2016. She also appeared in the Jack Irish series. 2018 saw Satchwell make guest appearances on Hughesy, We Have a Problem, and the SBS drama Dead Lucky. She also plays Ally, the girlfriend of hit-man Ray Shoesmith, in the black comedy-drama Mr Inbetween. Towards the end of the year, Satchwell replaced Jane Harber as team captain for the second season of comedy panel show Show Me the Movie!.

Satchwell plays park ranger Miranda Gibson, the estranged daughter of Laura Gibson (Sigrid Thornton), in the revival series of SeaChange. Satchwell almost missed the casting call, as she was moving house. Filming for SeaChange and the second season of Mr Inbetween took place concurrently, necessitating frequent flights between Sydney and various coastal locations. She plays the lead in the 2026 Stan drama series Dear Life, for which she won the 2026 Logie Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama.

Other activities Satchwell has promoted charity work as a fundraiser for the Starlight Children's Foundation Gift of a Lifetime, and in joining the fight against sand mining of Sydney's historic Kurnell sand dunes.

In 2009, Satchwell supported Power Shift, a climate-change conference for young people held in Sydney.

Personal life Satchwell's five-year relationship with actor Matthew Newton ended in 2006. Newton was charged with four offences against Satchwell: common assault, intimidation, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Three of the charges were withdrawn by prosecutors, with Newton pleading guilty to the remaining charge of common assault.

On 26 November 2008, Satchwell was in a building which was attacked by terrorists in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. She hid in a cupboard until gunfire ceased.

Satchwell was engaged to film editor David Gross from 2012 until 2019.

Filmography

Television Year Title Role Notes 1996–2000 Neighbours Anne Wilkinson Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent (1998)People's Choice Award for Most Popular Teen Idol (1999) 2000–2001 Water Rats Sophie Ferguson Recurring 2001–2002 BeastMaster Rhana Episodes: "The Crystal Ark" and "Rites of Passage" 2002–2003 White Collar Blue Sophia Marinkovitch Series regular 2004 Small Claims: White Wedding Imogen Television film 2006–2010 Play School Presenter 2006 Tripping Over Felicity 2007 Dangerous Donna McCarthy 2008 Canal Road Bridget Keenan 2010 Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation Herself 2011 The Jesters Herself Episode: "Stunted" 2012–2013 Packed to the Rafters Frankie Calasso Series regular 2013–2016 Dirty Laundry Live Panellist 2013–2015 Wonderland Grace Barnes Series regular 2014–2016 Black Comedy Tiffany Guest 2016 Jack Irish Tina Longmore 2 episodes 2018 Hughesy, We Have a Problem Herself Celebrity problem 2018 Dead Lucky Claire 2018–2021 Mr Inbetween Ally Series regular 2019 Show Me the Movie! Herself Team captain 2019 SeaChange Miranda Gibson 2019–2021 Love On The Spectrum Narrator 2020 ABC Reef Live Herself Co-host 2022 The Twelve Georgina Merrick AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama (2022) 2023 Black Snow Chloe Walcott Written by Lucas Taylor; released on Stan 2023 Inside Sydney Airport Narrator 2024 Triple Oh! Tayls 5 episodes 2024 The Jury: Death on the Staircase Narrator 5 episodes 2026 Dear Life Lillian TV series: 6 episodesDog Park EmmaTV series; 3 episodes

Film Year Title Role Notes 2002 Radio Samurai Ethel 2004 Right Here Right Now Jenny Not distributed 2008 Corrections Amy Perrin Short film 2009 Echo Bella Short film 2009 Subdivision Tiffany Feature film 2019 Ride Like a Girl Therese Payne Feature film 2022 Poker Face Nicole Foley Feature film 2025 Kangaroo Liz Feature film

Theatre Year Production Role Director 1999 Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens Tina Leon Gallagher 1999 Vagina Monologues Herself Caroline Stacey, Adrian Bohm Productions 2000 The Caribbean Tempest Miranda Toby Gough, Holders Season, Barbados 2001 The Graduate Elaine Robinson Terry Johnson, The Really Usefull Co 2010 The Clean House Matilde Kate Cherry