Madeleine Madden

Madeleine Madden (born January 29, 1997) is an Australian actress. She is best known for playing Egwene al'Vere in the Amazon Prime series The Wheel of Time.

Early life and education Madeleine Madden was born on January 29, 1997, the daughter of Lee Madden (Gadigal and Bundjalung) and art curator and writer Hetti Perkins. She grew up in a political family; she is the great-granddaughter of Arrernte elder Hetty Perkins and the granddaughter of activist and soccer player Charles Perkins.

Madden grew up around Redfern, a Sydney inner city suburb, and attended Rose Bay Secondary College.

Career In 2010, at age 13, Madden became the first teenager in Australia to deliver an address to the nation, when she delivered a two-minute speech on the future of Indigenous Australians. It was broadcast to 6 million viewers on every free-to-air television network in Australia.

Madden voiced the protagonist of Ark: The Animated Series, Helena Walker, an Aboriginal Australian character and paleontologist.

Film Madden has starred in short films by Deborah Mailman, and Meryl Tankard and co-starred with Christina Ricci and Jack Thompson in Around the Block.

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