The Newcastle-raised actor’s most recent role is an award-nominated turn as Noelene in the ABC’s The Newsreader.
Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Michelle Lim Davidson. The 36-year-old is a stage and screen actor best known for her roles inMichelle Lim Davidson: “When I was younger, I would walk past a window, see my reflection and not recognise myself.
No, because I grew up in a family that didn’t look like me. I was the only Asian person at my school until about year 4. It took me a long time to grow out of this, but when I was younger, I would walk past a window, see my reflection and not recognise myself. Later, I heard other adoptees having a similar experience.Absolutely. It’s survival. Recently – with the support of my family here in Australia – I’ve been privileged to meet my biological family.
Yeah. I’d never work on television; I’d never work in mainstage theatre. One agent actually said she wanted to represent me because she’d just “lost her Asian”.] Yeah, she just misplaced her! She said to me, “You should feel privileged that we’re considering you because we only represent attractive people. We consider you attractive enough to be on our books.”I had another agent say, “I’ve got three Asians and that’s quite a lot. I’m one of the only agents in Australia who has three.
Yeah. One of the weird things I’m obsessed with is the concept of home. It’s a topic that I write about a lot; I spend a lot of time thinking about what that means to me. It’s changed a lot over the years. But I was always obsessed with this idea that I wanted to have a little house where the bush meets the sea. So I thought, “Well, that sounds like the south coast of NSW.” Then I went down the south coast and was like, “This isn’t quite it.” It was too flat or something.
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