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Australian actress

Alice Miriam Olivia Garner is an Australian actor, author, musician, teacher and historian. She is the daughter of Australian novelist and screenwriter Helen Garner and playwright, historian and actor Bill Garner.

Garner's acting career began as a child in the 1982 film Monkey Grip adapted from her mother's 1977 novel of the same name, which Alice featured in as a character, under the name of Gracie. She was nominated for an AFI Award for her role. She starred in Love And Other Catastrophes in 1996, winning the Film Critics Circle of Australia award for best supporting actress, and played the role of Carmen in the popular ABC TV series SeaChange. Other credits include films Jindabyne, Strange Planet and award winning short film Maidenhead, and on television, the role of Caitlin in Secret Life of Us. In September 2001 she and Kate Atkinson (with whom she had worked on SeaChange) founded Actors for Refugees, to counter negative stereotyping of refugees and asylum seekers through public readings by volunteer performers around Australia. In 2014, she joined a team of presenters on three series of a television documentary series about the Australian coastline, Coast Australia (History Channel), hosted by archaeologist Neil Oliver. Garner presented stories about social and cultural history.

Garner became involved in community actions to support her local government secondary school and this inspired her to train in secondary teaching at Victoria University (2013 2014). She worked as a French and History teacher at Albert Park College from 2015 to 2019 and co led the Languages curriculum team with colleague Tasha Brown.