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An early graduate of WAAPA's prestigious Musical
Theatre degree, Lisa McCune is one of Australia's
most prominent and versatile performers of
stage and screen.  A true 'triple-threat'
who can sing, dance and act superbly,
she continually attracts both popular
and critical acclaim across
a range of disciplines.
 
 
Lisa first came to the nation's attention during the 1990s for her record 10-time Logie Award-winning role as Maggie Doyle on TV's BLUE HEELERS.  However, Lisa's leading lady performances in stage productions such as THE SOUND OF MUSIC and CABARET have firmly cemented her as one of Australia's greatest musical theatre assets.

Despite tremendous career success - including netting half of the 32 awards for which she has been nominated - Lisa is renowned throughout the industry for her extraordinary humility, generosity, professionalism and genuinely down-to-earth nature.

Since the turn of the century, Lisa has had three children with husband Tim, taken on supporting roles in various television dramas and performed in smaller scale musicals.  The current hit Channel 9 action drama SEA PATROL marks her return to major series television, while a principal role in the recent revival of GUYS AND DOLLS heralded Lisa's return to large-scale, commercial musical theatre. 

 
Site Launched: 24th of Feburary 2007
 
McCune makes the right call (21 June 2010)

Rick Molinksky

Melbourne Weekly 

21 June 2010
 

                                                                      

 

Melbourne Weekly's Rick Molinsky finds that Australia’s sweetheart Lisa McCune never phones it in.

 

Lisa McCune arrives in the lobby at the Melbourne Theatre Company, where she's rehearsing for her new play Dead Man's Cell Phone, before I've finished asking the receptionist for a tissue.

 

''Hi,'' she says, bowl of food in one hand, fork in the other.

 

"You don't mind if I eat my lunch while we do this?''

 

''Not at all, but I have a bit of a cold,'' is the first thing that comes out of my mouth.

 

''Ah, I'll match you sniffle for sniffle,'' she replies with just a hint of a smile – instantly as likeable as everyone who's met her says she is. Truth be told, I was expecting to be underwhelmed when I met McCune.

 

I've read all the articles. I know she's been married to film technician Tim Disney for 10 years, they have three children and she loves to cook. I've watched her television shows and I get why they're hits and why both audiences and networks love her and why she has so many Logies. But I'm not expecting her to blow me away. Boy, am I wrong.


As we make our way upstairs, chatting about the photo shoot, I start to understand what all the fuss is all about. McCune is infectious – not in the cold germs kind of way – but in a delightful I-could-hang-out-with-you-all-day kind of way. 

 

Sniffly or not McCune, 39, is full of energy (she'd need to be with three kids and rehearsals for her new play) – and talks excitedly about ideas she has for our cover shoot (''It needs to be something theatrical''). She's put a lot of thought into it, but also listens and welcomes everyone into the creative process. It's delightful and great fun, and you get a real sense of what it would be like to work with her.

 

I can't help think about what veteran producer Hal McElroy said earlier that morning: ''The camera sees right into an actor's heart, and in Lisa's case it sees a wonderful combination of strength, vulnerability and honesty, all of which make her a joy to work with.''

 

McCune doesn't need a camera to turn on whatever it is she has, because it's not an act. Yet she loves being an actor – why else would she be doing a play when she could be spending her break from the hit series Sea Patrol doing other things?
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