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Tracy Mann is an Australian actress and voice artist. After appearing in a number of television series, she won anAustralian Film Institute award in 1980 for the filmHard Knocks . She has also won awards for her work in the mini-seriesSword of Honour and 2005 comedy filmHating Alison Ashley.

Born inAdelaide, South Australia,^{[citation needed]} Tracy Mann first expressed interest in becoming an actress at the age of four.^{[citation needed]}

She undertook drama classes as a child, then as a teenager with the Saturday Company, a branch of theState Theatre Company of South Australia (STCSA).^{[citation needed]} Fresh from high school in 1973, she performed inWinnie the Pooh forAdelaide Festival Theatre and joinedActors Equity of Australia.^{[citation needed]}

She subsequently studied in London under Phillipe Gaulier in the 1990s.^{[citation needed]}

Mann got her first big break playing Tina Harris in 1970s soap operaThe Box.^{[citation needed]}

Mann is possibly best remembered to audiences for playing deaf biker's moll Georgie Baxter inPrisoner. She also played the lead role of guitarist / singer Carol Howard in the 1984ABC-TV seriesSweet and Sour,^[1] and the lead role in police dramaSkirts (1990).^{[citation needed]}

Other TV appearances includeThe Sullivans,The Young Doctors,Arcade,Holiday Island,Prisoner,A Country Practice,Cowra Breakout,GP,Sword of Honour,Cyclone Tracy,The Flying Doctors,Sweet and Sour,Boys from the Bush,Janus,All Saints,The Oracle,Ash Wednesday,Bellbird.^{[citation needed]}

She made one-off guest appearances in shows such asGlenview High,Bluey,Matlock Police,Cop Shop,Kingswood CountrySkyways,Good Guys Bad Guys,Water Rats, andBlue Heelers.^{[citation needed]}

Mann undertookvoiceover work as Holophone in an episode of children's science fiction seriesSilversun, and Susie Sponge on the second season of popular animated seriesThe Toothbrush Family. Her other voice acting roles include animated seriesClassic Tales,Kangaroo Creek Gang andTracey McBean (both produced bySouthern Star Entertainment).

In 2024, Mann was announced for theTop End Wedding sequel seriesTop End Bub, where she reprised her role from the film for the television series.^[2] On 8 December 2024, Mann was named in the cast for Foxtel legal dramaThe Twelve.^[3]

Mann's first starring role on the big screen was low budget dramaHard Knocks; she won anAFI award for Best Actress in a Leading Role as a young ex-prisoner being hassled by the police.^{[citation needed]}

She played sister to the main character in New Zealand filmThe Scarecrow (akaKlynham Summer), which was invited to play at theCannes Film Festival.^{[citation needed]} Mann has also appeared in theYahoo Serious movieReckless Kelly,Hating Alison Ashley, andAny Questions for Ben?.^{[citation needed]}

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Tracy Mann has been married to director Scott Hartford-Davis, since March 6, 2022.^[6] She is stepmother to Sebastian, Barnaby, Allegra and India. A breast cancer survivor, Mann underwent a double mastectomy. She is a student of yoga. She claims credit for naming theDivinyls.^[7]

Mann has related her conversion toBuddhism:

"I was sort of unconsciously on a bit of a path... I was doing a show called 'Janus'... I just reached a point that my spirit, my consciousness, had said, "Tracy, enough, Now you have to get it... And I had five weeks off of filming 'Janus' and went toNepal... to go to a monastery to study Buddhism."^[8]

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