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Zoe Terakes Is First Non Binary Actor In Consideration For Best Lead Actor AACTA Award
Ellie And Abbie (& Abbie’s Dead Aunt) which premiered as the opening night film at last year’s Mardi Gras Queer Screen Film Festival.Directed and written by Monica Zanetti, Terakes plays the role of Abbie, the love interest of Year 12 student and school captain Ellie (Sophie Hawkshaw). As the first Australian feature film to open the festival in 27 years, it went on to a nationwide release in November last year.“I’m not a woman, but I also don’t feel entirely like a man,” Terakes told If.
