Anna Torv Biography
Anna Torv is an Australian actress who rose to prominence in the Fox science fiction series Fringe, where she won four Saturn Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series. She was also nominated for a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series as well as a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
How old is Anna Torv? – Age
She is 44 years old as of 7 June 2023. She was born in 1979 in Melbourne, Australia.
Anna Torv Family – Education
Torv was the daughter of Scottish-born Susan (née Carmichael) and Estonian-born Hans Arvid Torv.She relocated to the Gold Coast with her mother and younger brother Dylan when she was six years old, where she grew up, first attending All Saints Anglican School and then completed her education at Benowa State High School, where she graduated in 1996.
She moved to Sydney after finishing high school and enrolled in the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where she graduated with a performing arts degree in 2001. Torv has a strained relationship with her father. Anna Mann dePeyster (née Torv; formerly Murdoch), her paternal aunt, was married to media mogul Rupert Murdoch for 31 years. Torv Murdoch is the cousin of Elisabeth, Lachlan, and James Murdoch through this marriage.
Anna Torv Husband
Torv married American actor Mark Valley, with whom she co-starred in Fringe, in December 2008. The pair had “ended their marriage” several months previously, according to reports in April 2010.
Anna Torv Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $6 million.
How tall is Anna Torv? – Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m).
Anna Torv The Newsreader
She appeared as Helen Norville, the first female newsreader of the ratings-dominant News at Six in the Australian television drama series The Newsreader. Coming to the post during a period of misogyny and sexism creates stumbling blocks in her career, especially as her fragile mental health worsens, and she maps a path to recovery by diving headfirst into a relationship with junior reporter Dale.
The first season was ABC’s highest-watched drama program in 2021, receiving critical acclaim and the most nominations of any show or film at the 11th AACTA Awards. The second season premiered on September 10, 2023. A month later, a third series was formally confirmed for a 2024 airing.
Anna Torv The Last of Us
She appeared as Tess, a hardened survivor and Joel’s smuggler partner in the American post-apocalyptic drama television series The Last of Us. Tess is well-liked in the Boston Quarantine Zone, owing to her fearlessness. During their escort mission, she is protective of Ellie. A mutant Cordyceps fungus infection causes a global pandemic and societal collapse in 2003. Joel, his daughter Sarah, and Tommy depart their Texas home when Sarah is killed by a soldier.
Joel and his partner Tess reside in a quarantine zone near Boston twenty years later. They pay a local dealer for a car battery, which is then sold to the Fireflies, an anti-FEDRA rebel group. Marlene, the Fireflies’ leader, requests that Joel and Tess accompany a teenager called Ellie to the Massachusetts State House. They come upon a soldier who examines them for the sickness and discovers Ellie is infected. Joel murders the soldier, and Ellie claims immunity.
Anna Torv Secret City
She appeared as Harriet Dunkley in the Australian political thriller television series Secret City. Harriet is a former Daily Nation investigative journalist who is now Karen Koutoufides’ Senior Media Advisor. Under the placid facade of Canberra, amid rising tensions between China and the United States, Canberra press gallery journalist Harriet Dunkley pushes her way closer to the truth, uncovering a web of interconnected conspiracies that endangers her career and life, as well as the freedom of every Australian.
Anna Torv Fringe
She appeared as Olivia Dunham in the American science fiction television series Fringe. Dunham is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent with a Northwestern University education who is tasked to examine the proliferation of inexplicable phenomena. She subsequently learns that Walter tested her as a youngster using the nootropic drug Cortexiphan, which gave her remarkable powers. Torv also plays Olivia’s parallel world counterpart, called “Fauxlivia” by the characters of the main reality, as well as William Bell.
Anna Torv Movies
♦ 2024 – Force of Nature: The Dry 2
♦ 2017 – Stephanie
♦ 2015 – The Daughter
♦ 2014 – Heavenly Sword
♦ 2014 – Love Is Now
♦ 2006 – The Book of Revelation
♦ 2003 – Travelling Light
Anna Torv TV Shows
♦ 2023 – The Last of Us
♦ 2021–present – The Newsreader
♦ 2021 – Fires
♦ 2017–2019 – Mindhunter
♦ 2016–2019 – Secret City
♦ 2015 – Deadline Gallipoli
♦ 2013 – Open
♦ 2011 – CollegeHumor Originals
♦ 2010 – The Pacific
♦ 2008–2013 – Fringe
♦ 2008 – Mistresses
♦ 2007 – Frankenstein
♦ 2004–2005 – The Secret Life of Us
♦ 2004 – McLeod’s Daughters
♦ 2002 – White Collar Blue