From high school to asupporting role on the set ofthe new Underbelly movieis the kind of dream sharedby many an aspiring actor.
FOR MEISHA LOWE that dream has come true. This attractive 20 year-old has just completed shooting in Melbourne in the new Channel 9 telemovie, Undebelly Infiltration – the partly true story of novelist Colin McLaren’s undercover experiences in the Calabrian mafia.
It was 2007 that saw Meisha as school captain at Maleny High School and dreaming of being an actor. She spent a year working at the Maleny Cheese factory before gaining a place at the Actors Conservatory in Brisbane.
She is now halfway through her course but information she has gleaned from other actors has already convinced her that success is as dependent on how well you market yourself, as it is about being a good actor. So Meisha has wasted no time in getting a website organised and is busy assembling a showreel. She has also persuaded the very busy Natalie Hall Management to put her on their books.
Raised at Crystal Waters in Conondale with her two older sisters, Meisha Lowe knew from the age of six that she wanted to be an actor.
“Meisha has always been driven by so much passion and desire to become an actress,” says her mother Helen. “It’s wonderful to see she is truly living her dream.”
Meisha is eager for acting experience and has already had parts in the independent spoof horror film The Killage, which was shot in March of this year at Ewen Maddock Dam on the Sunshine Coast, Still Waters also a horror film shot on the Sunshine Coast and Roland a QUT student film.
Meisha isn’t allowed to reveal her character in Undebelly Infiltration but she did say she wants future roles that are broader than the ‘young blonde beach’ look.
“I would love to play anyone that is different to my current stereotype… really meaty characters”, she told the Hinterland Times.
With a laugh she added, “I would really like to play Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Now, he really is different to me!”
While the stage has its attractions, acting in film and television has become the focus for Meisha Lowe.
“There is certainly more and more happening in Queensland”, she says, “but I will be moving to Sydney or Melbourne when I have finished my course, because that’s where most productions are taking place.”
If focus and determination are any indication of success, it shouldn’t be too long before we see a Logie in the hand of Meisha Lowe.
Leave a Reply