Anna Torv was born on June 7, 1979. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. The Australian-born star is originally from Estonia. For her performance as Tess in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023), she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
Anna Torv played a detective in the television series Fringe (2008-2013). The beautiful actress, who made her most important breakthrough with this series, is originally from Estonia.
Anna spent her childhood and youth on the Gold Coast and graduated from Benowa State High School in 1996.
In the same year, she entered Australia's National Dramatic Art School and graduated from there with honors in 2001.
Anna, who played in large and small television series in Australia, gradually became known in the market as these series were also watched in Europe.
Anna Torv (born 7 June 1979) is an Australian actress. Her performance as Olivia Dunham in the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2013) earned her four consecutive Saturn Awards for Best Actress on Television, a record for any performer, and a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. For her performance as Tess in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023), she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
In 2008, she appeared in 5 episodes of the BBC series Mistresses. In the same period, she got the lead role in JJ Abrahams' science fiction fantasy series Fringe, which was very popular and watched.
As the popularity of the series and Anna increased, the series received 11 awards in various categories during its broadcast.
The successful actress, who appeared with the character of Harriet Dunkley in the television series Secret City in 2016, played the character of Wendy Carr in the Netflix series Mindhunter.
Fringe
A new science fiction series appeared on September 9, 2008. She was loved by her audience because she successfully blended both mystery and adventure genres with each other. It has a good score of 8.4 on IMDB and The Journey of Fringe, which is considered one of Abrams' most popular works, lasted 5 seasons in total. The series made its finale and bid farewell to the screens with its 100th episode titled An Enemy of Fate, which was broadcast on January 18, 2013.
Fringe had a passionate following and received rave reviews from critics. However, due to the high production costs and decreasing viewing rates in the following seasons, Fringe Season 6 was canceled by the channel.
The ups and downs of the broadcast life of the production, starring Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, and John Noble, and the interesting events that took place on the set during its broadcast are still talked about today.
August 2021
Anna Torv's new series The Newsreader started on August 15
Channel: ABC (Australia)
Number of Episodes: 6
Screenwriter/Creator: Michael Lucas
Director: Emma Freeman
Cast: Anna Torv, Sam Reid, Robert Taylor, William McInnes, Michelle Lim Davidson, Stephen Peacocke, Chai Hansen, Chum Ehelepola, Marg Downey
Plot: In the story that begins in 1986, Dale Jennings (Sam Reid), an ambitious TV reporter, and Helen Norville (Anna Torv), a news anchor who is described as a difficult person, collaborate to change the news world and become an unlikely team.
The Newsreader will also take the viewer through the passage of Halley's Comet, the AIDS crisis, the explosion of the Challenger spacecraft, or other important news of the period.