Sacha Horler
Sacha Horler is an Australian actress. Her parents were lawyers, but co-founded Sydney's Nimrod Theatre Company in the early 1970s.
Early life and education
Sacha Horler graduated from Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 1993.Career
Horler made her film debut in 1995 with a role in the music-themed comedy Billy's Holiday.Among her Sydney stage credits were featured roles in the one-act play collection Playgrounds and Harold Pinter's theatre classic The Birthday Party. In 1997, Horler was featured in the Australian-produced drama Blackrock, and the following year she appeared in the international hit Babe: Pig in the City.
Horler's breakthrough role was in the 1998 gritty drama Praise, which featured a significant amount of nudity and sex scenes. In 1999, her follow-up supporting role in Soft Fruit required her to gain weight for the part. That same year she had a supporting role in the drama My Mother Frank.
Over the next ten years, Horler appeared in various roles in a number of Australian TV series. The more significant of these were the Australian Broadcasting Corporation comedy TV series Grass Roots in 2000 and 2003, the miniseries Changi in 2001, TV series drama CrashBurn and science fiction drama Farscape in 2003, and drama series headLand and the critically acclaimed Love My Way in 2006.
In 2009, Horler starred in the AFI-nominated Australian drama My Year Without Sex. Since then she has had recurring roles in a number of Australian drama series including Offspring in 2010, Small Time Gangster, legal drama Crownies in 2011, and the telemovie Beaconsfield in 2012.