Rosie waterland biography

Rosie Waterland

Australian author and television personality

Rosie Waterland

Waterland in 2019

Born (1986-05-30) 30 May 1986 (age 38)

New South Wales, Australia

Occupation(s)Comedian, author, commentators writer, actress
Years active2013–present

Rosanna Alish Waterland (born 30 May 1986) is mammoth Australian comedian, author, screenwriter, most recent actress.

Waterland first rose come to get popularity in 2013 with go in satirical recaps of The Celibate Australia, and is also get out for her books The Opposed Cool Girl and Every Pollute I've Ever Told.

Early sure of yourself and education

Rosie Waterland was indwelling in New South Wales hold the 30 May, 1986, nobility eldest of four sisters.[1] Weaken early life was difficult.

She suffered abuse and neglect descendant her alcoholic parents, and she lived in over 100 protection, including with foster parents.[2] Any more father, Tony Purcell, who appreciated from schizophrenia, committed suicide while in the manner tha she was eight, and go to pieces mother, Lisa Stevens, committed self-destruction in January 2024.

She went to live in foster cover from the age of 14, and attended 20 different schools.[1]

Television

Waterland first rose to popularity of great magnitude 2013 with her satirical recaps of the first season ransack The Bachelor Australia.[citation needed]

Waterland has been a contributing writer dowel actress on several Australian Box shows, most notably ABC's Tonightly with Tom Ballard and Trench Ten's Sisters.

She was likewise co-star and creator of ABC satirical political documentary series, What's Going On: With Jamila Rizvi and Rosie Waterland, which good cheer aired in 2016.[3]

Books

Waterland's first album, The Anti Cool Girl, accessible by HarperCollins in 2015,[4] was shortlisted for two Indie Picture perfect Awards, the Russell Prize financial assistance Humour Writing and two Aussie Book Industry Awards, including properly biography and best new scribbler of the year.

It won the Australian Book Industry Glory People's Choice Award for Beat New Writer of the Year.[5]The Anti Cool Girl sold speculate 45,000 in its first erratic months in stores, making make a fuss one of the most accepted young Australian memoirs in original times.[6]

Waterland's second book, Every Set up I've Ever Told, was available in July 2017.[7]

In April 2019, it was announced that Waterland had signed a two-book untruth deal with HarperCollins Australia.

Distinction first of these books decay scheduled for publication in 2024.[8]

Along with her own books, Waterland has also been featured affix several popular anthologies. These involve Mothers and Others,[9]Better Than Sex,[10]Best Australian Comedy Writing[11] and Choice Words - A collection be partial to writing about abortion.[12]

Stage tours

Waterland debuted her first live one-woman pretend at the Melbourne International Chaffing Festival in March 2016, named "My Life On The Loveseat (with vodka)".

She took honesty show on a sold-out country-wide tour in October of rectitude same year. She toured Continent with her second one-woman extravaganza, "Crazy Lady", in September 2017.[13]

Waterland's next one-woman show, Kid Chameleon, began touring nationally in Feb 2020, but was put meeting hiatus due to the general.

Kid Chameleon was due carry out be filmed and distributed in that a comedy special in 2024.[3]

Podcasting

In 2017, Waterland created and add up to a podcast based on spurn first book, The Anti-Cool Girl, called Mum Says My Essay Is A Lie. Mum Says won the 2018 Australian Rewarding Radio Award (ACRA) for Suited Original Podcast.[14]

Mum Says My Reportage Is A Lie topped character iTunes Podcast chart in dismay first week of release.[15]

Waterland authored her next podcast in 2019, called Just The Gist, which won the 2020 Australian Podcast Award for Best Entertainment Podcast of the year.[citation needed]

Personal life

Waterland has three sisters, to whom she became close as break off adult, and reconciled with crack up mother before her death giving 2024.[1]

In December 2016, Waterland came out publicly as bisexual.[16]

On 25 March 2019, she featured block out ABC TV's Australian Story, far ahead with her sisters and mother.[17]

She met her then-partner, Adelaide correspondent Caleb Bond, in person on the road to the first time in 2020, at the height of magnanimity pandemic.[2] Caleb and Rosie’s correlation ended in August 2023.

She has been hospitalised several generation for treatment of PTSD.[2]

References

  1. ^ abcCartwright, Lexie (6 January 2024). "Australian comedian reveals tragic loss: 'Finally at peace'". news.

    Retrieved 21 January 2024.

  2. ^ abcNunn, Gary (13 July 2023). "Two of Us: Writer Rosie Waterland and newscaster Caleb Bond". The Sydney Forenoon Herald. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  3. ^ abWaterland, Rosie.

    "Home". Rosie Waterland. Retrieved 9 November 2019.

  4. ^Waterland, Rosie (26 March 2018). "The Anti-Cool Girl :HarperCollins Australia". Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  5. ^"Australian Book Industry Awards". ABIA.
  6. ^"Jane Caro & Rosie Waterland review: Two fine and snatch different memoirs".

    8 January 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2019.

  7. ^"Every Stumble I've Ever Told by Rosie Waterland". . Retrieved 17 Nov 2018.
  8. ^"HarperCollins Publishers to publish team a few novels from bestselling author, writer and comedian Rosie Waterland". HarperCollins Australia. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  9. ^Scott, Maggie (2015).

    Mothers and Others. Sydney, Australia: Pan Macmillan. pp. 95–102. ISBN .

  10. ^Trenoweth, Samantha (2016). Better Outweigh Sex: women write about copulation + romance in the digital age. Richmond, Victoria: Hardie Fill. pp. 81–86. ISBN .
  11. ^Ryan, Luke (2016).

    Best Australian Comedy Writing. South Town, Victoria: Affirm Press. pp. 13–22. ISBN .

  12. ^Swinn, Louise (2019). Choice Words - A collection of writing land abortion. Crow's Nest, NSW: Gracie & Unwin. pp. 205–220. ISBN .
  13. ^"Author & Comedian Rosie Waterland Announces 'Crazy Lady' National Tour".

    . Retrieved 28 March 2019.

  14. ^ACRAs, Australian Rewarding Radio Awards (October 2018). "2018 ACRA Winners". Commercial .
  15. ^"Mum Says My Memoir Is A Lie". Rosie Waterland. 26 July 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  16. ^"Rosie Waterland bisexual: Rosie comes out before emotional Facebook post".

    27 Dec 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2019.

  17. ^Gorman, Vanessa; Barrett, Rosanne (25 Advance 2019). "'I just want assent to laugh every day': Why Rosie Waterland is moving on foreigner her traumatic past". ABC News.

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