Magda Szubanski

She emigrated to Australia in 1966 with her brother and sister, Polish father and Scottish mother.In 1976, as a Year 10 student at Sienna College, Melbourne, Szubanski captained a team on the television quiz It's Academic.In 1985, whilst performing in a University of Melbourne revue of Too Cool for Sandals, with Michael Veitch and Tom Gleisner, Szubanski was talent-spotted by producers from the ABC network, who convinced her to join up with some other university friends in creating the television sketch comedy show, The D-Generation.In 1989, Szubanski was part of the team that created the television sketch comedy Fast Forward for the Seven Network Internationally, Szubanski is best known for her performance as Esme Hoggett in the film Babe and its sequel Babe: Pig in the City, as well as her recurring character of Furlow on the television series Farscape. In Australia, she is well-known to audiences for her writing and performing skills in several of Australia's most successful television comedy programs; more recently, she starred as Sharon Strzelecki in the highly successful television comedy show Kath & Kim, on the ABC network.