Career Boom for Claire

Former Rush actress Claire Van der Boom (pictured, right) not only has a role in The Pacific, but has been cast as a nun in ABC’s new telemovie Sisters of War.

Van der Boom, who was in Melbourne this week for the launch of The Pacific, is now living in Los Angeles, awaiting word on whether US TV pilot Tough Trade, will be greenlit as a series. The latter series is the first original series pilot for EPIX, the new multi-platform entertainment service from Viacom Inc., MGM and Lionsgate, with Jenji Kohan (Weeds) as showrunner.

But she will begin two months work on Sisters of War, to be shot in Quensland.

Sisters of War, a 90 minute telemovie, is inspired by the true story of two Australian women: Lorna Whyte, an army nurse, and Sister Berenice Twohill, a Roman Catholic nun from country New South Wales who was stationed at Vunapope in Papua New Guinea.

In 1942 when the Japanese war machine thundered across South East Asia, a tiny Papuan mission station, Vunapope, lay in its path. Here a handful of Australian nurses took refuge along with 84 wounded Australian soldiers. Abandoned by their commanding officers, they were left to face the Japanese alone.

The telemovie is produced by Pericles Films.

Source: Herald Sun, Coming Soon