Apr 12, 1961

Liverpool, England, UK

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 t... ... (read more...) elevision 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
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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.