Anni Finsterer is an Australian actress. For her performance in 3 Acts of Murder she won the 2009 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in Television Drama.^[1]

Finsterer grew up in Canberra, Australia.

Finsterer is a film, teievision and stage actor, voice over artist, director, playwright. author, singer, keynote speaker, coach and teacher (of acting and drama).

Feature films include I Met a Girl, The Flood (both 2020), True History of the Kelly Gang (2019), Sweet Country (2017), Teenage Kicks (2016), Sleeping Beauty (2011), The Boys are Back and Prime Mover (both 2009). She has had significant roles in Bigger Than Tina (1999)^[2][3] and To Have & to Hold (1996).^[4][5]

Recent teievision roles include The Gloaming for Stan, Harrow, Wentworth (season 7), the US TV series Reckoning, Rake, Secret City for Foxtel and Glitch for the ABC.

Her lengthy stage career^[6] has seen her perform in Australia, Asia and Europe, with Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Griffin Theatre Company, Belvoir Theatre Company, La Mama and more. Highlights include playing the title character in Sharon Lilly Screwdriver (Stables Theatre, 1991),^[7][8] and producing and acting in East (Bay Street Theatre, 1988).^[9][10] Other significant roles include playing Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, Ishtar, and the Queen of Hearts on stilts.

Finsterer is also an author - her most recent publication being "Radical Rock and Roll Resilience" (2020) - a personal story of overcoming adversity, combined with strategies of how to live an empowered life.^[11]

She holds a Bachelor of Performing Arts, and a Diploma of Education in Drama and English.

^[14]

In the 1980s Finsterer was involved in two car accidents, having to undergo many operations including skin grafts, facial reconstruction, a hand replacement and an ear reconstruction from her rib cartilage.^[15][16]