Stef Dawson

Stef Dawson was born on Dec 17, 1983 in Australia. Stef Dawson's big-screen debut came with Gestation directed by Ali Russell in 2005. Stef Dawson is known for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire directed by Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne. Stef Dawson has got 6 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Stef Dawson achieved is Prague International Indie Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Stef Dawson plays is The Dustwalker which will be released on Nov 22, 2019.

Stef Dawson is an award winning actress, known most notably for playing 'Annie Cresta' in The Hunger Games Series, as well at the lead in numerous independent films including 'The Paper Store' opposite Penn Badgley, for which she won a best actress award at Oxford International Film Festival, as well as the lead in 'Painted Woman', a female driven western now available on STARZ. Growing up in Australia, she fell in love with an obscure sport called 'Vaulting' (gymnastics on horseback) and still loves to ride. As well as acting, Stef studied Opera extensively and can sing in many languages, including Vietnamese and Mandarin.Stef Dawson has a passion for female driven, diverse and complex stories that shine the light on our humanity to find beauty in the broken bits. Selected as one of 8 women for the Australian International Women in Screen Workshop New York, led by female film and television professionals, she has now transitioned to writer and filmmaker as well as acting, her writing is informed by a career as an actress and a determination to tell vital stories in today's world. She is now a finalist in the ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship with her screenplay 'Two Bridges', which tells the story of an isolated opera student who forms a friendship with an elderly Chinese woman living in 'Two Bridges' New York. Penned before and during the pandemic and the loss of her sister, Stef hopes this film will demystify the 'other' and when the world teaches us to build a wall, build a bridge instead.