
Age: 40
female
McNamee secured a role in the Australian soap opera Home and Away playing the role of Lisa Duffy and later went on to star as Sammy Rafter in the television series Packed to the Rafters. In 2009, McNamee was a contestant on the ninth series of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with dancer Stefano Olivieri and they were eliminated before the final. The role of Sammy left McNamee keen to lose the "good girl" image the role created. In the series production breaks she decided to take on different roles. McNamee starred in the horror film The Loved Ones; which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009.

Jessica McNamee

Sheryl Max
for Sheryl Max in The Blood Orchid
Suggested by alexanderarmstrong

In a slick, neon-drenched town cloaked in an atmospheric, cold sludge aesthetic, toxicity isn't just present—it's celebrated. Leading the quiet resistance is Bucky, a fierce, uncompromising punk-rock feminist protester who refuses to stay silent. But when a ruthless crowd of local men brutally beats Bucky and leaves him in a coma just for holding a sign, the town's fragile peace completely shatters. Standing over Bucky's hospital bed is a tactical mastermind (played by Jenna Ortega), offering condolences for the horrific price he paid for his activism. But with broken bones and rock-and-roll defiance, Bucky delivers a brutal manifesto: he doesn't want pity; he wants accountability. His sacrifice becomes the ultimate catalyst. The apology transforms into pure gasoline, igniting The Blood Orchid—not a disorganized, frantic group of friends looking for messy revenge, but a highly functioning, omnipresent shadow syndicate of women who have endured systemic relationship trauma and are ready to weaponize it. Operating like a seamless, clinical machine, the multi-woman society maps out a calculated hit list targeting the town’s most unrepentant "pieces of shit," including the smug country-club golden boy Kenny and the vile Old Man Harold. As the syndicate executes its precise, high-volume vigilante justice, they must simultaneously navigate the town's chaotic collateral damage—chiefly Goofy Gary, a hyper-expressive, loud, and socially oblivious nuisance. Gary isn't a bad guy; he genuinely believes in "equal rights and equal vibes," wanting to hang out with the ladies the exact same way he would with the guys.