Bethany Whitmore

Bethany Whitmore was born 7 December 1999, Melbourne, Australia. Bethany is a very creative and uniquely minded individual. She gained her first TV appearance on "Rove Live" (2000) - as a panelist for three "Understanding 5" commercial comedy skits. Following this, at her very first audition, she gained the role of 5-year-old "Jaden" in the US miniseries "The Starter Wife" (2007), which stars Debra Messing, and Judy Davis. Bethany is also the lead voice of 8-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle in Academy Award Winning Director, Adam Elliot's feature film Mary and Max (2009). In 2011 Bethany completed her biggest role yet, playing one of five teenage girls in P.J. Hogan's new feature film _"Mental" (2012)_, which also stars Toni Collette, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber and Rebecca Gibney. Bethany played the role of 12 year old Jane Moochmore, the youngest of the five Moochmore girls.

Summer Suit (2013)

It's summer in the country town of Euroa, 1987. A 10-year-old girl with epilepsy gets a new sense of identity when she discovers a discarded two-piece suit in her brothers' bedroom closet.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rebecca Peniston-Bird
CAST:  Lucy Tyler  •  Damian Walshe-Howling  •  Diana Glenn  •  Zac Soderstrom

It's summer in the country town of Euroa, 1987. A 10-year-old girl with epilepsy gets a new sense of identity when she discovers a discarded two-piece suit in her brothers' bedroom closet.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rebecca Peniston-Bird
CAST:  Lucy Tyler  •  Damian Walshe-Howling  •  Diana Glenn  •  Zac Soderstrom

Mental (2012)

A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.  (more)

DIRECTION:  P.J. Hogan
CAST:  Liev Schreiber  •  Toni Collette  •  Caroline Goodall  •  Anthony LaPaglia

A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.  (more)

DIRECTION:  P.J. Hogan
CAST:  Liev Schreiber  •  Toni Collette  •  Caroline Goodall  •  Anthony LaPaglia

Summer Coda (2010)

Hitchhiking home to a family she's never known, Heidi meets Michael. In the stunning orange groves of country Australia, they embark on an adventure, discovering their secrets and lives may be better shared.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Gray
CAST:  Rachael Taylor  •  Jacki Weaver  •  Alex Dimitriades  •  Reef Ireland

Hitchhiking home to a family she's never known, Heidi meets Michael. In the stunning orange groves of country Australia, they embark on an adventure, discovering their secrets and lives may be better shared.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Gray
CAST:  Rachael Taylor  •  Jacki Weaver  •  Alex Dimitriades  •  Reef Ireland

Mary and Max (2009)

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A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Adam Elliot
CAST:  Toni Collette  •  Philip Seymour Hoffman  •  Eric Bana  •  Barry Humphries

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Adam Elliot
CAST:  Toni Collette  •  Philip Seymour Hoffman  •  Eric Bana  •  Barry Humphries

Girl Asleep (2015)

The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rosemary Myers
CAST:  Eamon Farren  •  Bethany Whitmore  •  Harrison Feldman  •  Tilda Cobham-Hervey

The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rosemary Myers
CAST:  Eamon Farren  •  Bethany Whitmore  •  Harrison Feldman  •  Tilda Cobham-Hervey

Stella & Smiley (2012)

A detached young girl and an old Chinese widower connect in the unlikeliest of circumstances.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicholas Pollock
CAST:  Bethany Whitmore  •  Lawrence Mah  •  Richard Piper  •  Cindy Elliott

A detached young girl and an old Chinese widower connect in the unlikeliest of circumstances.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nicholas Pollock
CAST:  Bethany Whitmore  •  Lawrence Mah  •  Richard Piper  •  Cindy Elliott

Mwah (2017)

A teenage girl on her way home encounters a man who wants her attention.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nina Buxton
CAST:  Bethany Whitmore  •  Joshua Charles Dawe  •  Mayah Fredes

A teenage girl on her way home encounters a man who wants her attention.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Nina Buxton
CAST:  Bethany Whitmore  •  Joshua Charles Dawe  •  Mayah Fredes