Acting
Harrison auditioned for a role on Neighbours in 1995. She was initially unaware the character she was reading for would be Annalise Hartman's (Kimberley Davies) long lost sister, Joanna. The character was Harrison's first major television role. The actress told a writer for the Daily Mirror that it took ten months for her to feel comfortable in her new role. In February 1997, producers told Harrison they were writing her out of Neighbours. She departed on screen on 15 April 1997. For her role as Joanna, Harrison was nominated for Best New Talent at the Logie Awards.
In cinema, Harrison appeared in the Coen Brothers' Intolerable Cruelty, Robert Altman's The Company and in Street Fighter as Nicola.
In 2007 she appeared in an episode of McLeod's Daughters as Susan.
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“It is not enough to ask, ‘Will my act harm other people?’ Even if the answer is No, my act may still be wrong, because of its effects on other people. I should ask, ‘Will my act be one of a set of acts that will together harm other people?’ The answer may be Yes. And the harm to others may be great. If this is so, I may be acting very wrongly, like the Harmless Torturers.”
—Derek Parfit (b. 1943)
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—Dame Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)
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