Lo Carmen (also known by her full name Loene Carmen prior to 2012) is
an Australian singer-songwriter, musician and actress. Carmen has
independently released six solo albums in the Americana alt-country
indie rock vein.Carmen was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and
raised amongst its 1970s music and art community. She is the daughter
of rock-jazz-blues pianist Peter Head, founder of The Mount Lofty
Rangers, and has a brother Josh Beagley, a guitarist, most notably
with funk band Swoop. She began performing while accompanying her
father and formed a country band, The Honky Tonk Angels, followed by
garage girl band The White Trash Mamas, 'torch rock' 8 piece Automatic
Cherry, and Slow Hand, an 'obscure country soul covers' band. Carmen
began focusing on a career as a solo singer-songwriter in 2002.Carmen
was discovered at sixteen working in a Kings Cross pizza bar and cast
as the "wild and haunted" Freya Olson in John Duigan's The Year My
Voice Broke (1987). Her performance, and that of her co-stars Noah
Taylor and Ben Mendelsohn, was described as "deeply memorable, central
characters [that] are played by a trio of fine actors in the formative
stages of their careers". She was nominated for an Australian Film
Institute Best Actress award for her role as Freya, 'arguably one of
Australian cinema's most finely developed female characters, evoking
the subtle shades of a burgeoning womanliness.' Ben Mendelsohn calls
it 'one of the greatest films I have made'. Other notable roles
followed including Australian prostitute/whistleblower Sallie-Anne
Huckstepp in the docudrama Blue Murder and Christine in Alkinos
Tsilimidos' gritty drama Tom White, for which she also received
nominations for Australian Film Institute Best Supporting Actress,
Film Critics Circle Best Actor â€" Female 2004 and IF Awards Best
Actress 2004. In 2011, director Kriv Stenders brought Carmen and Noah
Taylor together again in Australian film Red Dog, which was described
in the Australian as a "warm-hearted and thoroughly entertaining
movie". When asked whether she prefers film or music, Carmen explains
'Making and working on music is my lifeblood and what I do every day
but acting is also second nature to me. They are pretty intrinsically
linked in my mind â€" both require commitment to getting a feeling or
a character across, they just use different tools.' Loene Carmen Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter