Susannah Bayes-Morton
Acting
Biography
Suzannah Bayes-Morton is known for The Tumbler (2008), The Straits (2012) and NCIS: Sydney (2023) After graduating from VCA in 2005, Suzannah appeared in The Man from Muckinupin for Belvoir St Theatre/Melbourne Theatre Company and The Last Highway for Urban Theatre Projects. Her film work includes a part in the much acclaimed The Jammed as well as The Tumbler. Suzannah has appeared on television in a variety of roles in All Saints, The Cut and Wilfred.
Known For
When successful high-flier Frankie Bell is brought crashing to earth by chronic kidney failure she targets an alternate future. Eight years on she is in her second year as a practicing doctor starting her first day in a Renal rotation. Driven to use her second chance to save others, Frankie must confront an ailing health system, and face her toughest challenge - learning to let go.
Pulse
Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama. The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day smugglers, their family business is transporting drugs into Australia and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands.
The Straits
When Jarah loses her husband, her child, her land and her innocence she embarks on a brutal journey of of retribution and revenge that transforms into redemption and reconciliation.