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Denby Weller
Denby Weller (born January 8, 1981) is an Australian actress, writer and director of film and theatre. She is best known as "Mika," the lead in Australian horror movie Bunyip, which is due to be completed in 2013, and for which she is also the screenwriter and co-director.

Moving to Sydney from her home town of Toowoomba in 2000, Weller initially enrolled in a Media degree at Macquarie University, but later dropped out, and eventually auditioned for, and was accepted into Actors Centre Australia's prestigious 2.5-year fulltime Acting Program in 2004. She graduated in 2007 with an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts (Acting). Since graduating, she has worked in TV, short films and feature films in Australia, as well as shooting corporate videos and TVCs. Her television credits include the Channel 9 series Crime Investigations Australia and Behind Mansion Walls.

Weller is a skilled rock climber who trained to a world-class level (climbing Ewbank grades in the upper mid-twenties) for the shoot of Bunyip. She performed her own stunts in Bunyip, including climbing a sea-cliff in Sydney and the top portion of a 150-metre wall in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Weller expressed her enthusiasm for performing stunts and has said that she is looking forward to doing more action film roles in the future.

In 2012, she wrote Bunyip, a crowd-funded and crowd-sourced independent horror film. Weller and co-director Miri Stone conducted an international crowd-sourcing campaign in the leadup to the production that resulted in 2 of the film's ensemble being cast from online auditions via YouTube. Their 'Design the Creature' competition resulted in the winning entry being built in the United States by emerging SFX artists and flown to Australia for the shoot. Principal photography took place in and around Sydney, New South Wales, in 2012, and the film is due for completion in 2013. Weller and Stone have gained a wide following of fans and critics for their fan-driven approach to filmmaking, and their controversial decision to make the film's script publicly available prior to the crowdfunding campaign. Category:Actresses