Many Australians will have seen actor Naomi Rukavina on stage. “I was Ginny, Hermione, McGonagall, Umbridge and Hooch,” she says of her three years in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, ticking each role off with a finger. “I did a lot.”
But the 40-year-old has just landed her first permanent television role in one of Australia’s most famous shows. In the rebooted Neighbours, Rukavina plays Dr Remi Varga-Murphy who, with her tradie wife Cara (Sara West) and their two sons, are the newest family to move to Ramsay Street.
