Marta Dusseldorp (born 1 February 1973), the granddaughter of Dick Dusseldorp, the founder of Lend Lease. Martha is an Australian stage, film and theatre actress. Her television credits include BlackJack, Crownies (and its spin-off Janet King), Jack Irish and A Place to Call Home. Her story is told in the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) Good Weekend from 2020 and another article in the SMH from a year later.
Marta also featured in one of the SBS documentaries “Who do you think you are?’.
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