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Samara Weaving and Margot Robbie have more in common than looking alike. They are Australian actresses who acted in the same film - Babylon (2022). They have also kissed other women on camera. In Babylon, Margot kissed Li Jun Li. In The Babysitter (2017), Samara kissed Bella Thorne. In Bad Girl (2016), Samara kissed Australian actress Sara West. The latter has a butch director girlfriend named Harry Lloyd, who even wrote and directed a short film called Butch (2019). Below are more examples of Aussie actresses having sapphic connections…
Emily Browning (1) kissed Megan Ketch and Maura Tierney in the same episode of The Affair (2018). Emily also kissed Yetide Badaki in an episode of American Gods (2019). Another example of an Aussie actress kissing a Nigerian woman can be seen in Lovecraft Country where Abbey Lee Kershaw liplocked with Wunmi Mosaku. In the above photo, Emily Browning is being kissed by bisexual actress Juno Temple at the premiere of Sucker Punch (2011), whose cast features several actresses who have kissed other women (i.e. Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung and Carla Gugino). Befriending a straight woman can lead a bisexual woman to another. In 2007, Emily Browning met Dannii Minogue at the L'Oreal Fashion Festival in Melbourne. In 2010, Juno Temple and the bisexual Kylie Minogue acted in Jack & Diane where Kylie kissed Riley Keough.
In 2011, Juno was photographed alongside Emily at the Sucker Punch premiere in Los Angeles. Adelaide Clemens (2) is not mentioned in any of the Getty Images captions for Juno attending a Kari Feinstein event at the Andaz hotel in L.A. circa 2014. Nevertheless, Adelaide had sapphic moments in Generation Um (2012) and To the Stars (2019). In the former, she tongue-tipped Bojana Novakovic (3). The latter kissed fellow Aussie Peta Sergeant in an improv play called The Blind Date Project (2013). Peta played a lesbian in an Aussie TV series called Satisfaction (2007 - 2010) where she got it on with Samantha Tolj, Yesse Spence and Tanya Burne. Bojana Novakovic was also in this series. Back to the L’Oreal Fashion Festival in Melbourne, Emily Browning was seen with Stephanie McIntosh - one of the two actresses who participated in the first lesbian kiss in an Aussie soap drama called Neighbours (2004).
Last year, Emily worked with Claudia Doumit (4) on The Fox. In the above photo, they attended the Texas premiere in March of this year. Last decade, Claudia kissed Zoe Kanters in a series called Nasty Habits. In One More Shot (2025), Emily acted with an Aussie lesbian named Anna McGahan. Jessica De Gouw (5) kissed actresses outside of Australia in Dracula (2013), The Walk (2021) and The Couple Next Door (2023). Instead of being merely gay-for-pay, Jessica identifies as queer. In 2023, there was a Vogue article about her being in a relationship with a Sydney-based hairstylist named Sophie Roberts.
Rachael Taylor is another example of an Aussie actress who made people wait. She didn’t kiss bi actress Olivia Thirlby in The Darkest Hour (2011), but she did in White Orchid (2018). Sacha Horler (6) played a lesbian cop in Body Blow (2025). At the Sydney Film Festival last year, she was hugged by Krew Boylan (7). Krew and Zoe Ventoura (8) acted in Wild Boys (2011). The latter kissed Sarah Roberts in Home & Away (2019) and Kayla Radomski in More Beautiful for Having Been Broken (2019). Zoe’s kisses in the latter film may have been responsible for the former’s kiss being removed by the time that the Aussie soap drama aired. Krew Boylan kissed a bouffant-styled Rose Byrne (9) in Seriously Red (2022).
In 2017, Rose and Krew attended Tropfest in Sydney. Photographed beside them was an actress named Pia Miranda, who played two lesbians in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays circa 2014. Krew and Rose can be seen together even earlier when Vanilla Sky (2001) was released in Australia. As for Pia, she was seen with Krew at the 2010 Inside Film Awards in Sydney. In tow was an actress named Jacinta Stapleton, who kissed Kate Kendall in Stingers (1998). Also accompanying the three actresses was the woman who later directed Seriously Red - Gracie Otto. She has directed episodes of two LGBT shows - Heartbreak High and Deadloch. During two days of a Sydney fashion event in 2013, Gracie could be seen with an actress named Phoebe Tonkin.
Phoebe has kissed more women off set than on e.g. Stella Maxwell (the ex-girlfriend of Miley Cyrus and Kristen Stewart). In the below 2025 photo with fellow Aussie actresses, Phoebe can be seen on the far right. Next to her is Aisha Dee, who kissed women in The Bold Type (2020), Look Both Ways (2022) and Accused (2023). Next to her is Jessica McNamee, who hasn’t kissed women on camera but is close enough of a friend to bi actress Ruby Rose that they attended an Ellie Goulding concert together right before they got involved with acting in The Meg (2018). As for the woman on the far left, Bella Heathcote kissed Rebecca Hall in Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017) then kissed both Lauren Maynard and Laura Mennell in The Man in the High Castle (2018).
One of Phoebe Tonkin’s closest friends is Claire Holt, who was born in Australia one year before Phoebe. Claire has kissed women in two U.S. TV shows - Pretty Little Liars (2011) and The Vampire Diaries (2013). Further down the line, she acted in a film with Aussie Alycia Debnam-Carey. The latter kissed Aussie Eliza Taylor in a U.S. TV series called The 100. Alycia became more popular when she acted in a TV series where her mother was played by a lesbian i.e. Kim Dickens in Fear the Walking Dead (2014). The other contender for the mother role was an Aussie named Anna Torv, who already had the experience of kissing other women in two TV shows (third time became the most charming well after Kim was cast). Back to Phoebe, she was also in Babylon (2022). What were the chances of her being cast in a film with two Aussies who are known for resembling each other?
One of Phoebe’s friends is an American actress named Britt Robertson. They acted together in The Secret Circle (2011). Many years later, Britt had a supporting role in a series called For the People where Aussie Caitlin Stasey kissed Susannah Flood. It wasn’t a fluke because Caitlin kissed women in All Cheerleaders Die (2013), Fantasy Island (2021) and Fall Risk (2024). In early 2021, she revealed that her girlfriend was a producer named Erin Murphy-Muscatelli. The connection between Phoebe Tonkin and Caitlin Stasey isn’t indirect because they were seen together at the 2010 Samsung Mobile AFI awards in Melbourne. Similar to Phoebe, Adelaine Kane has kissed more women off set than on. Like Adelaide Clemens, Kane attended a Kari Feinstein event at the Andaz hotel in L.A. (as seen below) except it was in 2017 instead of 2014.
On the subject of 2014, Adelaide Kane was photographed with a fellow Aussie actress (Eliza Taylor) at the CW Network's New York party in Paramount Hotel. As someone who is English, I often wondered why so many of my peers had this obsession about vacationing in Australia. There must be something in the water. Aussie celebrity Sophie Monk locked lips with Kristanna Loken in The Legend of Awesome Maximus (2011) and Amber Tamblyn in Spring Breakdown - a 2009 movie that is not to be confused with another of Sophie’s 2009 movies: Spring Break ‘83. 2009 was really her banner year because she also kissed Anya Lahiri in Life Blood.