Aimee Duroux
Aimee Duroux
Actor, Writer & Producer
Aimee Duroux is a Meanjin-based actor, writer and producer. After moving to New York at 18 to study acting, Aimee has since returned to Brisbane and built up a portfolio of credits across film, television and stage.
Biography
At 17, Aimee represented Australia at the World Championships of Performing Arts and was awarded a scholarship to the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. The following year, she moved to Manhattan where she studied screen acting, voiceover and Shakespeare.
Since then, Aimee’s been building a resume across various mediums of performance. Most notably, she’s played Enid in the 2022 touring production of ‘Legally Blonde the Musical,’ worked as a stand-in on Amazon Prime’s ‘The Wilds’ and starred in multiple commercials for brands like RACQ and Drumstick. Look for Aimee on your screens in 2024 as she makes her Netflix debut in a recurring role on ‘Boy Swallows Universe.’
Aimee regularly facilitates school drama workshops across the Brisbane region and is Head of Acting at Red Music & Dance Centre.
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Reviews
The entirety of the cast worked so well as a cohesive collective, it is difficult to describe their performances individually. Each were committed to their character, which had clearly been researched and developed into well-rounded and thought out personalities, and interacted with one another with the familiarity one would expect from members of a sports team. Each brought a powerful intensity, light and shade and above all, energy, to their performance. Each actor was faultless in their execution of dialogue and blocking contributing to the overall professionalism of the show.
Yasmin Elahi - Queensland Stage Critics | Read Full Review Here
#8 Aimee Duroux (a Matilda Award nominee for Ad Astra’s Proof in 2023) is desperate for the Nationals to be held in Miami to fulfil a personal ambition
Beth Keehn | Stage Whispers - Read Full Review Here
Aimee Duroux is a comedic genius in this production as Catherine’s distant but loving sister Claire. Stepping back into Catherine’s life, Claire attempts to take over and care for Catherine, even though she keeps pushing back. Duroux brought a much-needed lightheartedness to this production and was a solid rock actor throughout.
Jake Goodall - Theatre Haus | Read more
“Aimee Duroux charmed as Catherine’s over-bearing, successful sister Claire, who swoops in to ‘save the day’. Her Claire was played almost as the comic relief but was simultaneously presented as a complex character who carried her own pain and sacrifices. The tension between the two sisters was played out beautifully between Gerard and Duroux, with moments of genuine affection working against their conflicting character differences.”
Grace Swadling - Theatre Travels | Read more
“Catherine’s sister, Claire, is a pushy New Yorker, delightfully brought to life by Aimee Duroux. Aimee studied in New York, so she brings an authenticity – and much humour – to the role.”
Beth Keehn - Stage Whispers | Read more
“Aimee Duroux is also wonderful as Catherine’s estranged, but still protective, older sister Claire, who arrives from her comfortable life as a currency analyst in New York for Robert’s funeral. Claire’s obnoxious first appearance is a joy thanks to Duroux’s considered dialogue delivery. Her practical focus, in juxtaposition to Catherine’s, not only has seen the bills paid while Catherine provided Robert’s care, but ensures Catherine the promise of a new life (in also anticipation of an coming mental breakdown). And it provides a memorable character juxtaposition when Claire appears authentically hunger over following drinking with hard core partying theoretical physicists at the out-of-control funeral reception after which Catherine and Hal share beer, kisses, confessions, memories of their four-years-ago meeting and more. Together Duroux and Gerard capture hint of a between-sister banter despite their passive aggressive interactions and obvious lack of closeness.”
Meredith Walker - Blue Curtains | Read more
“Aimee Duroux (Thor: Ragnarok (Marvel), Toasted TV (Channel 11), who played Alison, has a real future in physical comedy, her timing was good and for me, she was the standout of the night.”
Claudia Bianchi | Weekend Notes | Read full review
“Aimee Duroux (Thor: Ragnarok (Marvel), Toasted TV (Channel 11), who played Alison, has a real future in physical comedy, her timing was good and for me, she was the standout of the night.”
Alex Bayliss | Stage Whispers | Read full review
“Some of the plays I have seen during the 2017 Anywhere Festival promised hilarity and great humour. In contrast, the promotional material for ‘Signs’ promised neither, but writer Aimee Duroux, and Director Samantha Bull, have created a really funny and enjoyable show, using words and silences to great effect.”
Catherine Lawrence | Creative Futures | Read full review
“Stealing the show as the comic relief was Aimee Duroux with her ‘Gretchen Wieners’ inspired Alison. As Wing Attack and the keeper of all the secrets, Duroux was engaging and funny. She brought much-needed light to a frequently extreme production. Her comedy was dependable and delivered with gusto.”
Elodie Boal | Theatre Haus| Read full review
“Headlining the emotional turmoil is Alison (Aimee Duroux) as she squeals and shrieks her frustrated impatience and spreads her doubt in herself and her company like a disease infesting her team mates minds. Duroux is feisty and funny in her quick deliveries while managing to combine her role as the comic relief with an unsettling core of rage and pain..”
Rhumer Diball | Downstage Discernments| Read full review
Other Theatre/Fim/TV and Commercial
2022 - Boy Swallows Universe (television), Netflix, Actor
2022 - Legally Blonde the Musical (musical), Mad About Theatre, Actor
2021 - The Wilds (television), Amazon Prime, Stand-in
2021 - Drumstick (commercial), The Producers, Actor
2021 - The Honeypot (theatre), QUT, Actor
2019 - RACQ (commercial), Two Little Indians, Actor
2019 - QNMU (commercial), We Are Flip, Actor
2019 - Squad Goals (theatre), Share House Theatre Company, Actor
2018 - The Wishing Well (theatre), Two Braids Collective, Actor + Producer
2017 - Signs (theatre), Two Braids Collective, Writer + Producer
2016 - Thor: Ragnarok (film), Disney, Extra
2016 - Queensland Health (commercial), The Producers, Actor
2016 - Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story (television), Fremantle Media, Actor
Training
2022 - QUT, Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management
2020 - On Set Coaching, Co-Star Material Hunt, Kristy Sexton
2019 - NIDA, Advanced Actors Residency
2018 - Commercial and Screen Acting, Ben Parkinson & Joey Vieira
2017 - Uta Hagen Technique, Peter Rasmussen
2016 - Chubbuck Technique, Anthony Brandon Wong
2015 - Warehouse Workshop, Screen Performance, Tom McSweeney
2015 - QUT, Bachelor of Creative Industries
2013 - New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, Summer Program
Representation
Williams Management
Awards
Aimee Duroux is nominated for a Matilda in the 2023 awards.
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor - Independent Production, Proof (Ad Astra)