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Australian actress (born 1979)

For the journalist who was Rupert Murdoch's second wife, see Anna dePeyster.

Anna Torv (born 7 June 1979) is an Australian actress who has worked extensively in the United States. Her performance as Olivia Dunham in the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2013) earned her four consecutive Saturn Awards for Best Actress on Television, a record for any performer. She portrayed psychologist Wendy Carr in the Netflix period crime drama Mindhunter from 2017 to 2019, and Tess in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us in 2023. She is especially known in Australia for the ABC drama The Newsreader, for which she won two consecutive AACTA Awards. She stars in the Netflix drama series Territory, set in Australia's Northern Territory, which premiered in October 2024.

Early life

Torv was born in Melbourne on 7 June 1979, the daughter of Susan (née Carmichael), of Scottish descent and Hans Arvid Torv (Tõrv), a property developer and radio presenter of Estonian ancestry. At age six, she moved with her mother and younger brother to the Gold Coast, where she grew up, initially attending All Saints Anglican School before finishing her schooling at Benowa State High School, where she graduated in 1996. As of 2008, Torv had been estranged from her father for many years.

Torv's paternal aunt, journalist Anna dePeyster, was married to media mogul Rupert Murdoch for 31 years. Through this marriage, Torv is a cousin of Elisabeth, Lachlan, and James Murdoch.

Following her high school graduation, she relocated to Sydney, New South Wales, where she had been accepted into the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at the age of 17. As she was too young to get an electricity account on her own, and to go to pubs, she decided to take a "gap year", during which she worked as cafe a

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Anna Torv (born 7 June 1979) is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles as Olivia Dunham on the Fox science fiction series Fringe (2008–2013), Wendy Carr in the Netflix crime thriller series Mindhunter (2017–2019), and Tess in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023). Her performance in Fringe earned her four Saturn Awards for Best Actress on Television and nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series.

Early life[]

Torv was born in Melbourne on 7 June 1979, the daughter of Australian mother Susan (née Carmichael) and Scottish-Estonian father Hans Arvid Torv. Her mother is also of Scottish descent. She grew up on the Gold Coast and has a younger brother. She is estranged from her father. Her paternal aunt, journalist Anna Murdoch Mann, was married to media mogul Rupert Murdoch for 31 years; through this marriage, Torv is the cousin of Elisabeth, Lachlan, and James Murdoch. She attended All Saints Anglican School and Benowa State High School, graduating from Benowa in 1996. She graduated from the National Institute

Scottish journalist and author (born 1944)

"Anna Mann" redirects here. For the building, see List of Reed College buildings § Anna Mann. For her niece, the actress who shares her maiden name, see Anna Torv.

Anna Maria dePeysterDSG (néeTorv; formerly Murdoch and Mann; born 30 June 1944) is a British and Australian journalist and novelist. She became known as the second wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and was a director at News Corp.

Early life and education

Anna Maria Torv was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1944 to Jakob Tõrv (anglicised Jacob Torv), an Estonian merchant seaman, and Sylvia Iris Bodfish, a Scottish drycleaner's shop assistant. Her parents had a drycleaning business in Glasgow, until they emigrated to Australia.

After the picnic park that her parents had opened outside Sydney went bankrupt, her mother left the family household. She has two brothers, Jaan and Hans Arvid, and one sister, Karin Elisabeth. Raised Catholic, she attended Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta, New South Wales.

Career

Torv started her journalistic career at the age of 18, working on Sydney's Daily Mirror, and also worked as a journalist for the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

She later served on the board of directors of News Corporation.

Writing

Under the name Anna Murdoch, she wrote the novel In Her Own Image (1985). It is about two sisters

Estate dispute

The succession of Rupert Murdoch describes a court case relating to which of American media magnate Rupert Murdoch's children will gain power and influence over his business interests, in particular News Corp and Fox Corporation. Since Murdoch's retirement and as of September 2024, these have been headed by his eldest son Lachlan Murdoch. The case is known as In the Matter of the Doe 1 Trust.

The issue of succession began in December 2023, when Rupert Murdoch applied to change the terms of his "irrevocable" family trust (established in 1999, as the Murdoch Family Trust, or MFT) to ensure that Lachlan would have full control over News Corp, a mass media and publishing company that manages hundreds of assets, rather than his three siblings Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch, and James Murdoch, have equal voting rights. The court case was held at the Washoe County Courthouse in Reno, Nevada, U.S., in September 2024.

On December 9, 2024, probate commissioner Edmund Gorman Jr. ruled against Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch.

Background

News Corp

Main article: News Corp

In 1952, Rupert Murdoch inherited The News, a tabloid newspaper based in Adelaide, South Australia, after the death of his father Keith. In the years following, he acquired several newspapers in the United Kingdom and the United States, including News of the World, The Sun, the New York Post, and founded Sky News and Fox News. News Corporation, Murdoch's company, later acquired HarperCollins and Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal. In 2013, amid several scandals—including the News International phone hacking scandal, News Corporation divested its entertainments assets into 21st Century Fox and its publishing assets into News Corp. The Walt Disney Companyacquired 21st Century Fox in March 2019. Murdoch's eldest son Lachlan was appointed the chief executive of Fox Corporation following