Marny Kennedy

Biography

Marny Elizabeth Isabella Kennedy (born 21 January 1994 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian actress, singer and model. She is best known for her roles as Taylor Fry in the Australian Children's Television Foundation series Mortified (receiving the Australian Film Institute's Young Actor Award in the process at the 2006 Australian Film Institute Television Awards). She has been in many Australian television series including The Saddle Club, Conspiracy 365, Underbelly Files: Chopper, Wentworth, and Home and Away. Most recently, Kennedy played Melanie in the American biographical film Last Days (2025) about John Allen Chau, a Christian missionary who was killed while attempting to evangelize the self-isolated Sentinelese people.