Early Life and Career
Carmen's father is rock/jazz/blues pianist Peter Head. She wrote and publicly performed her first original song aged ten, accompanied by her father. Head played piano on It Walks Like Love and in several of Carmen's former bands, including acting as musical director for Nashville inspired country revue act Honky Tonk Angels, which also featured Justine Clarke and Noah Taylor. After forming a variety of bands across various genres since the early 1990s, Carmen began writing and releasing solo albums in 2002. A review in Australian Stage states "Loene Carmen sits in a magical, rarefied space, somewhere between Tom Waits and Dolly Parton..."
Carmen was discovered working in a Kings Cross pizza bar as a teenager and cast in John Duigan's The Year My Voice Broke (1987) for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute Best Actress award. Other notable roles followed including Sallie-Anne Huckstepp in the docudrama Blue Murder and Christine in Alkinos Tsilimidos' haunting drama Tom White, for which she also received nominations for Australian Film Institute Best Supporting Actress and IF Best Actress. In 2011 Carmen appeared in successful Australian film Red Dog.
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