Crownies is an Australian television dramedy series that first screened on ABC1

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 in 2011. The series revolves around a group of solicitors fresh from law school, working with Crown Prosecutors or 'Crownies' who are the public prosecutors in the legal system of Australia, working for the Office of the Department of Public Prosecution. The series is filmed in Sydney, New South Wales, and according to many areas of the city mentioned in the show (eg Annandale), the story is set in Sydney.

The series will run for 22 weeks, with a one hour instalment every Thursday night. It is written by Greg Haddrick, Jane Allen, Kylie Needham, Tamara Asmar, Blake Ayshford, Chris Hawkshaw, Justine Gillmer, Pete McTighe, Stuart Page & Sam Miekle. It is directed by Tony Tilse, Chris Noonan, Cherie Nowlan, Grant Brown, Lynn Hegarty, Garth Maxwell and Jet Wilkinson.

Cast

• Todd Lasance
  Todd Lasance
  Todd James Lasance is an Australian actor and is best known for his role as Aden Jefferies in the Australian soap opera Home And Away.-Personal life:...
  
   as Ben McMahon: A generally lazy lawyer who often gets others to do his work. His father is a high profile lawyer and his grandfather was a policeman. After his grandfather was beaten and left for dead, he was not able to rightly identify the suspect.

• Hamish Michael as Richard Stirling: A genuinely nice guy whose witnesses often fail to show up in court, much to the annoyance of the judge. After finally getting the person who was renting his house to move out, the ceiling collapsed and he was compelled to move in with Tatum and her boyfriend Conrad. To keep Conrad from being jealous, Tatum insisted the Richard pretend to be gay. He originally came from New Zealand
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  .

• Ella Scott Lynch
  Ella Scott Lynch
  Ella Scott Lynch is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Claire Anderson in the medical drama series All Saints.-Early life:...
  
   as Erin O'Shaughnessy: A young lawyer whose problems with alcohol often find her in trouble - usually with men. While drunk, she slept with a reporter who stole a confidential brief from the office of the DPP, while on another occasion she slept with Ben McMahon. Always regrets the consequences, but appears to do nothing to change her behaviour. She had a crush on Rhys, kissed him once, but when she realises that his wife is pregnant, refuses to go any further.

• Andrea Demetriades as Lina Badir: A non-practicing Muslim
  Muslim
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  , she is a dedicated lawyer who is in an ongoing (but secret) relationship with policeman Andy Campbell.

• Indiana Evans
  Indiana Evans
  Indiana Rose Evans is an Australian actress and singer best known for her role as Matilda Hunter in the soap opera Home and Away and as Isabella "Bella" Hartley in the children's show H2O: Just Add Water.-Early life:...
  
   as Tatum Novak: Her father was a notorious gangster
  Gangster
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   - although will not hear a bad word said against him. She is often more pre-occupied with planning her wedding than in the law.

• Jeanette Cronin as Tracey Samuels: The office manager. She loves her pet finch (named Atticus after the main character in To Kill A Mockingbird
  To Kill a Mockingbird
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  ). She is a practicing Catholic
  Catholic
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  . At times she comes across as hard and uncaring.

• Marta Dusseldorp as Janet King: Although not stated, she appears to be the second in charge at the DPP. She is in an ongoing lesbian
  Lesbian
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   relationship and is expecting twins
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  . The pregnancy has put strain on her relationship, however both parties are looking forward to the birth.

• Lewis Fitz-Gerald
  Lewis Fitz-Gerald
  Lewis Fitz-Gerald is an Australian actor and television director who has obtained a Masters degree in Creative Writing, majoring in Communications Studies.- As Actor :* Crownies * Home and Away...
  
   as David Sinclair: The head of the DPP. He is often caught between the need for justice, the public appearance of justice, and the politics of justice.

• Jerome Ehlers
  Jerome Ehlers
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   as Rhys Kowalski: An outside lawyer brought into the DPP to try certain cases. His pregnant wife is also a lawyer, but they are having marriage problems and seeing a counsellor.

• Chantelle Jamieson as Julie Rousseau: A Judge's Associate who sometimes dates Ben.

• Peter Kowitz
  Peter Kowitz
  Peter Kowitz is an Australian actor.His television credits include: Prime Time, Richmond Hill, Chances, Pacific Drive, Water Rats, Wildside, Farscape, Murder Call, Grass Roots, All Saints and Supernova....
  
   as Tony Gillies: A hard bitten, even embittered, lawyer who still gets drunk on the anniversary of the date he lost a particularly brutal case. He is a realist, and seeks to give the young, idealist lawyers an understanding not so much of what is "right", but what is "best" in the circumstances.

• Christopher Morris as Andy Campbell: A police detective
  Detective
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   and Lina's secret boyfriend. He often gets fed up with lawyers who botch the cases that the police
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   have worked hard to bring them.

• Daniel Lissing as Conrad De Groot: Tatum's fiance. He was very suspicious of Richard until Tatum mentioned that he was gay
  Gay
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  . Conrad is now happy for Richard to live in their unit and has, on occasion, sought to find Richard a date.