Do we like Anna Torv?
Our score: 6 out of 10. Clean on harm and on how she treats people, but there's little on the record about causes, so we can't say more than that.
Anna Torv grew up in the hinterland behind the Gold Coast, raised by a single mum, and moved around enough to attend plenty of schools. She did monologues at home and at local eisteddfods, and a teacher at her high school pushed her to apply to NIDA, which took her.
The road after that wasn't glamorous. She did commercials and stage work, played Ophelia in Bell Shakespeare's Hamlet, then went to London, where she struggled with casting because of her accent. A role in The Pacific and a network test for a show that never aired led to the Fringe audition, and she led that show for five years as FBI agent Olivia Dunham.
Her later work is a good mix: Wendy Carr in David Fincher's Mindhunter, where she told Dazed she found the character's bluntness the interesting part, and Tess in HBO's The Last of Us. Back home she won an AACTA and a Silver Logie for The Newsreader, then led Netflix's outback drama Territory.
On the harm check, we went looking and came back empty-handed. No campaigning against anyone's rights, no conspiracy-theory slide, no dodgy culture-war posts, and nothing in the reporting we could open about the company she keeps beyond mainstream screen drama. That's an honest absence, not a gold star, because she's a private-ish interviewee who mostly talks about the work.
On how she treats people, there's no court record and no reported accusations that we could find. Her interviews are warm: she told Looper that she and her Last of Us co-stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey kept each other going with the giggles on a heavy shoot. In the Women's Weekly she talks about sexism in the industry and the fewer roles on offer for women, so she's at least aware of it.
What's missing is the good stuff. We couldn't verify any named charity or campaign, and the sites claiming she's a big advocate for causes were spammy content farms, so we've left that out. Online chatter about secret weddings, break-ups and retirement is tabloid territory and not worth your time.