"Five or even two years ago, it was every man, or should I say every woman, for themselves," says actor Helen Dallimore.

The number of successful Australian actors in Hollywood has hit plague proportions.

Btw: I have a million more, these are surprisingly easy to come up with.

Bruce Springsteen's Western Stars, Stef Chura's Midnight, Calexico and Iron & Wine's Years to Burn, Tim Rollinson's Old New Blues, Geof Holmes' Scuttlers & Scoundrels and Barrels of Death and Dressy Bessy's Faster Faster Disaster

Brilliant iconoclast or the laziest artist ever? Charmer or cold fish? Everything of importance in the artist's career is included in the show at the AGNSW.