McLeod’s Daughters star Rachael Carpani has died at the age of 45 after a battle with chronic illness, her family has announced.<\/p>\n
Carpani’s parents Tony and Gael shared the news via a post on Instagram by her sister Georgia on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They said the prominent Australian actress “unexpectedly but peacefully passed away after a long battle with chronic illness, in the early hours of Sunday 7th December”.<\/p>\n
“The family requests privacy at this very difficult time and will be making no further statements,” the statement added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The actress was best known for her role as Jodi Fountain in the Nine Network’s outback hit series, which aired for eight seasons in the 2000s.<\/p>\n
McLeod’s Daughters co-star Bridie Carter wrote that Carpani “is loved and will be missed by you all, around the world”.<\/p>\n
“We love you Carpani. We miss you Rach,” she posted on Instagram.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“May your blessed spirit, so vivid, so full of life, generosity, unique talent, energy, fervour, intelligence, resilience, courage and great humour, and a gentle humility, may you rest in peace.”<\/p>\n
Actress outspoken on key issues<\/p>\n
In her role on McLeod’s Daughters, Carpani was nominated for two Logie awards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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She also joined Home and Away in 2024, telling Channel Seven’s Morning Show last year she was “very excited” to be appearing in the long-running Aussie soap as Claudia.<\/p>\n
“It was one of the most enjoyable times I’ve ever had on a set,” she said.<\/p>\n
Throughout her career, she held roles in a number of Australian and American television programs, including NCIS: Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Carpani was also outspoken on issues on social media, posting frequently about the need to address climate change, domestic violence and the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n
In 2021, marking two decades since the premiere of McLeod’s Daughters, she remarked that it was “literally unheard of to have 5 women as the central cast of a show on TV in Australia”.<\/p>\n
She also used Instagram to talk openly about her diagnosis of endometriosis and adenomyosis in 2021, thanking doctors for helping treat pain she had “white-knuckled” through for two decades.<\/p>\n
“They gave me a voice, and non-judgemental space to voice the fact that I had been in chronic pain basically since I was 13,” she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLeod’s Daughters star Rachael Carpani has died at the age of 45 after a battle with chronic illness,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9716,17242,64,63,1300,134,2582,192502,192503],"class_list":{"0":"post-349732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-actress","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-death","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-family","15":"tag-mcleods-daughters","16":"tag-rachael-carpani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}