Actress. Saskia Steenkamer was born in Martinez, California and spent most of her youth between America and Japan before finally settling in Australia in 1975. In high school, she studied acting and singing. After graduation, she spent a year attending acting workshops and dance classes in Sydney. She then took a degree course in performing arts at the University of New South Wales but gave it up after twelve months to attend a full-time course at The Drama Studio in 1981. Shortly after completing the course, she obtained her first television role as Julianna Sleven, a Dutch refugee in the Australian drama television series, The Sullivans. She also starred as Kerry Mitchell in the popular Australian soap opera, Sons and Daughters. After leaving both shows in 1984, she took part in the John Duigan film, One Night Stand, where she played Eva, a Czech-born bank teller. In 1985, she appeared in the AFI Award-winning film Bliss, as Honey Barbara's daughter which was based on the Peter Carey novel. She then went onto star in yet another Australian soap series, Return to Eden as Jessica Stewart for several episodes. Within the same year, she was landed with her breakthrough feature role in the cult film classic, Dogs in Space. Directed by Richard Lowenstein as a slice-of-life portrait of an odd assortment of characters populating a ramshackle house during Melbourne's punk music scene in 1978. She played Anna, the girlfriend of Sam (Michael Hutchence). She returned to television in the subsequent years with small recurring roles in shows such as Melba, A Country Practice, All Together Now, Ocean Girl, Introducing Gary Petty, Eugenie Sandler P.I., Short Cuts and City Homicide. The final two films on which she starred in were Proof (1991) and True Love and Chaos (1997) Post also appeared in numerous stage productions within Melbourne and Sydney, playing the lead role in Oscar Wilde’s Salome among many others including Vincent in Brixton, Hating Alison Ashley, Endgrain, Train to Transience, Could I Have This Dance?, In Angel Gear and Figures in Glass. Not to mention Rhondda Johnson’s “Skin” which was controversially staged in a Melbourne CBD brothel in 1995. In the remaining years of her life, she settled down in Trentham, a small country town in Victoria where she pursued a career as a transpersonal artist and worked at a local primary school as an integration aide. She was also involved with the local community, in the youth group as a drama tutor, and with the community gardens. In 2020, Saskia passed away suddenly in the Alfred Hospital ICU from cardiac arrest. It was brought on by a congenital heart issue on which she struggled with in the years prior and was being treated for in the hospital before her death.