Actor and Advocate
Georgie Stone is an advocate for trans and gender diverse children and youth and an actress. She is best known for her work as Mackenzie Hargreaves on the long running television drama Neighbours, as the first trans actor in a trans role on the show and was nominated for Best Daytime Soap Star at the Inside Soap Awards. Georgie has also contributed to the series as a writer and has been invited to participate in other script developments for drama projects.
At just 20 years of age, Georgie was recognised nationally and globally for her activism. In the past four years she has been awarded the GLOBE GLBTI Person of the Year, the Young People’s Human Rights Medal, the Young Voltaire Award, the Victorian Young Australian of the Year, the Australian LGBTI Hero of the Year, the Medal of the Order of Australia OAM and most recently was awarded as 2023 Young Melburnian of the Year award.