Louise Crawford (born 1978 in Queensland, Australia) is an Australian film and television actress, who is a councillor and mayor of the City of Port Phillip.
Crawford first came to notice as Shelley Radcliffe in the 1995 Network Ten soap opera Echo Point.
[3] In 1998–99, Crawford appeared in Breakers, a short-lived soap opera series which aired on Network Ten, as Lucy Hill.
She also appeared on Neighbours as Abby Stafford in 2007 and as Detective Ellen Crabb in 2013, reprising the role again in 2016.
Additionally, she appeared as a regular panellist on Beauty and the Beast, and has dabbled as a scriptwriter, writing episodes of Breakers and Home and Away.