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{{short description|Australian actress}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| name            = Sigrid Thornton
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|AO}}
| image           = Sigrid Thornton (cropped).jpg
| caption         = Thornton in 2012
| birth_name      = Sigrid Madeline Thornton
| birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|1959|2|12|df=y}}
| birth_place     = [[Canberra]], Australia 
| other_names     = 
| occupation      = {{hlist|stage and screen actress}}
| years_active    = 1973–present
| spouse          = Tom Burstall (1981–present)
| children        = 2
}}

'''Sigrid Madeline Thornton''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (born 12 February 1959) is an Australian film and television actress. Her television work includes ''[[Prisoner (TV series)|Prisoner]]'' (1979–80), ''[[All the Rivers Run]]'' (1983), ''[[SeaChange]]'' (1998–2019) and ''[[Wentworth (TV series)|Wentworth]]'' (2016–2018). She also starred in the American [[Western (genre)|Western]] series ''[[Paradise (American TV series)|Paradise]]'' (1988–1991). Her film appearances include ''[[Snapshot (film)|Snapshot]]'' (1979), ''[[The Man from Snowy River (1982 film)|The Man from Snowy River]]'' (1982), ''[[Street Hero]]'' (1984) and ''[[Face to Face (2011 film)|Face to Face]]'' (2011). She won the [[AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama]] for the 2015 miniseries ''[[Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door]]''.