Jessica Marais is the only woman nominated for the Gold Logie in tonight’sTV WeekLogie Awards.

The award goes to the most popular person on television, as voted by the public – and Jess, we are behind you 100 per cent.

The 32-year-old mother of one is nominated for her work as the lead role in both Channel Nine’sLove Childand Channel 10’sThe Wrong Girl.

“People love watching strong female characters and hopefully I’m up there representingallall the strong female characters,” Marias told journalist Lisa Wilkinson on the Logies red carpet earlier this evening.

And as for why there is only one woman nominated?

“It’s definitely a political thing. Women are misrepresented in so many ways across so many different industries,” Marias said. “Yet we love watching them.”

That we do.

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Marias’ character onLove ChildDr Joan Millar is strong and vulnerable and, most of all, smart.

She is working in the Kings Cross Hospital in 1969, where young pregnant girls are ‘hidden’ before they’re forced to put their newborns up for adoption. It’s Marias heart, more than anything, that grabs viewers and makes them think –I hope I could be half as strong in such a situation.

Her character Lily Woodward inThe Wrong Girlis all of us.

She is sensitive and hurting and “just wants him to be with me”. She is ambitious and clumsy and her timing is always off. Marias puts a little bit of every woman in Lily. (Post continues after gallery.)

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