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All Saints (season 11)
The eleventh season of the long-running Australian medical drama '' All Saints'' began airing on 12 February 2008 and concluded on 25 November 2008 with a total of 40 episodes. Plot The 11th season opens with the majority of the team held hostage in the Emergency Department at gunpoint, the hospital's pathology lab exploding and a drug robbery underway. This is the All Saints team at its best, with patients to keep alive while their own safety is at risk. The siege unlocks a memory Von Ryan has managed to keep buried for decades and must now deal with. Despite this, Von is supportive when Bart West falls deeply in love with a woman whom he diagnoses with cancer and then later dies. Mike Vlasek donates a kidney to his son and must deal with post-op pain when he can't have morphine. A volatile triangle is formed between Steve Taylor, Gabrielle Jaeger, and Jack Quade with the men coming to blows when personal agendas spill into the professional arena. And finally Dan Goldman and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it is the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. The Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programing—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2022, the Seven Network is the highest-rated television network in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Headquarters Seven's admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste Barber
Celeste Barber (born 6 May 1982) is an Australian comedian and media personality. Early life Celeste was born and raised in Australia, and grew up in the city of Sydney for most of her life. She has a sister. Celeste attended Saint Joseph's College, Tweed Heads. In the early 2000s, she trained in acting in Nepean, Sydney. Career Acting Barber has appeared in various television shows but is perhaps best known for her role of paramedic Bree Matthews in the TV show All Saints and for her roles in Office Correctness and How Not to Behave. Barber was a sketch writer/performer on The Matty Johns Show. She was also part of a film called Burke & Wills which went on to become a finalist at the 2006 Tribeca film festival. She has been a panellist on ''Have You Been Paying Attention?'' and also was a co-host on Studio 10. Comedy Although Celeste started out in acting, she later fell into comedy. Barber states: "I've always been told I've been funny but I always thought funny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down Syndrome
Down syndrome or Down's syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is usually associated with physical growth delays, mild to moderate intellectual disability, and characteristic facial features. The average IQ of a young adult with Down syndrome is 50, equivalent to the mental ability of an eight- or nine-year-old child, but this can vary widely. The parents of the affected individual are usually genetically normal. The probability increases from less than 0.1% in 20-year-old mothers to 3% in those of age 45. The extra chromosome is believed to occur by chance, with no known behavioral activity or environmental factor that changes the probability. Down syndrome can be identified during pregnancy by prenatal screening followed by diagnostic testing or after birth by direct observation and genetic testing. Since the introduction of screening, Down syndrome pregnancies are often abor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Depression (mood)
Depression is a mental state of low mood and aversion to activity, which affects more than 280 million people of all ages (about 3.5% of the global population). Classified medically as a mental and behavioral disorder, the experience of depression affects a person's thoughts, behavior, motivation, feelings, and sense of well-being. The core symptom of depression is said to be anhedonia, which refers to loss of interest or a loss of feeling of pleasure in certain activities that usually bring joy to people. Depressed mood is a symptom of some mood disorders such as major depressive disorder and dysthymia; it is a normal temporary reaction to life events, such as the loss of a loved one; and it is also a symptom of some physical diseases and a side effect of some drugs and medical treatments. It may feature sadness, difficulty in thinking and concentration and a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping. People experiencing depression may have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Dayman
Leslie Ernest Dayman (born 19 January 1938) credited variously as Les Dayman and Les Daymen, is an Australian retired actor best known for his performances on television (serials and telemovies) and film, major small screen roles including ''Homicide'', ''Prisoner'', '' Sons and Daughters'' and '' E Street''. As Career Theatre Dayman was born in Footscray, Victoria, Australia in 1933 and is the son of AFL/VFL footballer Les Dayman. He started a career in theatre in 1955, and thereafter worked as an actor, director and narrator, Television A staple of the small screen, his television career began in 1964, when he appeared in the police procedural crime series ''Homicide.'' As senior detective Bill Hudson he appeared in 104 episodes from 1966 to 1968. In the 1980s, he was a regular cast member in three major Australian soap operas, all of which had international success: in Grundy Television's '' Sons and Daughters'', he played Roger Carlyle, a ruthless shady businessman in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Dean
Nathaniel Dean is an Australian actor and voiceover artist. His most recent performances include Sergeant Hallett in Ridley Scott's '' Alien: Covenant'', as well as colonial Australian settler William Thornhill in ''The Secret River'' for the Sydney Theatre Company. In 2002, he won an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Tony Ayres’ acclaimed '' Walking on Water''. Dean has performed in numerous stage plays, TV series, short films and Australian feature films. He has been the voice of numerous advertising campaigns and productions including ''Recipe to Riches'', the AFL, Victoria Bitter and Holden. Early life Dean grew up in the Yarra Valley region of Victoria. During his final year of high school, he resuscitated a woman at his local swimming pool. This event would later become the subject of Dean’s first dramatic work. After performing in numerous productions in Melbourne’s independent theatre scene Dean auditioned for the National Institute of Dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Strehlow
Wendy Strehlow ( 1958) is an Australian actress, particularly in soap opera and theatre, she has appeared in numerous TV series and tele-dramas but is probably best known for her role as the much loved nurse sister Judy Loveday in the television soap opera ''A Country Practice'', from 1981 to 1986 (217 episodes), for which she won a Logie Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1985. From mid-2005 to 2008, she played the role of Paramedic Lorraine Tanner in the Seven Network medical drama '' All Saints''. Television and theatre roles Other TV credits include: '' E Street'', ''Blue Heelers'', ''McLeod's Daughters'', ''Home and Away'', ''A Step in the Right Direction'' and ''The Saddle Club''. She has appeared in numerous stage productions including, ''The Greening of Grace'', '' Henry IV'', ''The Memory of Water'', ''Travesties'' and the pulitzer prize winning production, ''Clybourne Park''. Personal life Strehlow is originally from the city of Rockhampton, Queensland. She took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Davies
Alexandra Davies (born 8 March 1977) is an English-born Australian actress. She attended Castle Hill High school from 1989 to 1994 Davies graduated from the University of Western Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in Performance In her breakthrough role, Davies played Donna Parry in the Australian police drama '' Young Lions'' in 2002. She was a Most Popular New Female Talent nominee at the 2003 Logie Awards. Davies also starred in the sitcom '' Flat Chat'' and has made guest appearances on '' Water Rats'', ''McLeod's Daughters'' and ''The Secret Life of Us''. In 2005 she also had a very brief role in the film '' Stealth''. Since 2004 Davies has portrayed character Cate McMasters in the medical drama '' All Saints''. She previously appeared in two early episodes of the show as a woman with whom previous character Ben Markham had a fling. Personal life Davies married to Justin "Jay" Hanrahan, a cameraman she met while on ''All Saints'', in January 2008. The couple give a bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Mann
Tracy Mann (born 1957) is an Australians, Australian actress and voice artist. After appearing in a number of television series, she won an Australian Film Institute award in 1980 for movie ''Hard Knocks (1980 film), Hard Knocks'' . She has also won awards in her home country for her work in mini-series ''Sword of Honour (Australian TV), Sword of Honour'' and 2005 movie comedy ''Hating Alison Ashley (film), Hating Alison Ashley''. Early life Born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1957, Mann got her first big break playing Tina Harris in 1970s soap opera ''The Box (Australian TV series), The Box''. She is possibly best remembered to audiences for playing a character who ended up behind bars, deaf biker's moll Georgie Baxter in ''Prisoner (TV series), Prisoner''. Mann played the lead role of guitarist / singer Carol Howard in the 1984 ABC Television (Australian TV network), ABC-TV series ''Sweet and Sour (1984 TV series), Sweet and Sour'', and also played the lead role in polic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Cook
Penelope Cook (13 July 1957 – 26 December 2018) was an Australian actress, stage director, TV presenter and writer. She played roles in the soap opera ''A Country Practice'', as Vicki Dean Bowen from 1981 to 1985, '' E Street'' as lead anchor-character, Dr Elly Fielding, between 1989 and 1991, and ''Neighbours'' in the recurring role of Prue Brown from 2007 to 2010. She was also a presenter on travel show '' The Great Outdoors'' Early life Cook was born in Melbourne, and grew up in Woollahra, Sydney. Her mother was a physiotherapist and her father served in the Royal Australian Navy, based at Garden Island Naval Precinct. After completing high school, Cook auditioned for the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) but failed to gain a place. Instead, her mother helped her get a radiography traineeship at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. A year later, Cook auditioned for NIDA again and was successful. She graduated in 1978. Career Television Cook made her debut on television i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Todd
Sonia Todd (born 1959; Adelaide) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her television roles as Sgt. Georgia Rattray in ''Police Rescue'', Meg Fountain in ''McLeod's Daughters'' and Gina Austin in the soap opera ''Home and Away''. Biography She studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and starred in the play '' Strictly Ballroom'', directed by Baz Luhrmann. She also played the waitress, Sylvia, in the film '' Shine'' directed by Scott Hicks, in the café scene where Geoffrey Rush plays '' Flight of the Bumblebee'' by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov to an understandably stunned audience. Todd is married to Rhett Walton and has two sons (born in 1992 and 2000), the first from a previous relationship. Todd became known from the role of 'Georgia Rattray' in the television series ''Police Rescue'', for which she won for an AFI Award in 1991. She was also nominated for an AFI Award for her role in the four-part mini-series ''The Potato Factory'' (2000). From 2001–0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yael Stone
Jael or Yael ( he, יָעֵל ''Yāʿēl'') is the name of the heroine who delivered Israel from the army of King Jabin of Canaan in the Book of Judges of the Hebrew Bible. After Barak demurred at the behest of the prophetess Deborah, God turned Sisera over to Jael, who killed him by driving a tent peg through his skull after he entered her tent near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh. Name The Hebrew ''ya'el'' means Nubian Ibex, ibex, a nimble, sure-footed mountain goat native to that region. It literally translates to "he shall ascend or go up". As of 2016, ''Yael'' was one of the most common female first names in contemporary Israel. Family Jael has often been understood to be the wife of Heber the Kenite.Frymer-Kensky, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
