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Helen Scott (actress)
Helen Scott (née Hough) is an actress best known for her work in theatre and on Australian television. She has also appeared in musicals in England. Biography She remains most well known for her role as Matron Marta Kurtesz, an original character in serial ''A Country Practice'' in 1981. Scott played the character utilising an Eastern European accent. Her character was briefly involved in a romance storyline with Dr. Terence Elliott (played by Shane Porteous), however she left the series in 1983, with her character returning to her native Budapest, Hungary with an old friend. She was replaced as Matron by actress Joan Sydney, who would have a long run playing the role of Maggie Sloane until 1990, and then appearing again when the series, which aired originally on Network Seven, was briefly relaunched by Network Ten Network 10 (commonly known as Ten Network, Channel 10 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Country Practice
''A Country Practice'' is an Australian television soap opera which broadcast on the Seven Network from 18 November 1981 until 5 November 1993, airing at 7:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Altogether, 14 seasons and 1,058 episodes were produced. The show was produced at the ATN-7's production facility at Epping, New South Wales, Pitt Town and Oakville, suburbs on the outskirts of northwest Sydney, Australia, where used for most of the exterior filming, with the historic heritage-listed Clare House, built in 1838, serving as the location of the Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital. Many other fictional locations, including Dr. Terence Elliot's (Shane Porteous) medical practice, Frank and Shirley Gilroy's house Brian Wenzel and Lorrae Desmond, the Wandin Valley Church and Burrigan High School where filmed in the Hawkesbury. Several of the regular cast members became popular celebrities as a result of their roles in the series. It also featured a number of native ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Above The Law (TV Series)
''Above the Law'' is an Australian crime/drama television series broadcast on Network Ten from February 2000 to August 2001. The drama showed the life for the residents of an apartment complex which features a police station on the ground floor. Thirty 1-hour episodes were shown, and five episodes remain unaired. Cast * Nicholas Bishop as "Matt Bridges" * Scott Burgess as "Bill Peterson" * Kristy Wright as "Belinda Clark" * Meme Thorne as "Sunny Rodriguez" * Bridie Carter as "Senior Constable Debbie Curtis" * Alyssa-Jane Cook as "Olivia Murray" * Teo Gebert as "Skeez" * Jolyon James as "Constable Stavros" * Dasi Ruz as Vicki Giovanelli Episodes Production details * Creators – Tony Morphett and Inga Hunter * Script Editor – Christine Milligan * Producers – Hal McElroy and Rocky Bester * Executive Producers – Hal McElroy and Di McElroy See also *List of Australian television series Future shows Seven * '' The 1% Club'' (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Soap Opera Actresses
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Judith McGrath
Judith McGrath (21 April 1947 – 20 October 2017) was an Australian actress. McGrath was known for her television roles, including soap opera's ''Prisoner'' (1979–84), as Deputy Governor/Officer Colleen "Poface" Powell, '' A Country Practice'' (1992–93) as hippy Bernice Hudson and for her Logie Award-nominated role in the medical drama '' All Saints'' as Nurse Yvonne "Von" Ryan (1998–2009) and her comedy roles in children's series ''Round the Twist'' as Matron Cecilia MGribble. McGrath was known for playing characters with a dry, often sarcastic wit Early life Born in Brisbane, McGrath began her career at the Brisbane Arts Theatre, and was a member of Twelfth Night Theatre under artistic director Joan Whalley. She also played Grace in the 1969 film '' Age of Consent''. Career McGrath is probably best known to international audiences for her role in the cult Network Ten series ''Prisoner'' as fair-minded but sarcastic Deputy Governor Colleen" Poface" Powell. Init ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Mitchell
Josephine Mitchell (born 21 May 1965) sometimes credited as Jo Mitchell is an Australian actress and playwright with a lengthy career in theatre and television soap operas and serials. Biography Mitchells first major role was in Seven's drama series '' A Country Practice'' as Jo Loveday from 1985 and 1989. In 1990 she played Jane Holland in '' Home and Away'', and has appeared in many of Australia's most popular series including, '' E Street'' (as designer and mother Penny O'Brien), '' Neighbours'' (as Katerina, a wheelchair user) and on '' All Saints'' as a one-episode guest, playing a protective mother who mutilated her husband after she found he had molested their daughter. In 2010, after she returned to Home and Away, albeit as a different character that of Jill Carpenter a dysfunctional alcoholic mother, and the mother of Romeo, played by Luke Mitchell. Both of Mitchell's parents were heavily involved in theatre and she has had an extensive career in her own right in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Pettigrove
Michelle Pettigrove is an Australian actress, well known for her role as alternate medicine nursing sister Kate Bryant in the long-running rural soap opera ''A Country Practice''. She had appeared in the series in a guest role previously, and was brought back in 1991 to play the permanent role of new nurse Sister Bryant Pettigrove has also appeared in several other series, including ''Blue Heelers'', ''Home and Away'' (in 3 different roles), ''Something in the Air (TV series), Something in the Air'', ''Silversun'' and the mini-series ''Brides of Christ''. Pettigrove is married to actor and singer Frankie J. Holden, with whom she has one daughter, Georgia Rose, who appeared in the final night of blind auditions of The Voice (Australian season 11), ''The Voice'' 2022. They both now work on travel shows, particularly those dedicated to camping and caravanning, and are part owners at Tathra, New South Wales, Tathra Beachside (Caravan Park). She is an ambassador for ChildFund (for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Blackman
Andrew Blackman (born 2 August 1965) is an Australian born actor, producer, and director who founded the Complete Works Theatre Company (CWTC) in Melbourne in 1999. Blackman was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and began acting at the age of seven in the play 'Dark of the Moon' staged by the Queensland Theatre Company. He is known for his professional roles as Dr. Harry Morrison in A Country Practice and Don Fry in Mortified. Appearances of the seasoned actor were also made in the Logie Award winning show Utopia oABCand the Stan original series Bloom. Education * Dakabin State High School: Blackman's first public performance was in a high school musical production called "Teen". * Kelvin Grove College of Advance Education: Achieving an Associate Diploma in Performing Arts , Blackman was granted the Elizabeth Bequest Scholarship with TN! Theatre Co., leading to him performing two seasons of Shakespeare with the Grin & Tonic Theatre Troupe. * National Institute of Dramatic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorrae Desmond
Lorrae Desmond (2 October 1929 – 23 May 2021) born as Beryl Hunt, was an Australian Gold Logie-award-winning singer, recording artist, radio and television presenter, character actor, and playwright, with a career that spanned over 55 years both locally and the United Kingdom. She started her career in England, in the vein of entertainer Cicely Courtneidge. She carved out a career as a variety performer, as a singer and radio/television presenter, primarily at the BBC, where she had her own shows during the years of World War II. Returning to Australia she became a popular presenter and remains best known to early local television audiences as hostess of the musical variety program ''The Lorrae Desmond Show'' from 1960 until 1964, while as a variety entertainer and vocalist she made numerous cabaret and TV appearances including ''In Melbourne Tonight'', ''The Graham Kennedy Show'', '' The Kamahl Show'', ''The Ted Hamilton Show'' and appeared on ''Parkinson in Australia'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Wenzel
Brian Thomas Wenzel (born 24 May 1929) is an Australian former actor, comedian, director and singer. He has been in the entertainment business for 75 years, including circus, stage, television and film (including made for TV movies and theatrical release films). After numerous character roles in Crawford Productions serials and films and after appearing in serial Certain Women, he was cast in the permanent role of Sgt. Frank Gilroy, he played from 1981 and 1993. He had a small role in 1995 in serial ''Neighbours'' as Gordon "Flakey the Clown" Orchard. He was also briefly a cast member of ''Rove Live'' in 2009. Early life Wenzel was born to Harold Wenzel, a grocer who served with the RAAF and Kathleen Wenzel in 1929. One of eight, he grew up in South Australia suburbs Mile End, Torrensville and Thebarton. He had an unsettled early life and spent much of his childhood in remand homes run by various organisations including the Christian Brothers and the Salvation Arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
