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Paula Arundell
Paula Arundell is an Australian actress and singer. Early life Arundell studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), in Sydney. She graduated in 1995, with a degree in Performing Arts (Acting). Career Arundell has appeared on television in '' Water Rats'', ''Murder Call'', ''Farscape'', '' All Saints'', ''Home and Away'', '' Out of the Blue'' and ''Love My Way'' among others. Arundell's films have included ''Disgrace'', '' Dags'', ''Sample People'', ''Gods of Egypt'', and the upcoming ''Harmony''. As a singer, Arundell performed a version of the Tim Buckley song " Song to the Siren", which was used in the 2006 Neil Armfield film ''Candy''. She also voiced Sonic the Hedgehog in the '' Sonic Live in Sydney'' theme park. She also played an older Hermione Granger in the Melbourne production of ''Harry Potter and the Cursed Child''. In 2021, Arundell joined the cast of ''Neighbours ''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera, which has aired since ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candy (2006 Film)
''Candy'' is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film, adapted from Luke Davies's 1998 novel '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction''. ''Candy'' was directed by debut filmmaker Neil Armfield and stars Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush. ''Candy'', produced by Margaret Fink, was released in Australia on 25 May 2006 and subsequently released worldwide. Plot There are three acts of roughly three scenes each, Heaven, Earth, and Hell. Heaven A poet named Dan and an art student named Candy fall passionately in love, as Candy gravitates to her bohemian lifestyle and love of heroin. Frequently seeking drug money, they borrow from Candy's parents or eccentric university professor Casper, then turn to theft. When Candy sells her grandmother's ring, she has sex with a pawn shop owner for $50. Earth Dan and Candy marry and confront the realities of addiction and family life. Dan purchases the drugs while Candy prostitutes. While considering having sex with men in a pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alice (TV Series)
''The Alice'' was an Australian drama television series created by Justin Monjo and Robyn Sinclair. It was set in the central outback city of Alice Springs. The program began as a successful TV movie, '' The Alice'', that later spun off a regular series. The series proved less popular and was cancelled by the Nine Network on 28 September 2005 after a sharp decline in its ratings. The entire series and original TV movie have since been released on DVD. Cast * Jessica Napier – Jess Daily * Erik Thomson – Jack Jaffers * Caitlin McDougall – Helen Gregory * Simon Burke – Patrick * Patrick Brammall – Matt Marione * Roxane Wilson – Ellie Delaney * Brett Stiller – Toby Delaney * Andrew McFarlane – Hugh Delaney * Anne Louise Lambert – Heaven Daily * Luke Carroll – Michael Anderson * Henry Hereford – Adam Cooper Awards and nominations APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards The annual APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards are presented by Australasian Performing Right Associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children's Hospital (Australian TV Series)
''Children's Hospital'' is an Australian television series that screened on the ABC in 1997 and 1998. There was one series of 13 episodes produced. The series was set in a busy inner-city children's hospital. It followed the stories of the hospital staff, the young patients and their concerned families. Cast * Ian Stenlake as James * Jodie Dry as Charlie * Rachel Szalay as Kris * Gennie Nevinson as Pam * Deborah Galanos Deborah Galanos is an Australian actress of Greek heritage and a National Institute of Dramatic Art acting degree graduate. Before NIDA, Galanos attended Sydney University and UNSW studying Arts & Law. She has appeared in many theatre, television ... as Meredith * Hugh Baldwin as Dave * Ling-Hsueh Tang as Tina * Paula Arundell as Claire * Stuart Robinson as Nigel See also * List of Australian television series External links * {{italic title Australian drama television series Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming 1997 Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harmoney
Harmoney is an online direct personal lender that operates across Australia and New Zealand. The company was established in 2014 to introduce peer-to-peer lending to New Zealand. Harmoney provides risk-priced, unsecured personal loans up to $70,000 and has issued NZD $2 billion worth of loans as of March 2021. Launched in September 2014, Harmoney was the first licensed provider in New Zealand after peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding were enabled on 1 April 2014, following the passing of new financial legislation in New Zealand. Harmoney originally started with peer-to-peer lending but ceased providing retail investors with new loans on 1 April 2020, instead focusing on funding loans to borrowers from a mixture of institutional financing, and lending from its own balance sheet. In Australia, Harmoney obtained its Australian Financial Services Licence from ASIC to operate peer-to peer-lending, but never accepted retail funds. Similarly to New Zealand, the Australian entity fund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disgrace
''Disgrace'' is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication. Plot David Lurie is a white South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his own daughter. He is twice-divorced and dissatisfied with his job as a 'communications' lecturer, teaching a class in romantic literature at a technical university in Cape Town in post-apartheid South Africa. Lurie's sexual activities are all inherently risky. Before the sexual affair that will ruin him, he becomes attached to a sex worker and attempts to have a romantic relationship with her (despite her having a family), which she rebuffs. He then seduces a secretary at his university, only to completely ignore her afterwards. His "disgrace" comes when he seduces one of his more vulnerable students, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Eggs
''Bad Eggs'' is a 2003 Australian comedy movie, written and directed by Tony Martin. It stars Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin and Judith Lucy, with Alan Brough, Bill Hunter, Marshall Napier, Nicholas Bell, Steven Vidler, Shaun Micallef, Robyn Nevin, Brett Swain, Denis Moore and Pete Smith having supporting roles. Ben Kinnear (Molloy) and Mike Paddock (Franklin) are police officers working for the Zero Tolerance Unit, a special division of Victoria Police. When they accidentally shoot the corpse of a judge several times each, they are reprimanded but investigate his death, leading to several other accidents, for which they are relegated to uniform duty. Through Julie Bale (Lucy), a former police officer and Kinnear's ex, they uncover a conspiracy involving the Zero Tolerance Unit and extending all the way to the Premier of Victoria ( Micallef). Tony Martin's comedic style in the movie blends one-liners and slapstick with more sophisticated humour. The film marked Martin's di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simple People
''Simple People'' (russian: Простые люди) is a 1945 Soviet war film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation. Cast * Yuri Tolubeyev - Yeryemin * Olga Lebzak - Yeryemina * Boris Zhukovsky - Makeev * F. Babadzhanov - Akbashev * Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya - grandmother * I. Kudryavtseva - Varvara * Larisa Yemelyantseva - Sasha * Vladimir Kolchin - Ivanov * Tatyana Pelttser Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser (russian: Татья́на Ива́новна Пе́льтцер; german: Tatjana Peltzer; June 6, 1904 in Moscow – July 16, 1992 in Moscow), was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of t ... - Plaksina * Anatoli Chiryev - Romka * Aleksandr Larikov - Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana & Me
''Diana & Me'' is a 1997 Australian romantic comedy film directed by David Parker and starring Toni Collette, Dominic West and John Simm. Plot An Australian named Diana Spencer travels to London to try to get a glimpse of her namesake, Diana, Princess of Wales. Just as she is about to shake hands with the princess, she is pushed out of the way by a photographer. While she is furious with him at first, they slowly strike up a relationship. Cast * Toni Collette ... Diana Spencer * Dominic West ... Rob Naylor * Malcolm Kennard ... Mark Fraser * Victoria Eagger ... Carol * John Simm ... Neil * Serena Gordon ... Lady Sarah Myers-Booth * Roger Barclay ... Richard * Tom Hillier ... Neville * David Baldwin ... Dog Owner * Victoria Longley ... Pauline Challinor * Marshall Napier ... Bank Manager * Penne Hackforth-Jones ... Pollock * William Zappa ... Phil * Jim Holt ... Detective * Nigel Planer ... Taxi Driver * Celia Dickinson ... Katie * Michael Miller ... Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Spy
Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK. Since its launch in 1999, Digital Spy has focused on entertainment news related to television programmes, films, music and show business to a global audience. As well as breaking news, in-depth features, reviews and editorial explainers, the site also features the DS Forum. History digiNews (1999) In early January 1999, Iain Chapman launched the digiNEWS website, providing news, rumours and information on Sky's new digital satellite platform SkyDigital. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news and information on the UK's new digital terrestrial platform ONdigital. Both sites proved to be popular, attracting a lot of attention from visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Very soon Chapman and Butcher discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to create the digiN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Farlow
''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on 18 March 1985 and airs on digital channel 10 Peach. The following is a list of characters that first appear in the show in 2021, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the show's executive producer Jason Herbison. Curtis Perkins was introduced towards the end of January, and Jesse Porter made his debut in March. Sheila Canning began appearing in April. Evelyn Farlow arrived in August, followed by Britney Barnes in September and Felicity Higgins during October, whilst December also saw the arrival of Wendy Rodwell. Curtis Perkins Curtis Perkins, played by Nathan Borg, made his first appearance on 28 January 2021. The character and Borg's casting details were announced on 3 December 2020, which is the United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Borg is the first actor with a cochlear implant to appear on Australian television. Of his casting, he stated "Grow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighbours
''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera, which has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons and Daughters.'' Although successful in Melbourne, ''Neighbours'' underperformed in the Sydney market and was cancelled by Seven four months after it began airing. It was immediately commissioned by rival Network Ten for a second production season, which began screening on 20 January 1986. ''Neighbours'' went on to become the longest-running drama series in Australian television history. In 2005, it was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame. The storylines concern the lives of the people who live and work in Erinsborough, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The series centres on the residents of Ramsay Street, a cul-de-sac, and its neighbouring area, the Lassiters complex, which includes a bar, hotel, café, police station, lawy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
