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Stingers (TV Series)
''Stingers'' (1998–2004) is an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program. The series has also aired in 65 countries, including Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Gibraltar, Iran, Ireland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and Papua New Guinea. Inspired by true events, ''Stingers'' chronicled the cases of a deep undercover unit of the Victoria Police. The series also followed their personal lives, which sometimes became intertwined with their jobs. The show received average ratings during its debut season, but after some major changes, including intensive character development, the series became a success the following year. The original cast members include Peter Phelps, Joe Petruzzi, Kate Kendall, Ian Stenlak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikael Borglund
Mikael Borglund (born 1956 in Hässelbystrand, Sweden) is a Swedish film producer in the successful Australian film and television series industry. He is also the managing director of Beyond International, Australia's leading television production and distribution companies. References External links * *Beyond International Beyond International Limited is an international television and film production company with operations in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (), the company is involved i ... Australian people of Scandinavian descent Australian people of Swedish descent Swedish film producers Australian film producers People from Gothenburg 1956 births Living people {{Australia-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Bell
Nicholas Bell (born 15 August 1958) is an English actor who has worked in Australia for more than 20 years. He works regularly with the Melbourne Theatre Company as well as with all the major television broadcasters in Australia, most notably the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In addition to his work in film and television, Bell has also recorded over a dozen audiobooks with Bolinda, a company based in Melbourne, Australia. In 2001 he accepted on behalf of the cast and crew of the Australian comedy series '' The Games'' the TV Week Logie Award for Most Outstanding Comedy Program. Film and television Film * ''Father'' (1990) as Paul Jamieson * ''Hunting'' (1991) as Piggot * ''Gross Misconduct'' (1993) as Detective Matthews * ''The Feds'' (1993, TV Movie) as Stephen Garrard * ''Paperback Romance'' (1994) as Sophie's Doctor * ''Hotel Sorrento'' (1995) as Edwin * '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie'' (1995) as Zordon * '' Shine'' (1996) as Ben Rosen * '' Dark City'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Square
Federation Square (colloquially Fed Square) is a venue for arts, culture and public events on the edge of the Melbourne central business district. It covers an area of at the intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets built above busy railway lines and across the road from Flinders Street station. It incorporates major cultural institutions such as the Ian Potter Centre, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the Koorie Heritage Trust as well as cafes and bars in a series of buildings centred around a large paved square, and a glass walled atrium. History Background Melbourne's central city grid was originally designed without a central public square, long seen as a missing element. From the 1920s, there had been proposals to roof the railway yards on the south-east corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets for a public square, with more detailed proposals prepared in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s, the Melbourne City Council decided that the best place for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcia Gardner
Marcia Gardner is an Australian screenwriter who has worked on such shows as ''The Doctor Blake Mysteries'', ''Paradise Beach'', ''Pacific Drive'', '' Medivac'', '' All Saints'', ''Heartbreak High'', '' Stingers'' (which she script produced), ''Blue Heelers'' and ''Sea Patrol ''Sea Patrol'' is an Australian television drama that ran from 2007 to 2011, set on board HMAS ''Hammersley'', a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The series focused on the ship and the lives of its crew members. Despi ...''. She's currently the Script Producer of drama series Wentworth. References *http://www.australiantelevision.net/sea_patrol/index.html *http://www.australiantelevision.net/stingers/articles/script189.html *http://www.australiantelevision.net/hbh/series4.html*http://www.australiantelevision.net/as/series1.html Australian television writers Australian women television writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{australia-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asher Keddie
Asher Keddie (born 31 July 1974) is an Australian actress. Beginning her career in the television series ''Five Mile Creek'' in the mid 1980s, Keddie received wide recognition for her role in the television series ''Offspring''. Her significant repertoire in television has led to her being dubbed as the 'Golden Girl of Australian Television'. Keddie also had a small role in the film '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'', as Dr. Carol Frost. Aside from television and film work, she has several theatre credits, including in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' as Madame de Tourvel. She won the Logie Award for Most Popular Actress five times in a row between 2011 and 2015. Keddie won the 2013 Gold Logie award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, for her role as Dr Nina Proudman in the Network Ten drama ''Offspring''. She had previously been nominated twice for the award. Keddie has a total of seven Logie Awards. Early life Keddie was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gigi Edgley
Gigi Edgley (born 16 November 1977) is an Australians, Australian actress, singer and songwriter. She is best known for her roles as Chiana (Farscape), Chiana on the series ''Farscape'' and Lara Knight in ''Rescue: Special Ops''. Early life Edgley was born in Perth, Western Australia, Perth. She is the daughter of theatre, concert and circus promoter Edgley International, Michael Edgley, known for bringing the Moscow State Circus to Australia during the 1980s. Her mother, Jeni Edgley, was formerly involved in managing a 250-acre (101 hectare) health retreat. As a child, Gigi Edgley performed both in and out of school. She also took several years of ballet, jazz, and character dance. She became mainly interested in acting and had her first professional theatrical engagement at the Twelfth Night Theatre. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Queensland University of Technology in 1998. As a believer in the school of method acting, Gigi has developed a broad set of skills a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Milosevic
Katrina Milosevic (born 25 April 1976) is an Australian actress who has appeared in many television programs and theatre productions, including a starring role in the prison drama series ''Wentworth''. Biography Katrina Milosevic was born in Mount Isa, Queensland Australia on 25 April 1976. She graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1997 with a degree in Performing Arts and went on to work on series '' The Games'' and ''Blue Heelers''. In 2003, she was cast in the regular role of Sophie Novak in '' Stingers'', which saw her nominated for the Most Popular New Talent Female at the 2004 Logie awards. She remained with the show for two seasons. Milosevic appeared in the 2005 Nine Network telemovie ''Little Oberon'' and in September 2006 she joined the Sydney Theatre Company's adaptation of the Neil LaBute play, ''Fat Pig''. Milosevic joined the cast of ''Neighbours'' as Kelly Katsis, a love interest for Toadfish Rebecchi (Ryan Moloney) in 2008. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Gibney
Rebecca Catherine Gibney (born 14 December 1964) is a New Zealand actress known for her roles on Australian television in ''The Flying Doctors'', ''Halifax f.p.'', ''Packed to the Rafters'', ''Winter (TV series), Winter'' and ''Wanted (2016 Australian TV series), Wanted''. She is a Gold Logie winner and has featured in a number of Australian films including ''Mental (2012 film), Mental'' and ''The Dressmaker (2015 film), The Dressmaker''. Biography Gibney is the youngest of six children; born in Levin, New Zealand and brought up in Wellington, where she attended Wellington Girls' College. She recounted that she was a "bit odd" as a child, stating "I was a bit like Wednesday Addams in ''The Addams Family''. "I walked around with this headless doll that I took everywhere." Gibney moved to Australia at the age of 19 after graduating from high school. Performance career Gibney worked as a model, then appeared on television in the New Zealand kidult series ''Sea Urchins'' from 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Kiefel
Russell John Kiefel (1951 – 20 November 2016) was an Australian stage, film and television actor. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Kiefel started his screen acting career with a role in the 1977 feature film ''The Singer and the Dancer''. He followed this with roles in '' Breaker Morant'' (1980), ''Twelfth Night'' (1986), ''Call Me Mr. Brown'' (1990) and television film ''The Leaving of Liverpool'' (1992). Kiefel appeared in several television dramas, including ''Home and Away'', ''Fireflies'' and '' Stingers''. He starred in an episode of ''Twisted Tales'' in 1998. Among his various guest appearances were episodes of '' Wildside'', ''Blue Heelers'' and ''Something in the Air''. In 2008, Kiefel played Lloyd Ross in '' Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley's Battle for Coal''. He joined the cast of ''Neighbours'' in the recurring role of Russell Brennan in 2015. Kiefel worked with various theatre companies throughout his stage career, appearing in numerous p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Russell (actor)
James Russell is an Australian comedian and actor, best known for appearing in the television series '' Comedy Inc.''. He has also featured in Australian films, sitcoms and dramas. Russell toured throughout Europe and North America during 2007 and 2008 with the production of 'Soft'. In 2009 he played the title role in the Malthouse Theatre production of ''Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd''. In 2013, he portrayed the recurring character of Roland in the teen drama television series ''Nowhere Boys ''Nowhere Boys'' is an Australian teen drama television series created by Tony Ayres. It was first broadcast on ABC3 (which is now officially named ABCME) on 7 November 2013. The first two series follow the adventures of four mismatched teenag ...''. References External links * Australian male television actors Australian male comedians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ridley
John Ridley IV (born 1965) is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist, and showrunner, known for '' 12 Years a Slave'', for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also the creator and showrunner of the anthology series '' American Crime''. In 2017 he directed the documentary film '' Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992''. Early life Ridley was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was raised from the age of seven in Mequon, Wisconsin, with an ophthalmologist father, John Ridley, III, and a mother, Terry Ridley, who was a special education teacher for Milwaukee Public Schools. Audiarchivedon January 28, 2015. He has two sisters and is the middle sibling. Ridley graduated from Homestead High School in Mequon, Wisconsin in 1982. He enrolled in Indiana University but transferred to New York University. There, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in East Asian languages. The subject wasn't applicable to his career, but it sparked his intellectu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Swann
David Richard Swann (born June 19, 1949) is a Canadian medical doctor and politician. He was the leader of the Alberta Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition in the Alberta Legislature from December 2008 until resigning as party leader in September 2011. He returned as interim leader of the Alberta Liberal Party on February 1, 2015, following the resignation of Raj Sherman and led the party through the 2015 provincial election. Swann is, to date, the last Liberal elected to the Alberta Legislature. Family and early life Swann was born in Taber, Alberta, and was raised in a middle-class family on the edge of downtown Calgary. His father, Richard Swann, was head of oil and gas exploration for Canadian Fina for many years, before that company was sold to Petro-Canada. His mother Margaret was an active volunteer while raising him and his four siblings. His summers as a child were spent in the countryside and mountains of Alberta. As he grew up, he worked on farms, at gas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
