Tessa Humphries

	Tessa Humphries Tessa Humphries is an Australian actress, best known for her appearances in television soap opera. Humphries made her acting debut in '' Cassandra'' as the title character, and had also played Mary Reynolds in '' Sons and Daughters'' and Corinne Todd in '' Families''. In 1995 she played Tracy in '' Sex Is a Four Letter Word''. She also starred in '' Out of the Body'' as Neva St. Clair. She is the daughter of comedian Barry Humphries and his second wife, Rosalind Tong and was married to producer Jason Buesst to whom she has two sons. Filmography References External links * Living people Australian television actresses Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cassandra (film) ''Cassandra'' is a 1987 Australian horror filmDavid Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p290 directed by Colin Eggleston. Plot A young girl is haunted by nightmares of suicide and murder. Cast * Tessa Humphries as Jill / Cassandra * Tegan Charles as young Cassandra * Lee James as Warren / Robert * Dylan O'Neill as young Warren * Shane Briant as Stephen * Briony Behets as Helen * Kit Taylor as Harrison References External links * ''Cassandra''at Oz Movies ''Cassandra''at AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration betwee ... Australian horror films 1987 horror films Films directed by Colin Eggleston 1987 films 1980s slasher films Australian slasher films 1980s English-language films 1980s Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sons And Daughters (Australian TV Series) ''Sons and Daughters'' is an Australian Logie Award-winning soap opera/drama serial, broadcast by the Seven Network between January 1982 and December 1987 and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. It was created by executive Reg Watson, and is distributed by Fremantle. ''Sons and Daughters'' is remembered for its regular use of dramatic cliffhangers and its most famous character; Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton, initially played by Rowena Wallace, who became the first soap star, non-personality to win the Gold Logie award for her spirited performance in the role - when she left the series in 1985, the part was recast, with Belinda Giblin taking over the role, following the character receiving extensive plastic surgery in the storyline, and returning as Alison Carr. The extended pilot episode premiered on Monday, 18 January 1982, during the Christmas/New Year non-ratings period in Sydney and Melbourne, and the following week in Brisbane and Adelaide. For the first two y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Families (TV Series) ''Families'' was a daytime soap opera, which was on ITV from 1990 to 1993 and created by Kay Mellor. It followed two families; the Thompsons, based in Cheshire, England (in the fictional market town of Westbury), and the Stevens, living in Sydney. It was produced and recorded at Studio 6 at Granada Studios in Manchester. History It was broadcast twice a week (Monday and Tuesday) at 3.20 pm with the first episode broadcast on 23 April 1990. Both episodes were also repeated on Thursday 10.40 pm in the Granada TV region as part of Granada's "10.40-extra" strand. The show was unusual for a daytime soap, regularly tackling subjects that at the time would have been deemed controversial for a prime time soap. These included murder, suicide, incest, drugs, adultery, prostitution, mental health problems and homosexuality. It also contained some strong language and scenes of a sexual nature, all of which were screened, in most ITV regions, just before children's TV started at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sex Is A Four Letter Word ''Sex is a Four Letter Word'' is a 1995 Australian film directed by Murray Fahey and starring Joy Smithers, Miranda Otto, Mark Lee, Tessa Humphries and Rhett Walton. It has been described as an Australian version of ''The Big Chill Big Chill can refer to: The Big Chill (music festival), an annual music and comedy festival held in England ''The Big Chill'' (film), a 1983 American film directed by Lawrence Kasdan The Big Chill at the Big House, a 2010 U.S. college ice hock ...'' (1983).Anne Marie Lopez, "Everyone Together Now: Low Budget Filmmaking in Australia", ''Cinema Papers'' July 1997 pp. 18–21 Premise A love columnist (Joy Smithers) invites six friends over to talk about love and sex. References External links ''Sex is a Four Letter Word''at Screen Australia Australian comedy-drama films 1995 films Films directed by Murray Fahey 1990s English-language films 1995 comedy-drama films 1990s Australian films {{1990s-Australia-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Out Of The Body ''Out of the Body'' is a 1988 Australian supernatural thriller film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p295 Plot summary In Sydney, Australia, there's a killer on the loose, removing the eyes of his female victims. The only hope of catching him lies in an astral traveller named David Gaze, who is the prime suspect. Cast Mark Hembrow as David Gaze Tessa Humphries as Neva St. Clair Margaret Trenchard-Smith (as Margi Gerard) as Maggi Jarrott Tim Campbell as Security Guard Linda Newton as Carla Duprey John Clayton as Sergeant Whittaker Helen O'Connor as Barbara Sloan John Ley as Senior Detective Delgarno Production The film was one of four pictures made around the same time by executive Tom Broadbridge. The others were ''Kadaicha'', ''The 13th Floor'' and ''Vicious''. References External links''Out of the Body''at IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Barry Humphries John Barry Humphries (born 17 February 1934) is an Australian comedian, actor, author and satirist. He is best known for writing and playing his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. He is also a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, a writer, and a landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time … utthe most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin". Humphries' characters have brought him international renown, and he also appeared in numerous stage productions, films, and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Dame Edna Everage has evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom – a gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Law Of The Land (TV Series) ''Law of the Land'' is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network from 1993–1999. The series was set in the fictional country town of Merringanee and centered on the unique way that locals dealt with and enforced the law. The series was created by Ro Hume and Sue Masters and produced by Bruce Best, Matt Carroll, Richard Clendinnen and Terrie Vincent. Cast * Lisa Hensley – Kate Chalmers * David Roberts – Peter Lawrence * Wyn Roberts – Hamilton Chalmers * Richard Moir – Sergeant Clive O'Connor * David Walters – Sean O'Connor * Angelo D'Angelo – Sergeant Marc Rosetti * Debbie Byrne – Jean Jardine * Tamblyn Lord – David Jardine * Lindy Wallis – Trish Miles * Shane Connor – Harry Miles * Radha Mitchell – Alicia Miles * Abbie Holmes – Audrey O'Connor * Peter O'Brien – Andy Cochrane * Frances O'Connor – Marissa Green * Alexandra Fowler – Jacqui Rushcutter * Fiona Spence – Magistrate Maggie Mulcahy * Rebec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Paradise Road (1997 Film) ''Paradise Road'' is a 1997 Australian war film that tells the story of a group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women who are imprisoned by the Japanese in Sumatra during World War II. It was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Glenn Close as Adrienne Pargiter, (based on Norah Chambers), Frances McDormand as the brash Dr. Verstak, Pauline Collins as missionary Margaret Drummond (based on missionary Margaret Dryburgh), Julianna Margulies as U.S. socialite Topsy Merritt, Jennifer Ehle as British doyenne and model Rosemary Leighton Jones, Cate Blanchett as Australian nurse Susan McCarthy and Elizabeth Spriggs as dowager Imogene Roberts. Plot Basing his film on real events, Bruce Beresford tells the story of a vocal orchestra created by the women in a Japanese Internment camp, a classic survivors' tale about women's ability to survive hardship and atrocity through perseverance, solidarity and creativity. The film opens with a dance at Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Wives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Secret Life Of Us ''The Secret Life of Us'' is an Australian television drama series set in the beachside neighbourhood of St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is primarily a drama with some comedic moments. The series was produced by Southern Star Group and screened in Australia from 2001 to 2005 on Network Ten and on Channel 4 in the UK. Initially co-funded by the two networks, Channel 4 pulled out after the third series and the fourth series was not aired in the UK. The series won three silver Logie Awards. It has been shown in other countries such as New Zealand (TV3) where it is rated R16 in New Zealand for offensive language and sex scenes; Ireland (RTÉ Two), Canada (SuperChannel3), the Netherlands ( Yorin), France ( Canal Plus, France 4), Estonia ( ETV, Kanal 11), Norway ( NRK), Serbia ( B92, TV Avala), Russia ( TNT, Muz TV), Israel ( Channel 2), South Africa ( M-Net), and the United States (Hulu). Plot The show revolves around a group of friends in their mid 20s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Human Touch (film) ''Human Touch'' is a 2004 film directed by Paul Cox and starring Jacqueline McKenzie, Chris Haywood and Aaron Blabey. The plot follows the story of Anna who is a singer trying to raise money for her choir's trip to China. She does this by posing nude for an ageing artist and upon seeing the finished results goes on a journey of self-discovery. See also * Cinema of Australia The cinema of Australia had its beginnings with the 1906 production of '' The Story of the Kelly Gang'', arguably the world's first feature film. Since then, Australian crews have produced many films, a number of which have received internat ... References External links * 2004 films 2004 drama films Australian drama films Films directed by Paul Cox 2000s English-language films 2000s Australian films {{2000s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	Australian Television Actresses Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia European Australians Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia Australian is an historic unincorporated community on the Fraser River in the Cariboo Country of the Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name is derived from that of the Australian Ranch, one of British Columbia's first ranching oper ..., an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]