Margot Knight is an Australian actress of television and stage, voice artist and a screenwriter. She had numerous guest roles in TV series and telemovies, but is best known for her stints playing two roles in the highly popular

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'' (known internationally as ''Prisoner: Cell Block H''); she played inmate

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in 1980 and junior prison officer Terri Malone in 1985.

TV roles: ''Neighbours'' and ''Prisoner''

Knight appeared in '' Neighbours'', playing two different roles Jean Richards in 1986 and

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in 1997. Her ''Prisoner'' appearances are notable because in addition to being one of the few cast members to play both a prisoner and a prison warder in the series, both of her roles were as the lesbian love interest to the show's main lesbian character at the time. Sharon Gilmour was the scheming drug pushing girlfriend of long-term inmate Judy Bryant (

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) (Judy's long stay in prison actually began because she deliberately had herself imprisoned to be with Sharon), and Terri Malone was a young prison officer who moved in with warder Joan Ferguson (

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Screenwriting

Knight is also a writer, and between 1990 and 1993, wrote several episodes of '' Neighbours'', including episode 1721 which saw the death of the popular character

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played by

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. This episode is included on the DVD, ''Neighbours: Defining Moments''.

Stage roles

Knight has also worked on stage plays since 1976. Her live work includes “Underground”, “The World Without Birds”, “Controlled Crying”, and “Richard II”. In November 2011, Knight reunited with other ''Prisoner'' cast members for a fundraiser for Audacious Dreaming, to support

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awareness.

Filmography

Screenwriter

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Knight, Margot Australian film actresses Australian soap opera actresses Australian stage actresses Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian actresses 21st-century Australian actresses