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]   |
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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]   |
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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]   |
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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]   |
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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]   |
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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]   |
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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 ... |