Lynette Curran
Lynette Curran | |
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Born | 1945 (age 75–76) Australia |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1965-present |
Lynette Curran (born 1945[citation needed]), is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Australian television series and films. Between 1967 and 1974 she was a regular in soap opera Bellbird. She also acted in the film version of the serial, Country Town (1971) and co-starred with Barry Otto in the highly acclaimed 1985 film adaptation of Peter Carey's award-winning novel Bliss.
Theatre[]
She started acting in the theatre in 1964. Theatre work includes The Country Wife, Rookery Nook, Richard II, Just Between Ourselves, and Ashes for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She also played in Steaming for the Seymour Centre in Sydney.[1]
Film and television[]
Curran was a cast member of soap opera Bellbird when it started in 1967. She left the series permanently in 1974; at the time she left she was the program's last remaining original cast member.[2]
Curran made several film appearances in the 1970s, with roles in sex comedy Alvin Purple (1973), and in dramas I'm Here, Darlings! (1975), (1976). Late 1970s television appearances include soap opera Number 96 (in 1976), and police procedurals Bluey and Cop Shop. Curran was a recurring cast member of soap opera The Restless Years (1977–1981), playing the scheming Jean Stafford. She won a Sammy Award for her role in Australian Broadcasting Corporation series Spring and Fall.[1]
Later roles include feature films Heatwave 1982,The Delinquents (1989), The Boys (1998), Japanese Story (2003), Somersault (2004), These Final Hours (2013) , A Few Less Men (2017) and Brothers Nest (2018). For her appearance in Somersault she won the 2004 AACTA award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.[3]
On television she played Brenda Jackson in the Love My Way, and acted in Underbelly: The Golden Mile and Cleverman. She has recently been seen in Wentworth as Vera Bennett's elderly, terminally ill mother (2015).
Filmography[]
Production | Year | Role | |
The Sweet Sad Story of Elmo and Me (TV movie) | 1965 | Betty | |
Homicide (TV series) | 1965-1970 | 5 episodes -The Violators - Karen Latimer -For Pity's Sake - Anna -A Girl Who Liked Beads = Karen Barratt -No Other Girl - Joy Hamilton -The Solitary Duet - Wendy Hamilton | |
Country Town | 1971 | Rhoda Wilson | |
Matlock Police (TV series) | 1971-1972 | 2 roles -Give a Man a Gun - Vicky Thompson -Woman Wanted - Sandra Hughes | |
Division 4 (TV series) | 1970-1973 | 2 roles -The Emerging Man = Kerry Nolan -My Pretty Maid - Wendy Morris | |
Alvin Purple | 1973 | First Sugar Girl | |
Brumby Innes (TV movie) | 1973 | ? | |
Bellbird (TV series) | 1967-1974 (1,107 episodes) | Rhoda Lang Wilson Greene | |
The East Product (TV movie) | 1974 | Estelle Clay | |
Rush (TV series) | 1974 | Amy Draper (episode: They Faced All the Dangers, Those Bold Bushrangers) | |
Eye of the Spiral (TV series) | 1974 | ? | |
Behind the Legend (TV series) | 1975 | Belle (episode: Tom Roberts) | |
Cash and Company (TV series) | 1975 | Emma Riley (episode: Home Brewed) | |
I'm Here, Darlings! (TV movie) | 1975 | ? | |
Caddie (film) | 1976 | Maudie | |
King's Men (TV series) | 1976 | Episode: Pipeline | |
Alvin Purple (TV series) | 1 episode: London Derriere | ||
Number 96 (TV series) | 1976 | Samantha Minerver (2 episodes) | |
The Outsiders (TV series) | 1976 | Carol (episode: Change of Image) | |
A Journey to the Center of the Earth (TV movie) | 1977 | Voice | |
Bluey (TV series) | 1977 | Jenny (episode: Son of Bluey | |
The Geeks (TV movie) | 1978 | Tina | |
Chopper Squad (TV series) | 1978 | Cheryl Falconi (episode: Cliff Rescue) | |
Case for the Defence (TV series) | 1978 | Angela Craig (episode: The Family Way) | |
Spring and Fall (TV series) | 1980 | Carol (episode: Cold Comfort) | |
The Restless Years (TV series) | 1978-1980 | Jean Stafford | |
Buckleys Choice (short) | 1980 | Doctors wife | |
Cop Shop (TV series) | 1980-1981 | Trudy Lovell/Shirley Youngman/Marie Wood | |
Heatwave | 1982 | Evonne Houseman | |
Carson's Law (TV series) | 1984 | Episodes: A Tender Past, A Question of Circumstance as Vanessa Martin | |
Bliss | 1985 | Bettina Joy | |
The Flying Doctors (TV series) | 1986 | Episode: Million Acre Prison) Jean Irving | |
Comrades | 1986 | Prostitute | |
Lynette Curran | 1987 | Dora McKenzie | |
The Year My Voice Broke (film) | 1987 | Anne Olsen | |
The Shiralee (TV mini-series) | 1987 | Hareema | |
Rafferty's Rules (TV series) | 1988 | Dr. Curlewis (episode: Freedom) | |
Touch the Sun: Peter and Pompey (TV movie) | 1988 | Connie Driscoll | |
The Dirtwater Dynasty (TV mini-series) | 1988 | episode: Our Mum | |
Australians (TV series) | 1988 | episode Mrs. Cuthbert as Betty Cuthbert | |
Stringer (TV series) | 1988 | 8 episodes -Fastest Cab in the Southern Hemisphere -Moving In -Tit for Tat -Commercial Break -Our Man Frank Burying the Monkey -Torch Song -Fishy Chips | |
Becca (TV movie) | 1989 | Emma | |
The Delinquents | 1989 | Mrs. Henson | |
Police State (TV movie) | 1989 | Dawn Parker | |
Swimming (short) | 1991 | ? | |
Dead to the World | 1991 | Pearl Elkinton | |
A Country Practice (TV series) | 5 episodes: -Misconceptions Part 1 and Part 2- Connie Barker -Aftermath Part 2 - Karen Stone -Survivors Part 1 and Part 2 as Karen West | ||
Just Desserts (short film) | 1993 | Mrs. Fullilove | |
Mushrooms | 1995 | Minnie | |
Big Sky (TV series) | 1997 | Meg Bateman(episode:Lost and Found | |
Road to Nhill (film) | 1997 | Margot | |
Oscar and mLucinda (film) | 1997 | Mrs. Ahearn | |
The Boys (film) | 1998 | Sandra Sprague | |
Praise | 1998 | Sexual Health Worker | |
Aftershocks (TV movie) | 1998 | Fay Asquith | |
Bangers (short) | 1998 | Mother | |
Water Rats (TV series) | 1998-2000 | 2 episodes -Sympathy for the Devil as Glenda Lord -Two of a Kind as Geraldine Sawyer | |
My Mother Frank | 2000 | Jean | |
Murder Call (TV series) | 2000 | Janet Simms (episode: Paid in Full) | |
Backberner (TV series) | 2001 | Miriam Stardwick | |
White Collar Blue (TV series) | 2003 | Sandra Benson | |
Japanese Story (film) | 2003 | Mum | |
Always Greener | 2001-2003 | Connie Linguini in 9 episodes -Dog Days -Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves -History Repeating -A Man Walks Into a Bar -Cliffhanger -Here We Go Again -It Takes Balls -Cause and Effect -True Romance | |
Somersault | 2004 | Irene | |
Blue Heelers (TV series) | 1999-2005 | Evie Osborn (episode: Without Judgement) -Marie Biden (episode: Another Day at the Office Part 1 and Part 2) | |
Call Me Mum (TV movie) | 2006 | Dellmay | |
All Saints (TV series) | 1998-2006) | Anita Petrakis (episode: Family Feud) -Hilary Doyle (episodes: In with the New, A Fine Balance, Duty of Care) -Harriet Bell (episode:The Other Mans Shoes | |
Prada Handbag (short) | 2007 | Meryl | |
Love My Way (TV series) | 2004-2007 | 28 Episodes as BrendaJackson | |
Chandon Pictures (TV series) | 2009 | Lorelei (episode: The Man with the Dancing Fingers) | |
Roundless (short) | Mum | ||
Prime Mover | 2009 | Mrs. Boyd | |
Wicked Love: the Maria Korp Story (TV movie) | 2010 | Daphne | |
Underbelly: The Golden Mile (TV series) | 2010 | Irene Webb | |
City Homicide (TV series) | 2010 | Posy Pollard | |
Rake (TV series) | 2010 | Colleen | |
Bed of Roses (TV series) | 2011 | Frida Fryberg 3 episodes -Frida Fryberg -Insurgent Activity -Every time We Say Goodbye | |
Slide (TV series) | 2011 | Connie | |
These Final Hours | 2013 | Jame's Mum | |
Wentworth (TV series) | 2013-2014 | Rita Bennett 3 episodes -Captive -The Pink Dragon -Metamorphosis | |
Love Is Now | 2014 | Nurse | |
A Priest in the Family (short) | 2014 | Molly | |
Bluey (short) | 2015 | Old Woman | |
Glitch (TV series) | 2015 | Jo Willis | |
Black Chook | 2015 | Mrs. Anderson | |
Cleverman (TV series) | 2016 | Virgil | |
Deepwater | (4 part-TV miniseries) | 2016 | Rhys Mother |
A Few Less Man | 2017 | Maureen | |
Newton's Law (TV series) | 2017 | Martha Payne | |
Brothers' Nest | 2018 | Mum | |
Harrow(TV series) | 2018 | Millicent Bruce | |
Birdie (short) | 2018/II | ||
Mollie and Cara (TV series) | 2019 | Mollie | |
Reckoning (TV miniseries) | 2020 | Kitty (episode: You Should Be Dancing) |
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Atterton, Margot. (Ed.) The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz, Sunshine Books, 1984. ISBN 0-86777-057-0 p 54
- ^ "1974 Cast Exodus". Bellbird. Aussie Soap Archive. May 2000. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
- ^ "AACTA Awards 2004 Winners and Nominees". Australian Film Institute. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
External links[]
- Australian film actresses
- Australian television actresses
- Living people
- 1945 births
- Australian stage actresses
- Best Supporting Actress AACTA Award winners
- 20th-century Australian actresses
- 21st-century Australian actresses