Wendy Strehlow

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Wendy Strehlow
Born1958 (age 63–64)
Australia
OccupationActress (theatre and television)
Years active1981-present
FamilySophie Hensser (daughter)

Wendy Strehlow (c. 1958) is an Australian actress, particularly in soap opera and theatre, she has appeared in numerous TV series and tele-dramas but is probably best known for her role as the much loved nurse sister Judy Loveday in the television soap opera A Country Practice, from 1981 to 1986 (217 episodes), for which she won a Logie Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1985. From mid-2005 to 2008, she played the role of Paramedic Lorraine Tanner in the Seven Network medical drama All Saints. [1]

Television and theatre roles[]

Other TV credits include: E Street, Blue Heelers, McLeod's Daughters, Home and Away, A Step in the Right Direction and The Saddle Club.

She has appeared in numerous stage productions including, The Greening of Grace, Henry IV, The Memory of Water, Travesties and the pulitzer prize winning production, Clybourne Park.

Personal life[]

Strehlow is originally from the city of Rockhampton, Queensland. She took ballet lessons and joined Rockhampton Little Theatre at age 11, before studying drama at Flinders University in South Australia. She is married to a television sound technician. Her parents were both farmers who ran a bakery, and she is the mother of soap actress Sophie Hensser.[2]

Filmography[]

Title Year Role
A Step in the Right Direction (TV movie) 1981 Robyn
Hoodwink 1981 Martin's Sister
For the Term of His Natural Life (TV miniseries) 1983 Jenny
A Country Practice (TV series) Judy Loveday 1981-1986 217 episodes
The Dirtwater Dynasty (TV miniseries) 1988 St. Lukes Sister
How Wonderful (TV movie) 1989 ?
Family and Friends (TV series) 1990 Janet Simmonds
Act of Necessity (TV movie) 1991 Cressa Buchanan
E Street 1991 Ruth Sloman
G.P. (TV series) 1992 Alice Meyer
Bay City (TV series) 1993 Sue Walker
Ship to Shore (TV series) 1993-1994 Denise
Bush Patrol (TV series) 1996 Maggie Dean
National Justice: Heat 1996 Council Clerk
Dead End 1999 Det. Maggie Layton
Halifax f.p. (TV series) 1999 Carol Witherspoon
Blue Heelers (TV series) 1997-2000 Maxine Ambrose/Anita Harvey
The Saddle Club (TV series) 2001 Chelsea Owens
Crash Zone (TV series) 2001 Mrs. Sparks
Dalkeith 2002 Miss. Denham
McLeod's Daughters (TV series) 2002 Helen
Don't Blame the Koalas (TV series) 2002 Mrs. Krantz
The Libertine (short) 2005 Woman
Home and Away 2002-2007 Coroner/Jane Willis
All Saints (TV series) 2002-2008 Lorraine Tanner
Dear Diary (short) 2009 Rhonda
The Storymaker (short) 2009 Grinning Goalkeeper
Skit Box (TV series) 2013 ?
Soul Mates (TV series) 2014 Cersei
Here Come the Habibs! (TV series) 2015 Border Security
Hyde and Seek' (TV miniseries) 2016 Elaine
Drop Dead Weird (TV series) 2017 Aubrey
On the Ropes (TV miniseries) 2018 Gloria
Hardball' (TV series) 2019 Wanda
Tales for Uncertain Times (TV series) 2020 Stepmother
Remember my Name (TV series) post production Doctor Keats

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.suebarnett.net/voices/women/wendy-strehlow/
  2. ^ Schipp, Debbie (6 May 2012). "Sophie Hensser finds acting is real family affair". DailyTelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 7 July 2014.

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