Catherine Wilkin
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Catherine Wilkin is an actor who has worked in New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 and Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

.

Wilkin has acted in many Australian television shows, with a mix of guest and multi-episode recurring roles.

She played the recurring role lawyer Kate McGrath in Cop Shop
Cop Shop
Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station....

in 1981. Her then partner, Bill Stalker
Bill Stalker
William Robert "Bill" Stalker was a New Zealand actor, most famous for his roles in television.-Early life:Stalker was born and grew up in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, the second of seven children to Robert and ZenaStalker...

, was at that time a regular in the series. In 1983 she played Janice Young in Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...

. Other roles include Pauline Grey in Rafferty's Rules
Rafferty's Rules
Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network.The producers of the series were Posie Graeme-Evans , and Denis Phelen. The directors were Graham Thorburn, Mike Smith and Russell Webb...

, Katherine Jensen in Embassy
Embassy (TV series)
Embassy was an Australian television series originally broadcast by the ABC from 1990 to 1992. There were three series produced with a total of 39 episodes. The series was set in the Australian embassy of a fictional south-east Asian country called Ragaan, located somewhere between Thailand and...

, Sally Downie in Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...

and Liz Ryan in McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...

.

Theatre performances include Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...

by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

in 2010 for Auckland Theatre Company.

She was injured in the November 1981 motorcycle accident that killed her then-partner, actor Bill Stalker
Bill Stalker
William Robert "Bill" Stalker was a New Zealand actor, most famous for his roles in television.-Early life:Stalker was born and grew up in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, the second of seven children to Robert and ZenaStalker...

.

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Brilliant Lies
Brilliant Lies
Brilliant Lies is an Australian film released in 1996, produced by Bayside Pictures and Beyond Films.Directed by Richard Franklin.Produced by Sue Farrelly, Kim McKillop and Richard Franklin....

Marion Lee

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1977 Cop Shop
Cop Shop
Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station....

Kate McGrath TV series
1979 Close to Home Anne 1 episode
1979 Skyways
Skyways (TV series)
Skyways is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network.The series, which aired from 1979 to 1981, was set at the fictional Pacific International Airport and dealt with the lives of the pilots, airline staff and management team who worked there.Skyways was...

Hanna Clayton Episode: "Hard Case Hanna"
1983 Prisoner
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...

Janice Young 9 episodes
1984 Children of the Dog Star
Children of the Dog Star
Children of the Dog Star is a science fiction television program for children produced in New Zealand in 1984. It consists of six episodes of thirty minutes each...

Helen Elliott TV miniseries
1984 Aggie French TV series
1985 Pamela Stoneham TV miniseries
1985 May Prang Episode: "Journey"
1986 Carol Power TV miniseries
1987 Rafferty's Rules
Rafferty's Rules
Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network.The producers of the series were Posie Graeme-Evans , and Denis Phelen. The directors were Graham Thorburn, Mike Smith and Russell Webb...

Pauline Grey Episode: "Quantity of Mercy"
1987 Jessie Logan Episode: "No Quarter Asked"
1989 This Man... This Woman Marion Clarke TV miniseries
1989 Il magistrato Claire Boyd TV movie
1989 Grim Pickings Kate TV miniseries
1991 Shark in the Park
Shark in the Park
Shark in the Park wasa New Zealand television drama series. A police procedural, it revolved around the professional and private lives of a group of officers at a Wellington police station under the command of Inspector Brian "Sharky" Finn...

Catherine Pierce 5 episodes
1992 Embassy
Embassy (TV series)
Embassy was an Australian television series originally broadcast by the ABC from 1990 to 1992. There were three series produced with a total of 39 episodes. The series was set in the Australian embassy of a fictional south-east Asian country called Ragaan, located somewhere between Thailand and...

Ambassador Katherine Jenson TV series
1993 Snowy Molly Logan 13 episodes
1995 Swimming Lessons Margaret Sadler TV movie
1997 Ocean Girl
Ocean Girl
Ocean Girl is an Australian science fiction TV series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character...

Madame President 3 episodes
1997 Duggan
Duggan (TV series)
Duggan was a TVNZ police drama from 1997, featuring New Zealand actor John Bach as Detective Inspector John Duggan and Fiona Mogridge as Ruth Duggan. Unlike other New Zealand police drama series, Duggan was produced as a series of one-off programmes, akin to British crime series of the time such as...

Lynette Bridges Episode: "Death in Paradise"
1997-1999 Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...

Sally Downie 5 episodes
1998 Duggan
Duggan (TV series)
Duggan was a TVNZ police drama from 1997, featuring New Zealand actor John Bach as Detective Inspector John Duggan and Fiona Mogridge as Ruth Duggan. Unlike other New Zealand police drama series, Duggan was produced as a series of one-off programmes, akin to British crime series of the time such as...

Lynette Bridges Episode: "Sins of the Fathers"
1998 Halifax f.p: Afraid of the Dark Marion Walters TV movie
1998 Andrea Gordon TV movie
1998 State Coroner
State Coroner (TV series)
State Coroner was an Australian television series screened on Network Ten in 1997 and 1998. There were two series produced with a total of 29 episodes. The series was set in the State Coroner's office complex and featured investigations into deaths, murders, suicides, accidents and natural causes...

Olwen Parsons Episode: "Sunday in the Country"
1999 Adama Episode: "Nectar"
2001-2003 Elizabeth Regnery 49 episodes
2001-2003 McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...

Liz Ryan 25 episodes
2002 Jessie Challenger Episode: "The Elixir"
2006 McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters
McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...

Liz Ryan Episode: "The Legend of Harry Ryan"
2007 Outrageous Fortune
Outrageous Fortune (TV series)
Outrageous Fortune was a New Zealand comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and was produced by South Pacific Pictures...

Sonya Episode: "The Secret Parts of Fortune"
2011 Tangiwai Emma Blair TV movie

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