Penne Hackforth-Jones (born 1949) is an American-born Australian actress and writer.

She has a number of television credits such as Bellbird

Bellbird (TV series)

Bellbird was an Australian soap opera set in a small Victorian rural township. The series was produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation at its Ripponlea TV studios in Elsternwick, Melbourne, Victoria. The series was produced between 28 August 1967 and December 1977...

, Homicide, Matlock Police

Matlock Police

Matlock Police was an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the 0-10 Network between 1971 and 1975....

, Division 4

Division 4

Division 4 was an Australian television police drama series made by Crawford Productions for the Nine Network between 1969 and 1975 for 300 episodes....

, Tandarra

Tandarra

Tandarra was the follow-up Australian television series to Cash and Company , set during the Victorian gold rush period of the 1850s...

, Cash and Company

Cash and Company

Cash and Company was an Australian television period adventure series, set during the Victorian gold rush of the 1850s. The original series consisted of 13 one hour episodes, filmed in colour and on location in rural Victoria....

, Young Ramsay

Young Ramsay

Young Ramsay was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1977 to 1980 on the Seven Network. It was produced by Crawford Productions as two series of 13 episodes each.-Plot:...

, Punishment

Punishment (TV series)

Punishment is an Australian television soap opera made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981.Set in a fictional men's prison, the series attempted to present a male version of the successful soap Prisoner...

, Bellamy

Bellamy (TV series)

Bellamy is an Australian television series made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981.The series focused on a maverick cop named Steve Bellamy . His partner was Detective Mitchell...

, A Country Practice

A Country Practice

A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...

, Mother and Son

Mother and Son

Mother and Son is a Logie Award-winning Australian television sitcom produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 16 January 1984 until 21 March 1994. The show stars Ruth Cracknell, Garry McDonald, Henri Szeps and Judy Morris...

, Tanamera - Lion of Singapore

Tanamera - Lion of Singapore

Tanamera - Lion of Singapore is an 1989 Australian drama serial, also shown in the United Kingdom, concerning the intertwined lives of two leading families of Singapore, the Dexters and the Soongs, from 1935 to 1948...

, Murder Call

Murder Call

Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked...

and All Saints

All Saints (TV series)

All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...

and, more recently, Chandon Pictures

Chandon Pictures

Chandon Pictures was an Australian comedy television series that premiered on Movie Extra on 10 November 2007 and ended on 7 May 2009.The series featured sixteen episodes and was a spin-off from a Tropfest short film produced by Rob Carlton and Alex Weinress...

and :30 Seconds

30 Seconds (TV series)

:30 Seconds is an Australian comedy series produced for The Comedy Channel which satirises Australian advertising companies and advertising industry. The name of the show comes from the advertising slots on television that are normally 30 seconds long...

. She played Cynthia Dodds in the 2009 film Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer (film)

Mao's Last Dancer is a 2009 Australian biographical film, directed by Bruce Beresford, based on ballet dancer Li Cunxin's autobiography Mao's Last Dancer. Li Cunxin is portrayed by Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Chi Cao , Australian Ballet dancer Chengwu Guo and Huang Wen Bin...

and Mrs Johnson in The Tree.

She also featured in a long running television advertisement series for Kellogg's Sultana Bran in the 1980s.

She is the author of a biography of her great-grandmother, writer Barbara Baynton

Barbara Baynton

Barbara Janet Ainsleigh Baynton, Lady Headley was an Australian writer, made famous for Bush Studies which was written in retaliation to Henry Lawson's works.- Life :...

, titled Barbara Baynton – between two worlds.

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