Film

She is best known for her role as Laura Tweedle Rambotham in the film The Getting of Wisdom

The Getting of Wisdom (film)

The Getting of Wisdom is a 1977 Australian film based on a novel by the same name by Henry Handel Richardson and directed by Bruce Beresford. Set in 1890s Victoria, Laura enters an exclusive Melbourne ladies' college...

 (after the novel The Getting of Wisdom

The Getting of Wisdom

The Getting of Wisdom is a novel by Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. It was first published in 1910, and has almost always been in print ever since.-Plot introduction:...

 by Henry Handel Richardson

Henry Handel Richardson

Henry Handel Richardson, the pseudonym used by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, was an Australian author. She took the name "Henry Handel" because at that time, many people did not take women's writing seriously, so she used a male name...

), about which the 2006 documentary Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom was created, and her role in the television series 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...

 as Lori Young.

Theatre

She performed on stage in The Boiling Frog at the Nimrod Theatre in 1984. She also worked for the State Theatre Company of Northern Territory in 1987 and performed in The Sentimental Bloke and Trumpets and Raspberries.

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