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Lynette Curran is an Australian actress known for many roles in Australian television series and films, including the soap opera Bellbird, and the films Country Town (1971) and Bliss (1985).
Lynette Curran | |
|---|---|
| Born | Australia |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1965-present |
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 acted in the film version of the serial Country Town (1971). She made several other film appearances in the 1970s, with roles in sex comedy Alvin Purple (1973), and in dramas I'm Here, Darlings! (1975), Caddie (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]
She co-starred with Barry Otto in the acclaimed 1985 film adaptation of Peter Carey's award-winning novel Bliss.[citation needed]
Other 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).[citation needed]
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 was in Wentworth as Vera Bennett's elderly, terminally-ill mother (2015).[citation needed]
Curran appears in Season 2 of Aftertaste (2022).[4]
Filmography
FILM
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Country Town | Rhoda Wilson | Feature film |
| 1973 | Alvin Purple | First Sugar Girl | Feature film |
| 1976 | Drift Away | unknown role | Film short |
| 1976 | Caddie | Maudie | Feature film |
| 1980 | Buckley's Chance | Doctor's wife | Film short |
| 1982 | Heatwave | Evonne Houseman | Feature film |
| 1985 | Bliss | Bettina Joy | Feature film |
| 1986 | Bullseye | Dora McKenzie | Feature film |
| 1987 | Comrades | Prostitute | Feature film, UK |
| 1987 | The Year My Voice Broke | Anne Olson | Feature film |
| 1989 | The Delinquents | Mrs. Hansen | Feature film |
| 1990 | Dead To The World | Pearl Elkington | Feature film |
| 1990 | Swimming | unknown role | Film short |
| 1991 | Every Little Breeze | unknown role | Film short |
| 1993 | Just Desserts | Mrs. Fullilove | Film short |
| 1995 | Mushrooms | Minnie | Feature film |
| 1997 | Road To Nhill | Margot | Feature film |
| 1997 | Oscar And Lucinda | Mrs. Ahearn | Feature film |
| 1998 | The Boys | Sandra Sprague | Feature film |
| 1998 | Praise | Sexual Health Worker | Feature film |
| 1999 | Bangers | Mother | Film short |
| 2000 | My Mother Frank | Jean | Feature film |
| 2003 | Japanese Story | Mum | Feature film |
| 2004 | Somersault | Irene | Feature film |
| 2007 | Prada Handbag | Meryl | Film short |
| 2009 | Boundless | Mother | Film short |
| 2009 | Prime Mover | Mrs Boyd | Feature film |
| 2013 | These Final Hours | James' Mum | Feature film |
| 2014 | Love Is Now | Nurse | Feature film |
| 2014 | A Priest In The Family | Molly | Film short |
| 2015 | Bluey | Old Woman | Film short |
| 2015 | Black Clock | Mrs. Anderson | Film short |
| 2017 | A Few Less Men | Maureen | Feature film |
| 2018 | Brothers' Nest | Mum | Feature film |
| 2018 | Birdie | unknown role | Film short |
| 2019 | Aldi Australia: The Miracle Ham | Beryl | Film short |
| 2021 | Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings | Old Lady on Bus | Feature film, US |
TELEVISION
| Title | Year | Role | Type |
| The Sweet Sad Story of Elmo and Me | 1965 | Betty | TV movie |
| Homicide | 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 | TV series, 5 episodes |
| Bellbird | 1967-1974 | Rhoda Lang Wilson Greene / Rhoda Wilson / Rhoda Lang Wilson Greene | ABC TV series, 1107 episodes |
| Matlock Police | 1971-1972 | 2 roles -Give a Man a Gun - Vicky Thompson -Woman Wanted - Sandra Hughes | TV series, 2 episodes |
| Division 4 | 1970-1973 | 2 roles -The Emerging Man = Kerry Nolan -My Pretty Maid - Wendy Morris | TV series, 2 episodes |
| Brumby Innes | 1973 | May | TV movie |
| The End Product | 1974 | Estelle Clay | TV movie |
| Rush | 1974 | Amy Draper (episode: They Faced All the Dangers, Those Bold Bushrangers) | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
| Eye of the Spiral aka 'The Spiral Bureau' | 1974 | unknown role | TV movie |
| Behind the Legend | 1975 | Belle (episode: Tom Roberts) | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
| Cash and Company | 1975 | Emma Riley (episode: Home Brewed) | TV series, 1 episode |
| I'm Here, Darlings! | 1975 | unknown role | TV movie |
| King's Men | 1976 | unknoen role | TV series, 1 Episode: Pipeline |
| Alvin Purple | 1976 | Fan | 1 episode: London Derriere ABC TV series, 1 episode 12: London Derriere |
| Fair Game | 1976 | unknown role | TV pilot |
| Number 96 | 1976 | Samantha Minerver | TV series, 2 episodes |
| The Outsiders | 1976 | Carol | ABC TV series, 1 episode: Change of Image |
| A Journey to the Center of the Earth | 1977 | Voice | Animated TV movie |
| Bluey | 1977 | Jenny | TV series, 1 episode 39: Son of Bluey |
| The Geeks | 1978 | Tina | TV movie |
| Chopper Squad | 1978 | Cheryl Falconi | TV series episode 2: Cliff Rescue |
| Case for the Defence | 1978 | Angela Craig | TV series, 1 episode 3: The Family Way |
| The Restless Years | 1978-1980 | Jean Stafford | TV series |
| Spring and Fall | 1980 | Carol | ABC TV series, Series 1, episode 1: Cold Comfort |
| Cop Shop | 1980-1981 | Trudy Lovell / Shirley Youngman / Marie Wood | TV series, 6 episodes |
| Carson's Law | 1984 | Vanessa Martin | TV series, 2 episodes, Episodes: A Tender Past, A Question of Circumstance |
| A Country Practice | 1984-1992 | Connie Barker - -Misconceptions Part 1 and Part 2, Karen Stone -Aftermath Part 2, Karen West -Survivors Part 1 and Part 2 | TV series, 5 episodes |
| The Flying Doctors | 1986 | Jean Irving | TV series, 1 episode Episode 19: Million Acre Prison |
| The Shiralee | 1987 | Hareema | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| Rafferty's Rules | 1988 | Dr. Curlewis | TV series, 1 episode: Freedom |
| Touch the Sun: Peter and Pompey | 1988 | Connie Driscoll | ABC TV movie |
| The Dirtwater Dynasty | 1988 | Our Mum | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| Australians | 1988 | Mrs. Cuthbert | TV series, 1 episode 19: Betty Cuthbert |
| Stringer | 1988 | unknown role | -Fastest Cab in the Southern Hemisphere -Moving In -Tit for Tat -Commercial Break -Our Man Frank Burying the Monkey -Torch Song -Fishy Chips, ABC TV series, 8 episodes |
| Becca | 1989 | Emma | ABC TV movie |
| Police State | 1989 | Dawn Parker | ABC TV movie |
| Death In the Family | 1993 | unknown role | TV movie |
| Echo Point | 1995 | Angela Tilbury | TV series, 1 episode |
| Big Sky | 1997 | Meg Bateman | TV series, 1 episode episode:Lost and Found |
| FCTV | 1998 | Herself - Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
| Aftershocks | 1998 | Fay Asquith | SBS TV movie |
| All Saints | 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 | TV series, 5 episodes |
| Water Rats | 1998;2000 | 2 episodes -Sympathy for the Devil as Glenda Lord -Two of a Kind as Geraldine Sawyer | TV series, 2 episodes |
| Blue Heelers | 1999-2005 | Evie Osborn (episode: Without Judgement) -Marie Biden (episode: Another Day at the Office Part 1 and Part 2) | TV series, 3 episodes |
| Murder Call | 2000 | Janet Simms | TV series, 1 episode episode: Paid in Full) |
| Backberner | 2001;2002 | Miriam Stardwick | ABC TV series, 2 episodes |
| 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 | TV series, 9 episodes |
| White Collar Blue | 2003 | Sandra Benson | TV series, 1 episode |
| Love My Way | 2004-2007 | Brenda Jackson | TV series, 28 episodes |
| Call Me Mum | 2006 | Dellmay | TV movie |
| Chandon Pictures | 2009 | Lorelei | ABC TV series, 1 episode: The Man with the Dancing Fingers |
| Wicked Love: the Maria Korp Story | 2010 | Daphne | TV movie |
| Underbelly: The Golden Mile | 2010 | Irene Webb | TV series, 2 episodes |
| City Homicide | 2010 | Posy Pollard | TV series, 1 episode |
| Rake | 2010 | Colleen | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
| Bed of Roses | 2011 | Frida Fryberg 3 episodes -Frida Fryberg -Insurgent Activity -Every time We Say Goodbye | ABC TV series, 3 episodes |
| Slide | 2011 | Connie | TV series, 1 episode |
| Wentworth | 2013-2014 | Rita Bennett 3 episodes -Captive -The Pink Dragon -Metamorphosis | TV series, 3 episodes |
| Glitch | 2015 | Jo Willis | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
| Cleverman | 2016 | Virgil | ABC TV series, 2 episodes |
| Deep Water | 2016 | Rhys' Mother | SBS TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| Newton's Law | 2017 | Martha Payne | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
| Harrow | 2018 | Millicent Bruce | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
| Molly and Cara | 2019 | Molly | TV series |
| Reckoning | 2020 | Kitty | TV miniseries, 1 episode 4: You Should Be Dancing |
| Aftertaste | 2022 | June | ABC TV series, 6 episodes |
References
- 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.
- "Lynette Curran, Julian Maroun and Syd Brisbane added to 'Aftertaste' for season two". IF Magazine. 27 February 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
External links
- Lynette Curran at IMDb
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