Deborah Kennedy is an Australian actress recognised for several television and film roles, and for her appearance in a famous advertisement. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works
Kennedy began her acting career on the stage, with the Marion Street Theatre, appearing in The Trojan Woman and Macbeth. Macbeth is among the best-known of William Shakespeare 's plays, and is his shortest tragedy, believed to have been written some time between She followed this with work with several other theatrical organisations including SUDS, Repertory 200, the New Theatre, and the Pegeant Theatre. For the Nimrod theatre starting in 1975 she had several roles in plays, acting in Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III. Other theatre work includes Travelling North, House of the Deaf Man, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Desert Flambe.
Starting in the 1970s she also acted in various television roles, with appearances in Certain Women, Silent Number, Waygoose, Doctor Down Under, The Restless Years, Bellamy, 1915 (miniseries). Certain Women is an Australian Television Soap opera produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation between 1973 and Jamie Blanks is a Film director and Composer. He is probably most famous for directing the 1998 cult Slasher film Urban Legend. Doctor in the House is a British television comedy series based on a set of books and a movie of the same name by Richard Gordon about the misadventures The Restless Years was an Australian Soap opera following the lives of several Sydney school-leavers and young adults Bellamy is an Australian Television series made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981 Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Film roles of the period include Tim (1979) which starred Mel Gibson and Piper Laurie, Dawn! (1979), Temperament Unsuited [1]. Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3 1956 Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress of stage and screen noted for her role in the television series Twin Peaks
In the 1980s she played a brief guest role in soap opera Prisoner, and in 1991 was a regular cast member of serial Chances. A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Prisoner is an Australian television Soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre a fictional women's Prison Chances was an Australian evening Soap opera, produced from 1991 to 1992 She continued in that role several months until her character, nurse Connie Reynolds, was written out of the show as part of a cast revamp. In the 1990s continued television guest appearances included a recurring part in Police Rescue and roles in series Wildside and Good Guys Bad Guys. Police Rescue is an Australian Television series which aired on ABC between 1991 Wildside was a critically acclaimed Australian Police procedural Television series broadcast on the ABC from 1997 to 1999 Good Guys Bad Guys was an Australian crime TV series that screened on the Nine Network between 1997 and 1998 with a telemovie and twenty-six episodes produced Through this period she played supporting roles in several feature films, including I Can't Get Started (1985), The Empty Beach (1985), Death in Brunswick (1991), The Sum of Us (1994), Idiot Box (1996), Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997). I Can't Get Started is a Popular song, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by Vernon Duke, that was first heard in the Theatrical production Death in Brunswick is a 1991 Australian film starring Sam Neill, Zoe Carides and John Clarke. This article is about a play and its subsequent film adaptation Thank God He Met Lizzie is a 1997 Australian Romantic comedy film starring Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh. More recent feature film roles include My Mother Frank (2000), Matter of Life (2001), Swimming Upstream (2003). My Mother Frank is a multi-award-winning Australian Film released in 2000. Swimming Upstream is a 2003 Australian film directed by Russell Mulcahy.
Kennedy also appeared in the well-remembered Not Happy Jan commercial for the Yellow Pages telephone directory. Not happy Jan! is an advertising catchphrase which has entered the Australian cultural vernacular used to express displeasure In the 2000s television guest roles have included appearances series MacLeod's Daughters and Welcher & Welcher. McLeod's Daughters is an Australian television drama that aired on the Nine Network from 2001-2009 Welcher & Welcher was an Australian Sitcom written by and starring Shaun Micallef which aired on the ABC in 2003 Starting 2006 Kennedy has appeared in a recurring role in the soap opera Neighbours as Mishka Schneiderova, Lou Carpenter's Russian partner whom he met online. Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award -winning Australian Soap opera, which first aired in March 1985 Mishka Schneiderova (Russian Мишка Шнейдерова is a fictional Recurring character in the Network Ten Soap opera Neighbours Louis Thomas Carpenter is a Fictional character from the Australian Television Soap opera Neighbours, played by After completing a stint in the series Mishka made her on-air return in Australia in October 2006. These episodes will screen in the UK in January 2007.