Simone Buchanan

Simone Buchanan

Born: March 11, 1968
in Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Simone Buchanan (born 11 March 1968) is an Australian film and television actress, and television director. She is best known for her television roles as Debbie Kelly in Australia's most successful and longest running sitcom Hey Dad...!

Simone Buchanan went on to star alongside Deborah Lee Furness in internationally acclaimed feature film Shame. Simone has also starred in many television dramas including Neighbours, McLeod's Daughters, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, All Saints, Pacific Drive, A Country Practice, Sons and Daughters and Upper Middle Bogan. Her film credits include: Forced Entry, Push, High Country, Doctors and Nurses , My Brilliant Career, Patrick alongside Rachel Griffiths and Charles Dance and most recently Boar starring alongside Huge Sheridan and John Jarratt. She has been married to Brett Smith since April 5, 2008. They have two children.

Movies for Simone Buchanan...

Girl at the Window
Title: Girl at the Window
Character: Christina Ellis
Released: August 18, 2022
Type: Movie
A troubled teenage girl who’s struggling to cope with the accidental death of her father suspects that the mysterious killer stalking her hometown is not only her neighbour but her mother’s new romantic interest.
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The Possessed
Title: The Possessed
Character: Carissa
Released: October 29, 2021
Type: Movie
A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the ultimate confrontation. Inspired by actual events.
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Boar
Title: Boar
Character: Debbie
Released: June 17, 2018
Type: Movie
In the harsh, yet beautiful Australian outback lives a beast, an animal of staggering size, with a ruthless, driving need for blood and destruction. It cares for none, defends its territory with brutal force, and kills with a raw, animalistic savagery unlike any have seen before.
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Patrick
Title: Patrick
Character: Patrick's Mother
Released: October 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.
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Title: Upper Middle Bogan
Character: Kirby
Released: August 15, 2013
Type: TV
Follow the stories of two families living at opposite ends of the freeway. Bess Denyar is a doctor with a posh mother, Margaret, an architect husband, Danny Bright, and twin 13-year-olds at a private school, Oscar and Edwina. When Bess finds out that she is adopted, she is stunned, but even more so when she meets her birth parents, Wayne and Julie Wheeler. She also discovers that she has three siblings: Amber, Kayne and Brianna. The bogan Wheelers head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs and are thrilled to discover the daughter they thought they had lost.
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Title: McLeod's Daughters
Released: August 8, 2001
Type: TV
When Jack McLeod passes away, his two daughters inherit Drovers Run, a vast cattle ranch in the Australian outback. Ultimately, Tess and Claire decide to run the ranch together, with their housekeeper, Meg, her teenage daughter, Jodi, and a local girl, Becky. Their lives are hard and the obstacles many, but the rewards are every bit as grand as the wild open land they've inherited.
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Title: Water Rats
Released: February 12, 1996
Type: TV
Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.
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Title: Pacific Drive
Character: Laura Harris
Released: January 29, 1996
Type: TV
Pacific Drive is an Australian television series The series was conceived as a flamboyant, melodramatic soap opera and dealt with the lives of wealthy Australians living on the Gold Coast. Although criticised for being an Australian copy of the American soap opera Melrose Place, its outrageous storylines - including corporate scheming, various affairs, serial killers and a lesbian love triangle - saw the series gain a cult reputation.
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Title: Blue Heelers
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.
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Title: R.F.D.S.
Character: Rebecca Owens
Released: January 21, 1993
Type: TV
R.F.D.S. was created as a spinoff of the popular series The Flying Doctors and is set in the mining town of Broken Hill.
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Shame
Title: Shame
Character: Lizzie Curtis
Released: February 26, 1988
Type: Movie
Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell's relaxing ride turns tense when her motorcycle malfunctions and she makes a pit stop in a remote town. Cadell meets teen Elizabeth Curtis, who confides that she has just been raped, and Cadell helps the young woman report the crime to the authorities. When police corruption stands in the way of justice, she takes matters into her own hands.
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Title: Hey Dad..!
Character: Debbie Kelly
Released: February 11, 1987
Type: TV
Hey Dad..! was an Australian sitcom produced by Gary Reilly Productions, originally airing from 1987 to 1994 on the Seven Network.
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Title: The Flying Doctors
Character: Lucy
Released: May 15, 1986
Type: TV
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
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Run Chrissie Run!
Title: Run Chrissie Run!
Character: Cathy
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The action moves along quickly, jumping over holes in the script, in this made-for-television drama about Eve, an ex-terrorist from Germany who is forced to escape to Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie when she is sought by Riley, a lover from 17 years in the past. In turn, the IRA has sent two members after Riley because he shot an IRA soldier and must pay the consequences. The two IRA operatives looking for Riley come across a really nasty biker who wants vengeance on Eve for setting his car on fire -- and the three men finally track her and Chrissie to the wine-growing country of Barossa Valley. The final denouement is about to explode, as Riley also arrives on the scene. With under-par acting and a patchy plot, this film was never released theatrically.
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Platypus Cove
Title: Platypus Cove
Character: Jenny Nelson
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
After saving a drowning boy's life, a fifteen-year-old orphan is taken aboard by the family as a deckhand.
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Title: Neighbours
Released: March 18, 1985
Type: TV
Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera. The show's storylines concern the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in Erinsborough, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The series primarily centres around the residents of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac, and its neighbouring areas, the Lassiters complex, which includes a bar, hotel, cafe, news office and park. Neighbours began with three families created by Watson – the Ramsays, the Robinsons and the Clarkes. Watson said that he wanted to show three families who are friends living in a small street. The Robinsons and the Ramsays had a long history and were involved in an ongoing rivalry.
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Title: Runaway Island
Character: Jemma McLeod
Released: October 6, 1984
Type: TV
Australia 1830. Jemma and Jamie McCloud are left behind on their father's farm with their aunt Agatha. Lachlan McCloud sails to England to ask attention from the government to do something about the corruption in New South Wales. While he's away aunt Agatha sells the farm and the two children are left homeless. Jemma and Jamie are told that their father drowned at sea. They meet Red Tom and Nipper and are determined to find their father's will.
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High Country
Title: High Country
Character: Debbie Lomax
Released: August 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Following the death of his wife, mountain cattleman, Ben Lomax leaves the high country but is forced to return when he learns his prize stallion is to be run in a race that will break him.
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Title: Secret Valley
Character: Simone
Released: May 10, 1982
Type: TV
Secret Valley was a fictitious children's holiday camp in Bildarra which had been transformed from a run down ghost town into a resort. The children who worked and visited the camp often found themselves in battle against a gang of "bad" kids - Spider McGlurk and his gang from "Spider Cave". These battles usually featured flour bombs and other food related missiles and everyone inevitably ended up in a big mess.
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Mystery at Castle House
Title: Mystery at Castle House
Character: Kate
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A trio of kids have many exciting adventures while exploring a spooky mansion in the hope of finding their missing friends.
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Doctors & Nurses
Title: Doctors & Nurses
Character: Jane Gilmour
Released: December 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
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Run Rebecca, Run!
Title: Run Rebecca, Run!
Character: Rebecca
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Simone Buchanan plays a young camera fanatic who is marooned on a desert island. Here she is threatened by a refugee from South America (Henri Szeps) who isn't keen on having his whereabouts known. Hostility melts into friendship before the rescue boats arrive.
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My Brilliant Career
Title: My Brilliant Career
Character: Mary Anne
Released: August 17, 1979
Type: Movie
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.