Joanne Samuel

Joanne Samuel

Born: August 5, 1957
in Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joanne Samuel (born 1957 in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia) is an actress who remains best known for her role as the screen wife of Mel Gibson in the 1979 film Mad Max.

Prior to her appearance in the film, Samuel had made guest appearances in police procedurals Matlock Police and Homicide. She was then a regular cast member in television soap operas Class of '74, The Sullivans and The Young Doctors. She left The Young Doctors very suddenly – the producers kindly wrote her out of the show quickly as she was offered the Mad Max role after a fellow Young Doctors actress who had been due to take the role fell ill. Samuel later returned to television in the regular role of Kelly Morgan-Young in Skyways (TV series).

Samuel later guest starred in Hey Dad! as Jeanette Taylor and All Saints,  and played the school principal in The Wiggles in their film The Wiggles Movie.

Samuel is married to Tony Ahern. They have several children. They live in the Blue Mountains suburb of Blackheath and Samuel has retired from acting. Samuel is active in the local Baptist church. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Samuel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

Movies for Joanne Samuel...

What About Sal?
Title: What About Sal?
Character: Alice
Released: September 10, 2023
Type: Movie
With his mother dying of lung cancer, Sal, in his 30's and with Down Syndrome, embarks on a journey to find his father - a rock band singer that his mother had a one-night stand with - 30 years ago.
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Mad Max Exposed
Title: Mad Max Exposed
Character: self
Released: June 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Step into the world of the original Mad Max movie and take a rare behind the scenes look at the making of this groundbreaking film.
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Christmas Down Under
Title: Christmas Down Under
Character: Barbara Parker
Released: November 21, 2021
Type: Movie
Tightly wound Ellie flies to Australia and enlists the help of an Aboriginal Tour Guide and a YouTubefamous Uber driver to find her husband and his eclectic family, and along the way, find her true self. All before Christmas.
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Smoke Between Trees
Title: Smoke Between Trees
Character: Therese
Released: August 10, 2019
Type: Movie
An intimate portrait of a reluctant grandfather on a heart-warming journey of transformation – one that will lead him back to a home unlike any he ever imagined.
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Acute Misfortune
Title: Acute Misfortune
Character: Magistrate
Released: August 4, 2018
Type: Movie
The film adaptation of Erik Jensen's award-winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship.
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My Pet Dinosaur
Title: My Pet Dinosaur
Character: Doris Mercher
Released: April 22, 2017
Type: Movie
When a young boy named Jake accidentally makes a new friend in an experiment gone wrong a troubled town is plunged into chaos. But with the creature rapidly evolving every day, Jake finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new pet secret. Jake's friends and new girl Abbie realize they are not the only ones interested in this strange, mischievous little dinosaur and soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is who is looking for it.
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The Madness of Max
Title: The Madness of Max
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 2015
Type: Movie
The Madness of Max is a feature-length documentary on the making of arguably the most influential movie of the past thirty years. With over forty cast-and-crew interviews, hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs and never-before-seen film footage of the shoot, this is without a doubt the last word on Mad Max (1979).Interviews include: George Miller, Byron Kennedy, Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Roger Ward, Joanne Samuel, David Eggby, Jon Dowding and many more. From the Producers to the Bike Designers to the Traffic Stoppers, this is the story of how Mad Max was made.
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Not Quite Hollywood
Title: Not Quite Hollywood
Character: Self
Released: August 28, 2008
Type: Movie
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
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The Wiggles Movie
Title: The Wiggles Movie
Character: Mrs. Bingle
Released: December 18, 1997
Type: Movie
As the Wiggles prepare a surprise party for their friend Dorothy the Dinosaur, she goes after a magician who has stolen Greg's magic wand.
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Spook
Title: Spook
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Something is out there - in the bush - near the dilapidated old cabin, which a family from Sydney has rented for their vacation.
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Watch the Shadows Dance
Title: Watch the Shadows Dance
Character: Sonia Spane
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Robbie and his girlfriend, Amy, are among a group of students who play their private night games in the romantic thriller that catapulted Kidman to center stage. On screen throughout, Kidman discovers what will happen when a friendly game becomes real life ... and real life becomes a deadly game.
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Gallagher's Travels
Title: Gallagher's Travels
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
When reporter Danny Gallagher and photographer Sally Woodrow team-up to crack an international animal smuggling racket, the gang behind the operation leads the reckless pair on a chase across Australia straight into the jaws of fatal danger.
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Title: Five Times Dizzy
Released: October 2, 1986
Type: TV
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Queen of the Road
Title: Queen of the Road
Character: Rosy Costello
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A school teacher quits her job and starts a new life for herself as a truck driver
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Early Frost
Title: Early Frost
Character: Chris
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Private Detective Mike Hayes (Guy Doleman), is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation takes him into the lievs of two families living in the Sydney suburbs. Although they look like ordinary people, one of them is the killer. Hayes meets the strange teenager David Prentice (David Franklin), who keeps a violent crime scrapbook, and Val Meadows (Diane McLean), the mistress who believes that someone is trying to kill her. The more the investigation deepens, the more twisted and complex it becomes. It appears the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead, are her own family. Could it be her two sons, alienated by her dominant nature, her lover, or even her best friend?
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Mad Max 2
Title: Mad Max 2
Character: Jessie Rockatansky (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
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Alison's Birthday
Title: Alison's Birthday
Character: Alison Findlay
Released: May 1, 1981
Type: Movie
During a Ouija board session with her teenaged friends, 16-year-old Alison gets a message from beyond the grave not to go home for her birthday three years later.
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Title: Skyways
Released: July 19, 1979
Type: TV
Skyways is an Australian television series.
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Mad Max
Title: Mad Max
Character: Jessie Rockatansky
Released: April 12, 1979
Type: Movie
In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.
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Title: The Young Doctors
Released: November 8, 1976
Type: TV
The Young Doctors is an Australian early evening soap opera. The series was set in the fictional Albert Memorial hospital and primarily concerned with romances between younger members of the hospital staff, rather than typical medical issues and procedures. It screened on the Nine Network from Monday, 8 November 1976 until Wednesday, 30 March 1983.