Heather Mitchell

Heather Mitchell

Born: January 1, 1958
in Australia
Heather Mitchell (born 1958) is an Australian actress, appearing in Australian productions of stage, television and film. She is a graduate of NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art). She is best known for her leading role in the 1990s television show Spellbinder.

Movies for Heather Mitchell...

Ricky Stanicky
Title: Ricky Stanicky
Character: Leona
Released: February 21, 2024
Type: Movie
When three childhood best friends pull a prank gone wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years later, the trio still uses the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their immature behavior. But when their spouses and partners get suspicious and demand to finally meet the fabled Mr. Stanicky, the guilty trio decide to hire a washed-up actor and raunchy celebrity impersonator to bring him to life.
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Jones Family Christmas
Title: Jones Family Christmas
Character: Heather Jones
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Grandmother Heather Jones has finally managed to get her family home for Christmas. But before the festivities begin, they receive a fire evacuation order. Now, the family must band together as they rediscover what matters most – each other.
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Title: It's Fine, I'm Fine
Character: Maeve
Released: October 10, 2022
Type: TV
Follows a suburban Australian psychologist and the ups and downs of her patients as they explore love, loss, anxiety, obsession and the uncertain future ahead. It celebrates the mess and melancholy of life with elements of unexpected magical realism.
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Blaze
Title: Blaze
Character: Jackie Stevens
Released: August 25, 2022
Type: Movie
After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.
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Bosch & Rockit
Title: Bosch & Rockit
Character: Wendy
Released: August 18, 2022
Type: Movie
As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.
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Title: Darby and Joan
Character: Rosemary
Released: August 8, 2022
Type: TV
An English widow on a reluctant quest. An Australian detective escaping his past. When lives collide, two strangers embark on an epic outback odyssey together.
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Title: Love Me
Character: Anita
Released: December 26, 2021
Type: TV
The Mathiesons, Clara (30s), Glen (60s) and Aaron (20s), find themselves at an emotional crossroads following an unexpected event that changes their lives forever.
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Title: The Unusual Suspects
Character: Birdie
Released: June 3, 2021
Type: TV
Follows the theft of a multi-million-dollar necklace and the women from different walks of life who come together to ensure that justice is served.
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Title: Wakefield
Character: Belle
Released: April 18, 2021
Type: TV
Nikhil Katira is a psychiatric nurse working at Wakefield, a facility perched on the edge of Australia's spectacular Blue Mountains. There's one problem - while his patients are getting better, he's getting worse.
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Title: Upright
Character: Jen Flynn
Released: November 28, 2019
Type: TV
When family outcast Lucky Flynn learns that his mother is dying, he decides to drive to the other side of Australia to see her, packing nothing but an upright piano for the journey. But his plans are soon turned upside down when he meets the runaway teenager Meg, who’s dealing with some family demons of her own.
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Title: The Strange Chores
Character: Inspector (voice)
Released: October 31, 2019
Type: TV
Charlie and Pierce are two teenage wannabe warrior-heroes who, together with the spirited ghost girl Que, master the skills they need to replace an ageing monster slayer by doing his strange, supernatural chores.
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Palm Beach
Title: Palm Beach
Character: Eva
Released: August 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop for the unfolding drama. The good times roll, with loads of laughter, lavish meals, flowing wine and fantastic music, but slowly tensions mount and deep secrets arise.
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Title: Reef Break
Character: Maeve Devlin
Released: June 19, 2019
Type: TV
Cat Chambers is a thief-turned-fixer for the governor of a stunning and seductive Pacific Island paradise. Impulsive, reckless, and irresistible, Cat's less-than-perfect past gives her an instinctive gift for understanding crime and criminals as she becomes enmeshed in fast-paced, high-octane adventures and island intrigue.
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Title: Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries
Character: Edwina Maddox
Released: February 21, 2019
Type: TV
In swinging 60’s Melbourne, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine must prove herself brilliant enough to become a world class private detective in her own right.
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Pimped
Title: Pimped
Character: Sophia
Released: August 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Over the course of one night, Sarah meets the handsome, captivating and smooth talking Lewis, who aims to be the bait in a sick sexual trap set up by himself and his low-life, rich kid housemate Kenneth. When their ruse backfires, Lewis and Sarah are forced into an unlikely alliance with deadly consequences.
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Title: Harrow
Character: Louise Whitehall
Released: March 9, 2018
Type: TV
When a dark secret from this past threatens to be exposed, unorthodox and brilliant medical examiner, Doctor Daniel Harrow, must use all his forensic skills to keep it buried forever.
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Riot
Title: Riot
Character: Joan / Checkerboard Interviewer
Released: February 25, 2018
Type: Movie
A look at the 1970s Gay Rights Movement in Australia through the eyes of dedicated activist Lance Gowland. As Lance deals with his sexuality, he must also juggle work, family and relationships.
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Drown
Title: Drown
Character: Helen
Released: March 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay.
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Title: Starting From Now
Character: Elizabeth
Released: March 11, 2014
Type: TV
"Starting From Now" is a lesbian web series that explores the lives of four inner-Sydney women as they struggle to work out who they are, find a place where they belong, and maybe even find someone to love along the way. After building an international viral following across the first three seasons and reaching 20 million views in less than two years on YouTube, seasons 4 and 5 were acquired for broadcast television and screened on SBS2 in March, 2016.
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Title: Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story
Character: Gretel Packer
Released: August 9, 2013
Type: TV
The making of modern Australia through the eyes of competing media moguls Sir Frank Packer and a young Rupert Murdoch.
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The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
Character: Daisy's Mother
Released: May 9, 2013
Type: Movie
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
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The Red Valentine
Title: The Red Valentine
Character: The Mother
Released: April 24, 2013
Type: Movie
When a pair of young lovers are discovered dead, a tangled web of deception unravels revealing that behind the passionate tragedy lies a dangerous truth.
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Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Title: Jack Irish: Bad Debts
Character: Mrs Vane
Released: October 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover - the complete man really. Jack is an expert in finding those who don't want to be found - dead or alive. He helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
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Title: Agony Aunts
Character: Self
Released: May 2, 2012
Type: TV
Welcome to Agony Aunts, where narrator/interviewer Adam Zwar heads further down the river in his hilarious search for answers on dating, cohabitation, marriage, divorce and dating again. Will he find the answers he seeks or will he return more confused than ever? That's if he returns at all.
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Title: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Character: Madame Fleuri
Released: February 24, 2012
Type: TV
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.
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Title: Killing Time
Character: Judge Hale
Released: November 2, 2011
Type: TV
Killing Time is an Australian television drama series on TV1 subscription television channel which first screened in 2011. It is based on the true story of disgraced lawyer Andrew Fraser. In New Zealand it screens on Prime Television. The ten part series is written by Ian David, Mac Gudgeon, Katherine Thompson and Shaun Grant. The executive producer is Jason Stephens. The series was initially due to screen in 2010 but was deferred due to strong violence and horror content scenes of the mini-series, which jeopardised a series of gangland trials that were in progress.
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The Eye of the Storm
Title: The Eye of the Storm
Character: June
Released: September 15, 2011
Type: Movie
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.
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A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
Title: A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne
Character: June Dally-Watkins
Released: April 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Australian television film based on alleged events surrounding the death of Caroline Byrne in June 1995. Byrne was found in the early morning of 8 June at the base of a cliff at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney.
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Griff the Invisible
Title: Griff the Invisible
Character: Bronwyn
Released: March 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.
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Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away
Title: Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away
Character: Rose McMillan
Released: February 21, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of David McMillan an Australian drug smuggler and the only person in history to escape from Klong Prem prison in Bangkok.
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Afterglow
Title: Afterglow
Character: Kate Whitcomb
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
AFTERGLOW is a short film about a moment in time when a man is confronted with his past actions. The love of a young woman leads him to a place of the most profound loss. A loss that will force him to question the very meaning of his own life and those he loves.
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The Wedding Party
Title: The Wedding Party
Character: Rose
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
When Steve's secret marriage of convenience is discovered by his family, he finds himself at the centre of the world's most farcical wedding, the only problem is, he is in love with somebody else.
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Three Blind Mice
Title: Three Blind Mice
Character: Kathy
Released: June 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.
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Emerald Falls
Title: Emerald Falls
Character: Catherine Reid
Released: March 23, 2008
Type: Movie
After a brutal divorce, a mother and her son relocate to the Blue Mountains to run a Bed and Breakfast.
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Title: Satisfaction
Character: Georgia
Released: December 5, 2007
Type: TV
Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their secret profession.
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Rogue
Title: Rogue
Character: Elizabeth
Released: November 8, 2007
Type: Movie
When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud island with the tide quickly rising and darkness descending. As the hungry predator closes in, they must fight for survival against all odds.
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Title: Rain Shadow
Character: Sarah Balfour
Released: October 7, 2007
Type: TV
Rain Shadow is an Australian television drama series which premiered on 7 October 2007 on ABC TV. It aired on Sundays at 8.30 pm. The six-part series was produced by Southern Star. Music from The Audreys features in the soundtrack for the show, including the main theme. Rain Shadow was shot in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia and is set in the fictional district of Paringa, a dry land farming area in a rain shadow. It tells the story of two characters who become the means of each other's future. It stars Rachel Ward as district vet Kate McDonald and Victoria Thaine as new veterinary assistant Jill Blake.
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The Society Murders
Title: The Society Murders
Character: Sally Honan
Released: June 18, 2006
Type: Movie
The Society Murders was the name given to the April 4, 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by their son, Matthew Wales. The crime and subsequent trial received widespread media coverage throughout Australia and later became the subject of both a book and a television film.
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Irresistible
Title: Irresistible
Character: Rina
Released: April 18, 2006
Type: Movie
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
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Da Kath & Kim Code
Title: Da Kath & Kim Code
Character: Heather
Released: November 27, 2005
Type: Movie
The squabbling mother and daughter, Kath and Kim, embark on an excursion into the unexplored crannies of life at Lagoon Court, Fountain Lakes.
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Hell Has Harbour Views
Title: Hell Has Harbour Views
Character: Anne
Released: January 30, 2005
Type: Movie
Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2005 Australian television movie starring Matt Day and Lisa McCune. It was written and directed by Peter Duncan, based on the novel of the same name by Richard Beasley. It was nominated for "best miniseries or telemovie" at both the AFI Awards and the Logie Awards, losing to The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant at both; and for two additional AFI Awards and an additional Logie Award, all of which it lost to Love My Way.
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The Brush-Off
Title: The Brush-Off
Character: Fiona Lambert
Released: September 5, 2004
Type: Movie
The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a disgruntled artist.
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Title: Jessica
Released: July 18, 2004
Type: TV
Set in the Australian outback at the turn of the twentieth century, this family based drama follows a young woman who is unjustly institutionalised.
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Black and White
Title: Black and White
Character: Roma Chamberlain
Released: October 31, 2002
Type: Movie
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing. With a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics, the skills of his two gifted but naïve defense lawyers are put to the test.
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The Love of Lionel's Life
Title: The Love of Lionel's Life
Character: Detective Sergeant
Released: July 9, 2000
Type: Movie
Lionel Burke is young, single and living in a remote Queensland mining town. Life is pretty good apart from the impossible odds of falling in love. Keeping it a secret, particularly from his mates, Lionel strikes up a video relationship with Lena.
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On the Beach
Title: On the Beach
Character: British Anchorwoman
Released: May 28, 2000
Type: Movie
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.
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Title: The Day of the Roses
Character: Margaret Shuttler
Released: October 18, 1998
Type: TV
On January 18th, 1977, a crowded commuter train heading for Sydney, came off the track and struck the pillars of an overhead road bridge, crushing part of the train and killing 83 passengers and injuring more than 200 others. This story follows the coronial inquiry into the crash with flash-backs to the main story, and the efforts of the rescuers to free the injured victims.
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A Little Bit of Soul
Title: A Little Bit of Soul
Character: Grace Michael
Released: March 19, 1998
Type: Movie
Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. Both apply for funding from the Michael Foundation, and are asked to spend the weekend discussing the proposals with the Head of the Foundation, who happens to be married to the Australian Treasurer. They have a very interesting weekend.
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Thank God He Met Lizzie
Title: Thank God He Met Lizzie
Character: Melanie
Released: November 20, 1997
Type: Movie
The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.
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Children of the Revolution
Title: Children of the Revolution
Character: Mrs. Savage
Released: December 26, 1996
Type: Movie
A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
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Bathing Boxes
Title: Bathing Boxes
Character: 1st Woman
Released: August 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The ebb and flow of erotic desire makes for a summertime splash in this vibrant realisation by Ann Turner. Inspired by a Jeffrey Smart painting, Turner's work starts out baking in the sun before it takes a cool dip beyond the sexual shoreline.
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Title: Spellbinder
Character: Ashka
Released: January 9, 1995
Type: TV
A group of teenagers go on a school camp in the Blue Mountains in Australia. While at the camp, Paul Reynolds accidentally goes into a parallel universe. This other world is inhabited by a more hierarchic and technologically different society, ruled by a group of people known as Spellbinders.
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Muriel's Wedding
Title: Muriel's Wedding
Character: Bridal Manageress #1
Released: September 29, 1994
Type: Movie
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
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Cody: Bad Love
Title: Cody: Bad Love
Character: Simmonds
Released: June 11, 1994
Type: Movie
Cody’s investigation of an art theft leads him to Claudia who works at an art gallery where the certificate of the stolen painting is held. His judgement may be clouded when he discovers the federal police suspect Claudia of smuggling the paintings.
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Cody: A Family Affair
Title: Cody: A Family Affair
Character: Simmonds
Released: June 5, 1994
Type: Movie
Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brought the diamonds in from South Africa. He also searches for a missing teenager.
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Cody: The Tipoff
Title: Cody: The Tipoff
Character: Simmonds
Released: June 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Cody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend Jimmy Catter.
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Clowning Around 2
Title: Clowning Around 2
Character: Sarah Gunner
Released: August 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Sim, now a member of the Winter Circus in Paris, befriends Eve, another young clown. Drawn to an experimental style of clowning used by Circus Oz and Cirque du Soleil, the techniques get them both fired, but when Sim returns home to Australia, he finds that he is now the inheritor of a share in the Rathnow Circus.
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Proof
Title: Proof
Character: Martin's Mother
Released: August 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.
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The Everlasting Secret Family
Title: The Everlasting Secret Family
Character: Wife
Released: March 10, 1988
Type: Movie
A beautiful, if ambitious and amoral, youth is tapped to become the lover of a powerful senator. The young man quickly realizes that he can hold this place, with all its perks, only as long as he is young. He has no other function than being young. With the help of an aged judge, the young man, referred to only as The Lover, contrives a plan to make a change in the way of the world, a plan that will take him years to realize. To succeed, he must manipulate, in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the senator, his wife, the family chauffeur (who was, when young, a lover), and, by implication, the entire well-planned and controlling everlasting secret family.
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The Place at the Coast
Title: The Place at the Coast
Character: Margot Ryan
Released: September 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Teenager Ellie is distressed by forces that threaten the special family holidays she shares with her widowed father. These threats are posed by a new coastal development and her father's new relationship with a local woman. Ellie desperately clings to memories and places that preserve the memory of her late mother.
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Malcolm
Title: Malcolm
Character: Barmaid
Released: July 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. With Frank's help, Malcolm turns to a life of crime.
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Title: Land of Hope
Released: May 18, 1986
Type: TV
Land of Hope is a 1986 mini series about a Catholic family over eighty years.
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Title: Bodyline
Character: Edith
Released: July 16, 1984
Type: TV
Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.
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Title: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Character: Old Ella
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Burma Railway in 1943 and across the Pacific during World War II, charts the cruelty of war, the tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love, as seen through the eyes of an Australian doctor and prisoner of war.