Anne Tenney

Anne Tenney

Born: January 1, 1954
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Anne Tenney (born 1954) is an Australian film, television and theatre actress, perhaps best known for her soap opera roles as Melissa "Molly" Jones in the television drama A Country Practice (1981-1985) and Liz Taylor in Always Greener (2001-2003).

Tenney is married to Australian actor Shane Withington, who played her character's husband Brendan Jones in A Country Practice, they has a daughter, actress Maddie Withington.

Movies for Anne Tenney...

Title: Underbelly: Vanishing Act
Character: Barbara Grimley
Released: April 3, 2022
Type: TV
The story of Melissa Caddick, a woman who disappeared after swindling over $40 million from her most trusted clients.
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Cliffy
Title: Cliffy
Character: Eunice
Released: May 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of the early eighties, Cliffy retraces his extraordinary journey from famously training in gumboots among cow paddocks through the epic six-day period of the ultra marathon and his emergence as Australia's most unlikely sporting hero.
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Title: headLand
Character: Kerry Lewis
Released: November 15, 2005
Type: TV
Headland is an Australian drama television series produced by the Seven Network which ran from 15 November 2005 to 21 January 2006. The Seven Network filmed 52 episodes in the first series. Production on the second series had begun before any episodes were aired. Set in a university, Headland premiered in Australia on Tuesday, 15 November 2005 at 7.30pm. On 23 January 2006, the Seven Network officially announced that the series has been cancelled. The show aired on weekdays at 7.30pm in the United Kingdom on E4, re-formatted as half-hour episodes. E4 eventually dropped the show but episodes continued to be broadcast on Channel 4 at 12:30pm, this time in the original hour-long format.
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Title: Always Greener
Character: Liz Taylor
Released: September 9, 2001
Type: TV
Every city-dweller daydreams about dropping out of the rat-race and moving to the country. Every country-dweller wonders what it might be like to try their luck in the 'Big Smoke'. Always Greener is the story of two families who actually dare to give it a go.
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The Castle
Title: The Castle
Character: Sal Kerrigan
Released: April 10, 1997
Type: Movie
A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their home.
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Dead Heart
Title: Dead Heart
Character: Sarah
Released: September 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the white wife of local schoolteacher Les, has despoiled a sacred site by secretly meeting her aborigine lover, Tony, there, a shocking murder threatens to rip the small town apart.
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To The Other Shore
Title: To The Other Shore
Released: August 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmmaker’s childhood, family life and psychotherapy with world events, including the Holocaust, the Vietnam War and the Chernobyl nuclear accident, to evoke the complex inner world of maternal experience. Grethel’s tale from the fairy story Hansel and Grethel juxtaposes the personal story with a mythical exploration of freedom and individual responsibility.
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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: Escape from Jupiter
Released: April 10, 1994
Type: TV
Escape from Jupiter is a space adventure television series about a small group of children from a mining colony on Jupiter's moon, Io, who are forced to flee when a volcanic eruption destroys their world. With a few adult survivors, they seek shelter on the derelict space station KL5, floating above Io, convert it into a jerry-rigged spacecraft, and head off in a desperate attempt to reach Earth. They share many adventures and form close friendships on the dangerous journey. Escape from Jupiter concerned a small colony of humans on the moon of Io.
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Title: The Feds
Character: Suzi Plummer
Released: September 20, 1993
Type: TV
The Feds is a series of Australian television films starring Robert Taylor, which were first broadcast on the Nine Network 1993-1996. The Feds revolves around the activities of the Australian Federal Police, who protect the national interests from crime in Australia and overseas. Nine telemovies were produced in the series.
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Title: Brides of Christ
Character: Liz Heffernan
Released: September 4, 1991
Type: TV
Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, there is war in Vietnam and mandatory conscription, there is the Vatican controversy on abortion and contraception, and the changing face of the Church as a whole. Told in six parts, Diane faces her own demons and has to finally decide if she can teach what the Church preaches, or if it's simply impossible for her to reconcile all the contradictions of the faith and uphold her vow of obedience.
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Title: Police Rescue
Character: Katie McCarthy
Released: February 14, 1991
Type: TV
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
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Title: Elly & Jools
Released: June 11, 1990
Type: TV
Elly & Jools is an Australian children's television series that originally aired on the Nine Network in 1990. It starred Rebecca Smart as Elinor 'Elly' Lockett and Clayton Williamson as Julian 'Jools' Trevaller. It also featuredred Abigail, Anne Tenney, Peter Fisher, Dennis Miller, Damon Herriman and Vanessa Collier. The dog which appeared in the series also played the dingo in the Meryl Streep and Sam Neill film, A Cry in the Dark.
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Luigi’s Ladies
Title: Luigi’s Ladies
Character: Jane
Released: May 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Shaken by the stockmarket crash of ’87 … plus a few other distractions like attempted murder, flirtatious affairs and a lunatic, knife wielding chef … their friendship is put to the test! But, rest assured, these resilient women-of-the-world will pull through and enjoy many more entrées together at Luigi’s!
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Title: E Street
Character: Dr. Susan Franklin
Released: January 24, 1989
Type: TV
An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The stories revolve around the local community there. Created by Forrest Redlich and produced by Network Ten from 24 January 1989 to 13 May 1993.
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Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer
Title: Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer
Character: Marie Parer
Released: October 19, 1988
Type: Movie
The life story of Damien Parer, the acclaimed World War II photographer, who spent most of the war on the frontline.
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Takeover
Title: Takeover
Character: Hilda Oppenheimer
Released: February 10, 1988
Type: Movie
George Oppenheimer has two problems: an eccentric wife and an uncontrollable child. At work his team invented a computer with personality. George thinks the computer is faster, smarter and elegant. When his life falls apart, the computer offers suicide as the only alternative.
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Title: Flug in die Hölle
Character: Kate Webber
Released: May 28, 1985
Type: TV
The true account of two young German aviators, Captain Hans Bertram and Adolph Klausmann, who had to survive six weeks in the Kimberley region in Autralia after they were blown off course on a reckless flight from Koepang in the Dutch East Indies across the Timor Sea to Darwin in 1932.
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Title: A Country Practice
Character: Melissa 'Molly' Jones
Released: November 18, 1981
Type: TV
A Country Practice was an Australian television drama series. At its inception, one of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, who had wrote the pilot episode and entered a script contest for the network in 1979, coming third and winning a merit award. It ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping, Sydney. After its lengthy run on the seven network it was picked up by network ten with a mainly new cast from April to November 1994 for 30 episodes, although the ten series was not as successful as its predecessor . The Channel Seven series was also filmed on location in Pitt Town, while, the Channel Ten series was filmed on location in Emerald, Victoria.