Julia Blake

Julia Blake

Born: May 13, 1937
in Bristol, England, UK
Julia Blake (born 13 May 1937) is an English-born Australian actress of theatre and television. She is best known to television audiences for her three roles in the cult series Prisoner – Evelyn Randall in 1981, Alice Dodds in 1983 and Nancy McCormack in 1986.

Movies for Julia Blake...

The Dry
Title: The Dry
Character: Barb Hadler
Released: January 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
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A Month of Sundays
Title: A Month of Sundays
Character: Sarah
Released: April 28, 2016
Type: Movie
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
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Looking for Grace
Title: Looking for Grace
Character: Nell Norris
Released: January 26, 2016
Type: Movie
When rebellious 16-year-old Grace takes off, her exasperated mum and dad enlist the help of a close-to-retirement detective, and begin the long drive from Perth out to the West Australian wheatbelt to try to find her. On the journey, the two must confront the realities of their changing relationship to one another, and to their daughter…
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The Dressmaker
Title: The Dressmaker
Character: Irma Almanac
Released: October 29, 2015
Type: Movie
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
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Is This the Real World
Title: Is This the Real World
Character: Gamma
Released: March 6, 2015
Type: Movie
In the real world you can't just do what you want. In the real world you have to compromise. Mark Blazey does not want to live in the real world. Living in a semi-industrial coastal town, seventeen-year old Mark is a smart kid from a chaotic family who has just thrown away a scholarship to a private school and found himself at the local high. At school Mark is zeroed in on by an overbearing principal who dominates everything around him. At home Mark is dealing with a jail-bound brother, his grandmother is fighting for her life, and a mum who's short fuse is kept doused with cask wine. His little sister is someone he wants to protect. When Mark finds his first real love he tries to escape all the forces in his life with her. But his love is with the daughter of his nemesis, the school principal. Simmering tensions boil over between the student and the teacher, between the son and his mother.
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Title: Mr & Mrs Murder
Character: Allegra Scaletta
Released: February 20, 2013
Type: TV
Charlie and Nicola Buchanan are crime scene cleaners whose unique quirks and talents solve the most baffling murder mysteries.
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Last Dance
Title: Last Dance
Character: Ulah
Released: June 30, 2012
Type: Movie
Australian thriller film about a Muslim man (Firass Dirani) who kidnaps an elderly Melbourne Jewish woman (Julia Blake) and holds her hostage.
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Title: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Character: Hilly McNaster
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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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Title: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Character: Mrs. Underhill
Released: November 6, 2010
Type: Movie
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
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Matching Jack
Title: Matching Jack
Character: Cleo
Released: August 19, 2010
Type: Movie
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
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Hawke
Title: Hawke
Character: Ellie Hawke
Released: July 18, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of Bob Hawke - Australia's most loved Prime Minister as he faces his greatest challenge: a battle within his own party. As he fights for his life, we discover his incredible transformation from a hard-drinking womanising trade union leader into a visionary world leader. For a man who once sacrificed his family to his job, he must now rely solely on his friendships and allegiances to defeat his challenger and remain in power.
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The Boys Are Back
Title: The Boys Are Back
Character: Barbara
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and other parents, he develops his own philosophies on parenting.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Title: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Character: Heather Hudson
Released: April 28, 2009
Type: Movie
After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
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Title: Bed of Roses
Character: Minna Franklin
Released: May 10, 2008
Type: TV
Bed of Roses is an Australian comedy / drama television series which first screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 10 May 2008. It stars Kerry Armstrong and was created by Jutta Goetze and Elizabeth Coleman; produced by Mark Ruse and Stephen Luby.
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The Society Murders
Title: The Society Murders
Character: Margaret Wales-King
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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Aquamarine
Title: Aquamarine
Character: Grandma Maggie
Released: March 3, 2006
Type: Movie
Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists the girls' help in winning the heart of a handsome lifeguard.
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Three Dollars
Title: Three Dollars
Character: Tanya's Mother
Released: April 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.
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Title: Salem's Lot
Character: Eva Prunier
Released: June 20, 2004
Type: TV
A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.
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Innocence
Title: Innocence
Character: Claire
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her first husband, John. Andreas and Claire find that the connection they shared when they were young is still there and they soon become involved in a rekindled love affair.
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Passion
Title: Passion
Character: Queen Alexandra
Released: July 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Passion concentrates on Grainger's unusual relationship with his mother and his sexual peculiarities (especially his obsessive self-flagellation, though homosexuality is also hinted at) which affect his relationship with a woman who comes to love him. It is set mainly in London in 1914, when Grainger's mother Rose was ill (she would later jump to her death in New York, upset by ill-founded rumours of incest with her son).
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A Difficult Woman
Title: A Difficult Woman
Character: Mrs. McKenzie
Released: May 21, 1999
Type: Movie
Anne (Caroline Goodall) is a successful pathologist for a top pharmaceutical corporation, and her life couldn't be better. That is, until one of her oldest and dearest friends is murdered, turning Anne's world upside down. Not satisfied with the status of the investigation, she takes it on herself, and what she finds out could threaten her career -- and her life.
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Hotel de Love
Title: Hotel de Love
Character: Edith Dunne
Released: December 19, 1996
Type: Movie
10 years ago at a party, Steven thinks he sees the girl of his dreams, Melissa. Just as he's about to make his move, his twin brother Rick gets to her first and they fall in love. Steven watches his brother's relationship bloom, longing for Melissa all the while. Eventually, Melissa leaves to go to college and the brothers go on with their lives. Steven becomes a workaholic to block out his feelings about Melissa and Rick becomes a spineless bellboy at the Hotel de Love, after a later girl friend stood him up at the altar. Enter Steven and Rick's warring parents visiting the Hotel de Love for their anniversary. Re-enter Melissa with her current boyfriend, Norman. Suddenly Rick and Steven have a second chance at Melissa. Also there's Alison the palm reader, Susie behind the counter, the owner/piano player, and the freshly married couple.
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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Title: The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
Character: Fee Cleary
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Mushrooms
Title: Mushrooms
Character: Flo
Released: July 20, 1995
Type: Movie
In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.
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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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Father
Title: Father
Character: Iya Zetnick
Released: August 16, 1990
Type: Movie
On a TV tabloid show, Iya Zetnick exposes Joe Mueller as the Nazi war criminal who killed her family.
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Georgia
Title: Georgia
Character: Elizabeth
Released: October 12, 1989
Type: Movie
A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely an accident?
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Travelling North
Title: Travelling North
Character: Frances
Released: June 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Travelling North tells the story of Frank, a crotchety old man with an unending zest and passion for life and Frances his much younger companion travelling to Queensland to enjoy their retirement and each other. Unfortunately the North cannot calm Frank's complex personality and Frances watches helplessly as Frank struggles to understand his own emotional and physical limitations.
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Title: Sword of Honour
Character: Jean Rogers
Released: October 20, 1986
Type: TV
Capturing the spirit of the age and the turmoil of the times, Sword of Honour tells the heartbreaking story of a nation at war, the soldiers who left their families to fight, the social upheaval and the emotionally perilous journey back home.
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The Dunera Boys
Title: The Dunera Boys
Character: Mum
Released: October 3, 1985
Type: Movie
At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were many Jewish refugees and many who were fully assimilated. This film records the story of a group who were sent to a POW camp in Australia aboard the Dunera.
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Title: Zoo Family
Character: Mrs. Watson
Released: July 28, 1985
Type: TV
Follows a family who live at Melbourne Zoo in Victoria, Australia. Doctor David Mitchell is the zoo's veterinarian. His children Nick and Susie love being with all the animals.
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An Indecent Obsession
Title: An Indecent Obsession
Character: Matron
Released: May 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.
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My First Wife
Title: My First Wife
Character: Kristin
Released: September 12, 1984
Type: Movie
My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer them. Helen has decided to leave, and it is John who lacks the inner resources to cope with the impending tragedy. Slowly he is sucked into a tunnel of despair – fighting his conservative nature and the romantic memories of his married life.
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Title: Under Capricorn
Character: Milly
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: TV
Helen Simpson's scorching novel of passion and unspoken loyalty is brought to life in a major mini series unfolding in the epic Australian tradition of Against The Wind and Sara Dane.
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Lonely Hearts
Title: Lonely Hearts
Released: November 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
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Title: The Last Outlaw
Character: Mrs. Scott
Released: October 20, 1980
Type: TV
An unmistakable Australian icon - a smoking revolver, two piercing eyes behind a makeshift mask of armour. But beyond the armour, behind the eyes was a man both ruthless and gentle, rugged and kind - the infamous last outlaw, Ned Kelly was his name. Both revered and reviled throughout the ages Ned Kelly was an Irish-Australian battler-cum-bushranger, fiercely independent and pushed into action by the repressive colonial authorities of the time. The Last Outlaw examines the life of Ned Kelly, and expounds the legend from early indiscretions and the formation of his gang through to the violent killings at Stringy Bark Creek, culminating in his explosive last stand and shoot out at Glenrowan. The Last Outlaw is a remarkable four-part miniseries presentation that deflects historical judgement and allows the legend to live on.
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Title: Locusts And Wild Honey
Character: Dr. Fletcher
Released: April 13, 1980
Type: TV
Sarah and Jane Norris star alongside their real-life mother Julia Blake as two girls who go missing in what is suspected to be an alien abduction.
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My Brilliant Career
Title: My Brilliant Career
Character: Mother
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.
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Snapshot
Title: Snapshot
Character: Mrs. Bailey
Released: June 1, 1979
Type: Movie
A young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend.
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Title: Twenty Good Years (AU)
Released: April 24, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Prisoner: Cell Block H
Character: Nancy McCormack
Released: February 26, 1979
Type: TV
Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
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Patrick
Title: Patrick
Character: Matron Cassidy
Released: October 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills though his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
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Title: Against the Wind
Character: Cook
Released: September 12, 1978
Type: TV
Against the Wind was a 1978 Australian television mini-series. It is a historical drama portraying both the British rule of Ireland, and the development of New South Wales and Australia. The producers were Bronwyn Binns, Ian Jones and Henry Crawford. The directors were George T. Miller and Simon Wincer. The scriptwriters were Bronwyn Binns, Ian Jones, Peter Kinlock, Tony Morphett, Paul Davies and Cliff Green. Jon English won the Logie Award in 1979 for "Best new talent" for his role in the miniseries as "Jonathan Garrett". The complete series is now available on DVD in Australia, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands in PAL format. It is also available in North American format.
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The Forbidden
Title: The Forbidden
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An early experimental short film based on Faust.
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Salome
Title: Salome
Released: November 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A stylised interpretation of Oscar Wilde's play "Salome".