Robina Beard
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
Robina Beard is an English-Australian actress born in Twickenham, England in 1938. Beard has appeared in numerous stage and TV roles, but is best known for playing 'Madge' the manicurist in the Australian and New Zealand TV advertisements for Palmolive dishwashing liquid from 1968. Beard took dancing classes from about age 6. In 1949 Beard's family migrated to Sydney , where she continued training in dance. Her professional career began in 1955 when she danced in the musical "Can-Can" for J. C. Williamson's. She performed in a number of stage productions including "Alice in Wonderland" in 1959 and "The Boy Friend" in 1968. From 1965 Beard worked on TV as a weather girl for two years before appearing as a regular on "In Melbourne Tonight" for three years as singer, dancer and choreographer. She subsequently appeared in various Australian TV series including Barley Charlie, No. 96, G.P., Home and Away and All Saints. Adapted from Wikipedia and trove.gov.au
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A Moody Christmas
Character: Gwen Dawes
Focused on the lovable, yet seasonally dysfunctional Moody family, A Moody Christmas is set against the backdrop of the one occasion that can bring out the best (and the worst) in people … Christmas Day....
The Flying Doctors
Character: Dot Collins
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, p...
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Protection
Character: Witchy
Made collaboratively with children from public housing areas in the Illawarra on the south coast of New South Wales, Protection uses a unique blend of film and animation to tell stories about childhood - inspired by the lives and experiences of the film's adventurous and often hilarious young cast....
Dot and the Kangaroo
Character: (voice)
An Australian girl gets lost in the Outback, but she's befriended by a kangaroo who gives her a ride in her pouch as they search for the girl's home. Aiding the pair are musically gifted koalas, platypuses, and kookaburras in this film based on Ethel Pedley's 1899 children's book, with animated humans and animals superimposed upon a live-action background....