Robyn Nevin
Birthday: Born in 1942-09-25 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Deathday: Alive
Robyn Nevin (born September 25, 1942) is an Australian actress, director, and stage producer, recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. She is also known for her roles in films and televisions series. Nevin entered the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) at the age of 16 in the very first intake in 1959 was a brave step, in which she was fully supported by her parents. Nevin is currently lives with her long-time partner, US-born actor and screenwriter Nicholas Hammond since 1987.
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The End
Character: Dawn
Three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count....
Doctor Doctor
Character: Dinah
The story of Hugh Knight, a rising heart surgeon who is gifted, charming and infallible. He is a hedonist who, due to his sheer talent, believes he can live outside the rules. His "work hard, play harder" philosophy is about to come back and bite him....
The Moth Effect
Character: M (Voice)
A satirical six-part sketch comedy....
Upper Middle Bogan
Character: Margaret Denyar
Follow the stories of two families living at opposite ends of the freeway. Bess Denyar is a doctor with a posh mother, Margaret, an architect husband, Danny Bright, and twin 13-year-olds at a private school, Oscar and Edwina. When Bess finds out that she is adopted, she is stunned, but even more so when she meets her birth parents, Wayne and Julie Wheeler. She also discovers that she has three siblings: Amber, Kayne and Brianna. The bogan Wheelers head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs ...
Top of the Lake
Character: Jude Griffin
A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases....
Cleverman
Character:
In the near future, creatures from ancient Aboriginal mythology endowed with extraordinary physical traits have emerged and must coexist with humans. Known as 'Hairypeople' they battle for survival in a world that wants to exploit and destroy them. One young man – The Cleverman – struggles with his own power and the responsibility to unite this divided world, but he must first overcome a deep estrangement from his older brother....
Back in Very Small Business
Character: Celeste Di Nono
Don Angel, a trumped-up small businessman seeks validation through his small business kingdom, but finds unexpected solace from his odd squad of employees....
The Sullivans
Character: Rachael Dawson
The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand....
God's Favorite Idiot
Character: Helen
Clark Thompson, a midlevel tech-support employee, finds love with co-worker Amily Luck at exactly the same time he becomes the unwitting messenger of God. Also, there's rollerskating, a lake of fire and an impending apocalypse....
Father, Dear Father
Character: Mrs. Webster
The hugely successful British television series Father Dear Father is transplanted to Australia when novelist Patrick Glover and his assistant Nanny trek down under to write the great Australian crime novel, and end up supervising Patricks boisterous young nieces while their own father is abroad....
Water Under the Bridge
Character: Shasta
Water Under the Bridge is a 1980 mini series based on the 1977 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott....
The Dismissal
Character: Lady Kerr
The sensational dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor Government by the Queens representative in Australia, the Governor General, Sir John Kerr on November 11, 1975....
Halifax f.p.
Character: Angela Halifax
Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne. The producers of the film were Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier; Australian Film Finance Corporation and aired on the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd 21 Episodes of 90 and 102 minutes each were produced, and the series has s...
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The Matrix Reloaded
Character: Councillor Dillard
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and woul...
Sting
Character: Gunter
After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family's survival....
Caddie
Character: Black Eye
Proud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her own after her husband walks out on her....
The Castle
Character: Federal Court judge
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....
Bad Eggs
Character: Eleanor Poulgrain
Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption in the police force....
The Matrix Revolutions
Character: Councillor Dillard
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith....
Emerald City
Character: Kate Rogers
A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on its film and publishing industries. The story centers around the Rogers family, loosely modelled on Williamson's own....
The Turning
Character: Carol Lang
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever....
The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race
Character: Joan
Penny returns to her childhood home for the Appleton Show and its 'world famous' potato race, she is outraged that the men's first prize pays out $2,000 and the winning woman's prize is only $200. She is determined to right this wrong....
Goodbye Paradise
Character: Kate
The plot centres on Queensland's Gold Coast in the early 1980s, when a disgraced former cop, Michael Stacey writes a book exposing police corruption, does an investigation resulting in 2 murders, exposes a religious cult and watches the army begin a military coup....
The Irishman
Character: Jenny Doolan
Paddy Doolan is a man who refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are done, the stubborn Irishman, the last of the draught-horse teamsters, continues to haul timber the old way....
The Fourth Wish
Character: Connie
The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal....
Fighting Back
Character: Mary
Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers....
Greenkeeping
Character: Mum
An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club...
Lucky Break
Character: Anne-Marie LePine
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship....
Libido
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Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s....
Careful, He Might Hear You
Character: Lila
Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy sister, Vanessa, returns from England and takes an interest in PS....
The Eye of the Storm
Character: Lal Wyburd
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....
Death in Bloom
Character: Mrs. Patterson
Death In Bloom is a dark comedy about a Door-to-Door 'Death' Salesman, who struggles to close a deal with a fabulously difficult customer....
Gods of Egypt
Character: Sharifa
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt....
lacerate
Character: Jeanne
Gloria, an aspiring painter, drives on an empty tank. Hands steadfast at the wheel, refusing to fill up, she tempts fate. Colliding with unspoken grievances she tries to reframe herself amongst the missing paintings in her mother's home....
For Love or Money
Character: Herself
Using almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year period....
Relic
Character: Edna
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence....
The Dismissal
Character: Lady Kerr
The drama surrounding the dismissal of Mr. Gough Whitlam as the Labor Prime Minister of Australia - on 11 November, 1975 - by the then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr - and the subsequent installation, in Parliament, of the Liberal 'caretaker government' and Mr. Malcolm Fraser as the 'caretaker' Prime Minister....
Angel Baby
Character: Dr. Norberg
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere......
Groundhog Night
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Gary’s so used to caring for his disabled daughter Jess, he can do it in his sleep. But when the in-laws come to stay, everyone will get a wake-up call. ...
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Character: Mrs. McCready
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner....
The Coolangatta Gold
Character: Robyn Lucas
Steve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to live in his brother's shadow. His brother Adam, is burdened by his father's desire for glory, and must win The Coolangatta Gold Tri-Aquathon, It is the greatest endurance test of them all: a marathon involving a 20 kilometer beach run, 6 kilometer swim and a 17 kilometer surf ski from Surfers Paradise along the golden arc of beach to Coolangatta and back to the start. The Coolangatta Gold is a story o...
In the Company of Actors
Character: Self
Within the world of theatre the rehearsal room is a sacred space -- the private domain where boundaries are pushed, risks taken, mistakes made, vulnerabilities exposed and, at its very best, magic created. It's not a place into which the public is often, if ever, invited. Until now; In The Company of Actors features an ensemble of Australia's finest actors, including Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving, as they prepare to perform the Sydney Theatre Company's production of Hedda Gabler, at the presti...
Ruben Guthrie
Character: Susan Guthrie
The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down....
Resistance
Character: Wiley
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement....