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A Place To Call Home (season 3)
The third season of the Seven Network television series '' A Place to Call Home'' premiered on SoHo on 27 September 2015 and concluded on 29 November 2015. The series is produced by Chris Martin-Jones, and executive produced by Penny Win and Julie McGauran. Production Helen Vnuk from ''TV Week'' confirmed that a third season had been commissioned in May 2014. However, one month later, the magazine reported that Channel Seven had passed on the option to renew the series and had recently told the cast and crew they would not be required for a third season. On 15 October 2014, it was announced that Foxtel had finalised a deal with Channel Seven that would see third and fourth seasons written, using the outlines created by Bevan Lee, produced by Seven Productions, but aired on Foxtel. On 25 October 2014, Amy Harris of ''The Daily Telegraph'' announced that ''A Place to Call Home'' had been officially renewed for another two seasons and would return in late 2015, airing on Foxtel c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SoHo (Australian TV Channel)
SoHo was an Australian pay television channel. Originally launched as FX in 1995 and oriented towards classic programming, it was rebranded as W. and shifted its focus to women's programming on 1 November 2003. Later, on 20 August 2012, it was again rebranded as SoHo and shifted its focus to drama television series. The channel closed down on 4 October 2016, and was replaced by Binge. History In 1995, FX, then stylised as fX, was launched in Australia on Foxtel, featuring classic TV series (often branded as "Golden Years of Television"). In late 1998 fX became FX, which at the time was a channel aimed at women, unlike the international FX channels demographic, featuring shows such as The View and Donny and Marie. The channel became available on Austar in April 1999. In late 2000, FX was again rebranded, officially becoming "Australia's first TV channel for women". It was relaunched as W. on 1 November 2003, shortly before digital broadcasting began. W screened origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Climo
Brett Leonard Climo (born 26 September 1964) is an Australian actor and comedian best known for his television soap opera roles, but has also appeared in films (feature-length and made-for-TV features). He is best known roles include in productions: '' Sons and Daughters'', ''A Country Practice'', ''The Flying Doctors'' and '' A Place to Call Home'' and the movie ''Archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...''. Filmography Film Television External links * Brett Climo interview 21st-century Australian male actors Australian male television actors 1964 births Living people 20th-century Australian male actors {{Australia-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Coleby
Robert Coleby (born 1947) is a British actor who has spent most of his career in Australia. Active since the 1970s, he has over 70 film and television credits to his name. Coleby has acted on stage in numerous productions for the Queensland Theatre Company in Brisbane. Early life In his late teens, Robert lived in Edington, Somerset and went to Dr Morgan's School in Bridgwater. At that time he was influenced by the beat generation, novelist Jack Kerouac and singer/songwriter Bob Dylan and performed with acoustic guitar at folk music clubs in Bridgwater and Taunton. He enjoyed hitch-hiking in Europe during the school holidays, and worked in the peat fields near Shapwick to fund his travels. Early career Coleby's real name is Robert Taylor. Since there was already a famous actor of that name, Equity rules required that he choose another. Coleby's earliest screen role was in 1970, playing the role of Fortinbras in a TV version of ''Hamlet'' in the long-running US series Hallmark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Draxl
Tim Draxl (born 8 October 1981) is an Australian actor and singer, known for his role as Doctor Henry Fox in A Place to Call Home (TV series), ''A Place to Call Home''. Early life Draxl was born in Sydney and grew up in Jindabyne, New South Wales, Jindabyne where his family was in the ski industry. He also spent winters in Austria. He attended high school at the McDonald College of Performing Arts. Draxl is openly gay. Career Draxl's film roles include ''Swimming Upstream'' (2003), ''In My Sleep'' (2010) and ''A Few Best Men'' (2011). He was nominated for a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor in 2004 for the ABC miniseries ''The Shark Net''. Other television roles include in ''Supernova (British TV series), Supernova'', Tangle (TV series), ''Tangle'', Serangoon Road (TV series), ''Serangoon Road'', ''Mrs Biggs'', ''Molly (miniseries), Molly'' and ''A Place to Call Home''. Draxl has been referred to as "easily our [Australia's] best cabaret artist" His performance ''Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Winspear
Ben Winspear is an Australian actor and director. He won a 2009 Helmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play having previously been nominated for the same category in 2003. For his performance in the TV series '' My Place'' he was nominated for the 2010 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama. Screen roles he has played includes the TV series '' A Place to Call Home''. and '' Underbelly: Badness'' and films ''The Babadook'' and '' Bad Girl''. He also appears in ''Bay of Fires'' which was co-produced by Archipelago Productions, a company he co-founded with his wife Marta Dusseldorp. Winspear has a long theatre career including ''Baghdad Wedding'' for Company B, for which he won the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play, and ''Great Expectations'' at the Drama Theatre (Sydney Opera House), for which he was nominated for the same award. He appeared with Marta Dusseldorp in Joanna Murray-Smith's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Lee (Australian Actor)
Mark Lee (born 1958) is an Australian theatre and film actor and director, and singer. He played the lead role in the 1981 film '' Gallipoli'', alongside Mel Gibson.Michael Ferguson and Michael S. Ferguson Since then, Lee has worked extensively in Australian film, television and theatre. Career He originally worked as a model and coffee house singer. His film debut was in 1969 in the film ''Strange Holiday'' (based on the novel by Jules Verne). After his success in ''Gallipoli'' (1981) he spent some time as a musician, playing and singing as front man in popular Sydney bands like One Way Ticket and The Idle Poor, performed in company with his Conservatorium-trained, violin-playing younger brother, David. Lee also spent some years acting in, and frequently simultaneously directing, amateur plays. He starred in the 1987 Australian television drama ''Vietnam'' (one of Nicole Kidman's early roles) and the 1988 gay cult film '' The Everlasting Secret Family''. He also starred as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenna Harding
Brenna Harding (born May 19, 1996) is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Sue Knight in the television series ''Puberty Blues,'' and her role in " Arkangel", an episode in the anthology series ''Black Mirror''. Career Harding's first television appearance was in 2004, appearing in a clip for '' Play School''s "Through the Window" segment. The clip showed Harding and her two mothers on a trip to an amusement park, and attracted controversy from the media and politicians for showing homosexual parents. Harding began performing in the late 2000s through holiday drama courses, then moved on to television roles with an appearance in '' My Place'' and a three-episode run in season 3 of ''Packed to the Rafters''. Her first major television role was as Sue Knight in ''Puberty Blues'', one of the two teenage girls who were the main characters of the 1979 novel of the same name. Harding's role in the series led to her receiving the 2013 Logie Award for Most Popular New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Kennedy
:''This is an article about the actress. For the American eco artist and author, see Deborah Kennedy (artist)''. Deborah Kennedy is an Australian character actress recognised for several television and film roles, especially for her appearance in the famous Australian Yellow Pages advertisement with the line "Not happy, Jan!". Career Kennedy began her acting career on the stage, with the Marian Street Theatre, Killara, appearing in ''The Trojan Woman'' and ''Macbeth''. She followed this with work with several other theatrical organisations including SUDS, Repertory 200, the New Theatre, and the Pegeant Theatre. For the Nimrod theatre starting in 1975 she had several roles in plays, acting in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' and ''Richard III''. Other theatre work includes ''Travelling North'', ''House of the Deaf Man'', ''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'', ''Desert Flambe''. Starting in the 1970s she also acted in various television roles, with appearances in '' Certain Women'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie J
Francisco Javier Bautista Jr. (born December 7, 1975), better known by his stage name Frankie J, is a Mexican-American singer and former member of the musical group Kumbia Kings. Born in Mexico, he grew up in San Diego and became a freestyle artist under the stage name Frankie Boy in the late 1990s. He then joined Kumbia Kings before re-embarking on a solo career. Frankie J's solo debut album, '' What's a Man to Do'', was released in 2003, followed by more English and Spanish language albums. He received a Grammy Award nomination for his album '' Faith, Hope y Amor'' in 2013 for Best Latin Pop Album. Early life Bautista was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and raised in San Diego, California, from the age of two, after his uncle brought him and his siblings to the United States. He grew up listening to both traditional Latin music as well as American urban music. He attended Southwest Senior High School in San Diego. He later began to develop more interest in singing, with the encour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenni Baird
Jenni Baird (born 29 April 1976) is an Australian actress. Baird was educated at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts from which she graduated in 1999. Upon graduation Baird appeared in the Australian short film ''I Promise''. Baird has since appeared in several high-profile television series that have been broadcast nationwide in Australia with roles in '' All Saints'', '' A Place to Call Home'' and ''The 4400'', and in Australian movies '' Alien Trespass'' and '' Backtrack''. Following her debut role in ''I Promise'' Baird then appeared in several low key television roles and made her first prominent nationwide TV role on the long running multi award-winning drama series ''All Saints'' as Paula Morgan, making her first appearance in the episode "A Little Death" on 6 November 2001. Baird then made her final appearance in 2004 on 27 April. Whilst on the show Morgan's storylines included her being a nurse at the hospital where the show is based, getting engaged, being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Wiseman
Sara Wiseman is a New Zealand actress, best known for her roles in the television series '' Mercy Peak'' as Dr. Nicky Somerville, '’ A Place to Call Home'' as Carolyn Bligh and ''The Cult'' as Annabelle Willis. Beginning her career with low-profile TV roles in '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' (1996 and 1999), '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' (1995) and ''Jackson's Wharf'' (2000). Wiseman made her first high-profile television appearance in the drama series ''Street Legal'' as Louise Jarvis in 2000, before in 2001 getting the role of Dr. Nicky Sommerville in the New Zealand TV series '' Mercy Peak''. For her role in the show, Wiseman garnered several nominations at the New Zealand Film and Television Awards under the category "Best Actress" during 2002 and 2003 respectively, alongside these accolades in 2005 Wiseman was nominated for the "Television - Best Performance By an Actress" award at the New Zealand Screen Award. Wiseman starred in ''Mercy Peak'' until 2002, when she l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood (born 24 July 1987) is an Australian actress and producer. Early life Arianwen lived in the small rural area of Black Mountain in the New England Region of New South Wales. She attended Newling Public School and Duval High School in Armidale. Career After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, in 2008, Parkes-Lockwood played Abigail in ''The Crucible'' for the Sydney Theatre Company. She appeared as Dolly Green in the 2011 television series '' Underbelly: Razor''; then in ''Tough Nuts'' (2011) and a BBC docudrama '' The Kangaroo Gang: Thieves by Appointment'' (2011). She was a winner of the 2011 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for acting and filmmaking. In 2013, she was cast as Olivia Bligh in the Seven Network's 1950s period drama '' A Place to Call Home''. In 2015 she appeared as Harriet Edwards in ABC Television's ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries''. In 2019, she appeared naked in a video for PETA's anti-wool cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
