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Drovers (fictional Farm)
Drovers Run is a fictional cattle station in the South Australian outback in the Australian hit drama show ''McLeod's Daughters ''McLeod's Daughters'' is an Australian drama television series created by Posie Graeme-Evans and Caroline Stanton for the Nine Network, which aired from 8 August 2001, to 31 January 2009, lasting List of McLeod's Daughters episodes, eight seas ...''. The fictitious cattle station is named generically after a drover and has been in the McLeod family for generations. For generations it was passed on from father to son, but was passed on to the two daughters of Jack McLeod. Drovers Run was located 50 km from its neighbouring farm, Killarney (season 7 episode 2), where the Ryan family lives. Storyline Hardship and respect for the land are the key values at Drovers Run, a vast cattle and farming property in the Australian outback that once belonged to Jack McLeod. After his death, his two daughters, Claire and Tess McLeod, reunite to decide the prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McLeod's Daughters
''McLeod's Daughters'' is an Australian drama television series created by Posie Graeme-Evans and Caroline Stanton for the Nine Network, which aired from 8 August 2001, to 31 January 2009, lasting List of McLeod's Daughters episodes, eight seasons. It stars Lisa Chappell and Bridie Carter in the leading roles as two sisters reunited after twenty years of separation, thrust into a working relationship when they inherit their family's cattle station in South Australia. The series is produced by Millennium Television, in association with Nine Films and Television and Endemol Australia, Southern Star. Graeme-Evans, Kris Noble and Susan Bower served as the original executive producers. The series was originally conceived as a then-intended McLeod's Daughters (film), television film pilot, which broadcast on Nine Network in 1996. Despite its success, and becoming the highest-rated telemovie in Australian television history, a series was not picked up by the network until several years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Todd
Sonia Todd (born 1959; Adelaide) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her television roles as Sgt. Georgia Rattray in ''Police Rescue'', Meg Fountain in ''McLeod's Daughters'' and Gina Austin in the soap opera ''Home and Away''. Biography She studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and starred in the play ''Strictly Ballroom'', directed by Baz Luhrmann. She also played the waitress, Sylvia, in the film '' Shine'' directed by Scott Hicks, in the café scene where Geoffrey Rush plays '' Flight of the Bumblebee'' by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov to an understandably stunned audience. Todd is married to Rhett Walton and has two sons (born in 1992 and 2000), the first from a previous relationship. Todd became known from the role of 'Georgia Rattray' in the television series ''Police Rescue'', for which she won for an AFI Award in 1991. She was also nominated for an AFI Award for her role in the four-part mini-series '' The Potato Factory'' (2000). From 2001� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, Traditional Owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people. The area of the city centre and surrounding parklands is called ' in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the city was founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Alexy
Gillian Alexy (born March 13, 1986) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her roles as Tayler Geddes on ''McLeod's Daughters'', Gitta Novak on ''Damages'', and G'Winveer Farrell on ''Outsiders''. Early life Alexy graduated from the John Curtin College of the Arts in 2000, after doing specialist dance and theatre courses. Afterwards, she went to The Actors College in London, Le Centre des Arts Vivants and The Peter Goss Dance Studio in Paris, and earned a six-month theatre degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder (United States). Career Alexy began her acting career at the age of ten, making her debut in television series ''Bush Patrol''. The following year she appeared in her first leading television role, the children's series '' The Gift'', for which she played the part for the complete first and only season. Her second leading role was in the series ''Parallax'', another television series which was cancelled after just one season. She gained notability for he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Younane
Doris Younane (born 25 February 1963) is an Australian stage and screen actress notable for her role in '' McLeod's Daughters'' where she played Moira Doyle. She is of Lebanese descent. . The Advertiser. Retrieved 23 November 2008. Career Her roles include Titania in '''' andYola Fatoush
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Michala Banas
Michala Elizabeth Laurinda Banas (born 14 November 1978) is a New Zealand television actress and singer. Life and career Born in Wellington, New Zealand into a family of German descent, she starred in her first advert at only 18 months of age. Her debut film performance was when she was five years old, in the New Zealand film '' Dangerous Orphans''. Her Australian debut television performance was as Louisa in the miniseries '' Mirror, Mirror'' in 1995. From 2001-03, Banas played main character Marissa Taylor in the Seven Network drama '' Always Greener''. In 2002, she had a small role in the film adaptation '' Scooby-Doo''. Banas is an accomplished singer, and in 2003 released a single, " Kissin' The Wind", which made the top 30 on the Australian Recording Industry Association singles chart. In 2004, Banas joined the cast of '' McLeod's Daughters'' as the character Kate Manfredi, the best friend of Jodi Fountain McLeod. She played Kate from episodes 88 to 170, when she too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Napier
Jessica Napier (born 13 April 1979) is a New Zealand-born actress based in Australia. She has appeared in a number of feature films, including ''Love Serenade'', ''Blackrock'', '' Cut'', ''City Loop'', ''Angst'', ''The Illustrated Family Doctor'' and ''Ghost Rider'', and is well known for her role of Becky Howard in the Australian TV drama series ''McLeod's Daughters''. Early life Napier was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her father, actor Marshall Napier, relocated the family to Australia when she was a child. Career Jessica had her first taste for acting at age 9, when she played her father's daughter on the long-running Australian TV series ''Police Rescue''. A year later she reappeared in another episode, when Marshall nominated Jessica to fill in for a role when the girl who was originally booked to do the job refused because the character was required to be submerged in a swamp. It was not until Jessica was 15 that she decided to be an actress. On her first serious au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre. Darwin's proximity to Southeast Asia makes the city's location a key link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and East Timor. The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin, extends southerly across central Australia through Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, concluding in Port Augusta, South Australia. The city is built upon a low bluff overlooking Darwin Harbour. Darwin's suburbs begin at Lee Point in the north and stretch to Berrimah in the east. The Stuart Highway extends to Darwin's eastern satellite city of Palmerston and its suburbs. The Darwin region, like much of the Top End, experiences a tropical climate wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abi Tucker
Abigail Anne "Abi" Tucker (born 22 January 1973) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress. She has had roles in television series-telemovies in '' Heartbreak High'' (1994-1995), '' Water Rats'' (1999), '' Wildside'' (1999), '' The Secret Life of Us'' (2001-2003), ''My Husband, my Killer'' (2001), '' McLeod's Daughters'' (2007-2009), ''Giggle and Hoot'' (2010) ABC's ''Playschool'' (2006-2010); and in films ''The New Girlfriend'' (original title: Envy) (1996), ''Angst'' (2000) and '' The Wog Boy'' (2000). Her theatre credits include '' The Vagina Monologues'' (2000), ''Everything's F***ed'' workshop (2003), ''The Music and Lyrics of Sean Peter'' (2003), ''Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson'' (2005), ''Poor Boy – Music of Tim Finn'' (2010) and Bell Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' (2015). Career Abigail Anne Tucker came to public attention as a singer on the Australian program, New Faces in the early 1990s and in 1994 landed a role in the Australian TV series '' Heartbreak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drover (Australian)
A drover in Australia is a person, typically an experienced stockman, who moves livestock, usually sheep, cattle, and horses "on the hoof" over long distances. Reasons for droving may include: delivering animals to a new owner's property, taking animals to market, or moving animals during a drought in search of better feed and/or water or in search of a yard to work on the livestock. The drovers who covered very long distances to open up new country were known as " overlanders". Method Moving a small mob of quiet cattle is relatively easy, but moving several hundreds or thousands head of wild station cattle over long distances is a very different matter. Long-distance moving large mobs of stock was traditionally carried out by contract drovers. A drover had to be independent and tough, an excellent horseman, able to manage stock as well as men. The boss drover who had a plant (horses, dogs, cooking gear and other requisites) contracted to move the mob at a predetermined rate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoe Naylor
Zoe Naylor (born 4 July 1977) is an Australian actress, journalist and television presenter. Early life and education Naylor was born in Sydney, Australia to Richard Naylor, a veterinarian, and Neroli, an English and History teacher. She graduated from Loreto Normanhurst where she was School Captain while training with the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, then attended Charles Sturt University in Bathurst under a Seven Network scholarship. Naylor attended University of Technology in Sydney for a year to complete her Bachelor of Arts in Communications degree. Career She was an announcer for Groove FM, then worked in television for '' A Current Affair'', ''Escape with ET'', '' The Footy Show'', '' Gladiators'', '' MTV Australia'', '' National Nine News'' and '' SportsCafe'' (NZ). She has also written for magazines such as ''Australian Traveller'' and ''Road Rider''. After graduating from the Queensland University of Technology in 2002 with a Masters in Drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simmone Jade Mackinnon
Simone Jade Mackinnon (born 19 March 1973) is an Australian actress. She is best known for role as Allie Reese on ''Baywatch'' (1999–2000) and Stevie Hall on ''McLeod's Daughters'' (2003–2009). Early life Mackinnon was born in Mount Isa, Queensland in 1973 to Ian and Annette Mackinnon. She has a brother and a sister, Robbie and Kym. She and her family later moved to Coffs Harbour in New South Wales. Career Mackinnon began her acting career in 1988, appearing in the Australian feature film ''Something About Love''. Two further features followed, ''Dating the Enemy'' and ''Dust of the Wings'', where she appeared in small roles, although her role in ''Dust of the Wing'' was a larger part. In 1997, she began to appear on television. She had a guest appearance on the fantasy television series '' Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord'', a sequel to the original series '' Spellbinder''. Mackinnon is known for her role in the ''Baywatch'' spin-off series ''Baywatch: Hawaii'', where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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