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Packed To The Rafters (season 2)
The second season of ''Packed to the Rafters'', an Australian drama television series, began airing on 30 June 2009 on the Seven Network. The season concluded on 24 November 2009 after 22 episodes. The second season aired Tuesdays at 8:30 pm in Australia and averaged 1,881,000 viewers. The season was released on DVD as a six disc set under the title of ''Packed to the Rafters: The Complete Season 2'' on 3 November 2010. The second season follows Julie and Dave Rafter through comic highs and soul-searching lows as they prepare for the unplanned but no-less welcome addition to their family of their new baby. We also explore the heart warming arrival into the Rafters world of Dave's birth mother Chel, opening in the process the door to further family revelations. We follow the tumultuous upheavals in the lives of all three Rafter children. Rachel embarks on a promising if-at-first feisty relationship with the cute young electrician who's begun working with her dad. Ben continues hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
Seven Network (stylised 7Network, and commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is an Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of the five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it was the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programming—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2024, Seven Network is the highest-rated television network nationally, in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Brazier
Caroline Brazier is an Australian actress who is best known for the role of Chrissy Merchant in ''Packed to the Rafters'' and the starring roles of Veronica Johnson and her twin sister Betti in the children's television series ''Parallax''. Brazier has also had a number of roles in the theatre, films and other television series. Early life Originally from Perth, Western Australia, Brazier graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1998. As a child she briefly lived in Jakarta. Career Brazier has appeared in ''The Merchant of Venice'', ''Julius Caesar'' and ''Antony and Cleopatra'' for the Bell Shakespeare Company, ''Whale Music'' at Darlinghurst Theatre, and ''Speed-the-Plow'' for Perth Theatre Company. In 2012 she won Best Actress in a Leading Role in an Independent Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards for ''I Want to Sleep with Tom Stoppard''. She also played the Superintendent in ''Accidental Death of an Anarchist'' (2018) at Sydney Theatre and app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Jones
Gillian Jones (born 19 April 1947) is an Australian actress from Newcastle, New South Wales who is best known for appearances in ''Twelfth Night'', '' Oscar and Lucinda'', ''Last Train to Freo'' and the role of Di Paige in the television series '' Love My Way''. She had a recurring role on the Australian drama ''Packed to the Rafters'' since 2009. Filmography Film * 1982: '' Fighting Back'' as English teacher * 1982.5: '' Heatwave'' as Barbie Lee Taylor * 1986.62: '' I Own the Racecourse'' (TV film) as Mrs. Hoddel * 1987: ''Twelfth Night'' as Viola * 1988: '' Alterations'' (TV film) as Rachel * 1988: ''Shame'' as Tina Farrel * 1989: '' Echoes of Paradise'' as Mitty * 1989: '' Lover Boy'' as Sally * 1990: '' Come In Spinner'' (TV film) as Mrs. Malone * 1991: '' Breathing Under Water'' * 1994: '' Cody: A Family Affair'' (TV film) * 1996: '' What I Have Written'' as Frances Bourin / Catherine * 1997: '' Oscar and Lucinda'' as Elizabeth Leplastrier * 1998: ''Pentuphouse'' (short) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Virgil
Pedro Virgil (born 28 August 1973) is a Fiji born Australian photographer and Reality TV show personality, and engineer. He is best known in the Americas for his participation as a judge and photographer on the reality show '' Caribbean's Next Top Model'', a Guest Photographer on Australia's Next Top Model and Project Runway Australia seasons 1 & 2, and his photography is featured in many magazines covers and editorials including: '' Inside Sport'', ''Men's Health'', '' GQ'', ''Sports Illustrated'', ''Gay Times'', '' DNA Magazine'', '' FHM'', '' Details''. He has worked with a long list of corporate agencies and prestigious clientele both nationally and internationally. Career Pedro's work can be recognised on major billboards from high-profile brands such as Rolex, Sony, Adidas, Sony Ericsson, Van Heusen, underwear campaigns such as Calvin Klein, and hit television shows: '' Australia's Next Top Model'', ''Project Runway'' seasons I & II, '' Football Superstar'', '' Caribbea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bensley
Peter Bensley (born 6 February 1954, Warialda, New South Wales) is an Australian actor. Career Television One of Bensley's earliest roles was as Dennis Braithwaite on the Seven Network drama series '' Class of '74''. He also appeared in ABC Television children's show, ''Waterloo Street''. Bensley appeared in several Grundy Television soap operas including '' The Restless Years'' (1979); '' The Young Doctors'' as Dr. Mike Newman (from 1980 until the show finished in 1983); ''Prisoner'' as one of the three male prisoners, Matt Delaney (for 34 episodes in 1984); ''Neighbours'' (1986) as Tony Chapman; and ''Home and Away'' (1988 to 1990) as school teacher Andrew Foley. In 2009, he returned to ''Neighbours'' for a two-episode guest role as Dean Naughton. In 1992, Bensley appeared as Dr. John Austin in the Australian miniseries '' The New Adventures of Black Beauty''. In 1995, he appeared in the Australian/New Zealand co-production '' Mirror, Mirror'', as Andrew Teigan, father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Morrell (actor)
Geoff Morrell (born 19 February 1958) is an Australian actor. Early life Morrell was born in Fairfield in Western Sydney, where his father was a schoolteacher. The family moved to Wollongong when Morrell was nine. He finished high school without doing well, academically. He subsequently worked at the Port Kembla Steelworks, but decided to repeat year 12, and after applying himself second time around, topped the HSC. Morrell received a NSW Teacher's Scholarship and studied a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Wollongong. While studying, he made his stage debut as Algernon in ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. He was also President of the Student Representative Council. He graduated in 1979. Career Morrell began his career in theatre acting, becoming a founding member of the Theatre South organisation. In 1983, he briefly moved to England, featuring in a number of productions there. In 1985, he branched into film acting, with a minor role in a telemovie version of Osca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ria Vandervis
Ria Vandervis (born 5 July 1984) is a New Zealand actress. She is most known for her role as Harper Whitley in ''Shortland Street'' and Miratrix in ''Power Rangers Operation Overdrive''. Career From 2002 to 2006, Vandervis acted in multiple UNITEC theatre productions and short films. Between 2004 and 2006 Vandervis starred in various short films such as the ''Lovely Creature'', ''A Telling Time'', ''Tough Fortune Cookies'' and ''Billy for Lilly'' as Siren, Julia, Fran and Sarah respectively. In 2007, Vandervis played a supporting role as Cindy Cockburn in the film ''The Devil Dared Me To''. Vandervis also played Miratrix in the TV series ''Power Rangers Operation Overdrive''. In 2009 Vandervis played various television roles, starting in ''Packed to the Rafters'' as Layla Soubrani, ''The Cut'', ''Underbelly'' and '' Rescue: Special Ops''. In 2010, Vandervis played the regular role of Senior Constable Roxanne Perez in the Nine Network police drama '' Cops L.A.C.'' In 2013, Vand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig McLachlan
Craig Dougall McLachlan (born 1 September 1965) is an Australian actor, musician, singer and composer. He has been involved in film, television, the music industry and music theatre for over 30 years. He is best known for appearing in the soap operas ''Neighbours'' and ''Home and Away'' and the BBC One spy drama '' Bugs''. He has portrayed the title character in '' The Doctor Blake Mysteries'', for which he was nominated for the Logie Award for Most Popular Actor; he has previously won the award in this category three times. Career Television McLachlan moved to Sydney when he was around 16 to pursue an acting career. He secured a guest role on '' The Young Doctors'', as well as several television commercials. However, he soon moved back home and spent two years working as a labourer and a gym instructor. After returning to Sydney, he secured a guest role as a student in two episodes of '' Sons and Daughters''. He was cast as Henry Ramsay, brother of Kylie Minogue's character Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belinda Bromilow
Belinda Bromilow is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in the Nine Network series, '' Doctor Doctor'' (2016–21), and the Hulu/Disney+ series, '' The Great'' (2020–23). Education Bromilow studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Career Bromilow has appeared in a number of Australian television series, including ''Mcleod's Daughters'', ''Packed to the Rafters'', and ''Rake''. She played Jonquil Payne as a series regular on '' Spirited'' from 2010 to 2011. In 2016 Bromilow joined the main cast of '' Doctor Doctor'' as Betty Bell. She appeared in every episode of the series. In film, Bromilow has had roles in ''The Rage in Placid Lake'' and '' Not Suitable for Children''. Bromilow gained greater recognition outside of Australia through her role as Aunt Elizabeth in the Hulu/Disney+ series '' The Great''. She unsuccessfully auditioned for a part in the 2008 Sydney Theatre Company production of the original play upon which the ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Panozzo
Dina Panozzo (born 1966) is an Australian-born actress of Italian descent. Early life Panozzo's parents emigrated to Adelaide from northern Italy, on a ship called 'Queen Neptuna'. Her mother was 19 and a housewife, her father a labourer and later a carpenter. Growing up in Adelaide in the 1970s, Panozzo became passionate about Adelaide’s thriving amateur theatre scene, in particular, Adelaide Theatre Company. Career Panozzo is best known for her regular roles in the television series '' Carla Cametti PD'' and ''Bed of Roses''. She has also appeared in a recurring role in ''Packed to the Rafters'' and guest roles in many Australian series, including ''A Country Practice'', '' Water Rats,'' and ''White Collar Blue''. Panozzo also had regular roles in the short-lived comedy series ''Wedlocked'' and the soap opera '' Richmond Hill''. Featured film roles include '' Black & White & Sex'' and '' Fistful of Flies''. Her theatre roles include ''Popular Front'' ( Theatre Works, 1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Spartels
George Bernard Spartels (born 25 April 1954) is an Australian actor, presenter, director, playwright and children's musician of Greek descent on his father's ancestry, and English and Irish on his mother's. He remains best known for his role on the television soap opera ''Neighbours''. Career Spartels has guest starred in many Australian television series from the 1970s to the present, most notably, ''Prisoner'' and '' Bellbird'' and in ''Neighbours'' playing family patriarch Benito Alessi. He has also appeared in a number of episodes of medical drama series '' All Saints'' and serial ''Packed to the Rafters'' as Carbo's father. Other roles included '' Cop Shop'', ''Punishment'' and '' The Bluestone Boys'', as well as Blackfinger in the movie '' Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome'' in 1985, alongside Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. Spartels was also a children's television presenter, having had a long tenure on ABC's '' Play School'', over a period of 14 years between 1985 and 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Fitzpatrick
Kerry Kathleen Fitzpatrick (born 1 October 1947) known as Kate Fitzpatrick, is an Australian television, film, and theatre actress. Early years Kate grew up in the Adelaide suburb of Dover Gardens, and it was in Adelaide that her love for classical music, art and cricket developed. A highlight of her early years was being selected by Jeffrey Smart ("Phidias" of the '' Argonauts Club'') for a travelling art scholarship to Japan. At the age of 18 she was accepted as a drama student by NIDA and moved to Sydney. Career Theatre roles include ''The Lady of the Camellias'', ''Hamlet'', '' Celluloid Heroes'', ''The Ride Across Lake Constance'', ''Shadows of Blood'', '' Rooted'', '' Kennedy's Children''. With the Old Tote Theatre Company she acted in '' The Legend of King O'Malley'', '' The Season at Sarsaparilla'', ''The Misanthrope'', ''The Threepenny Opera'', and ''Big Toys'' by Patrick White, who wrote the play for Fitzpatrick. She acted in ''Visions'' for the Paris Theatre Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
