The Secret Daughter
''The Secret Daughter'' is an Australian television drama series which premiered on the Seven Network on 3 October 2016. The series is written by Justin Monjo, Greg Haddrick, Louise Bowes and Keith Thompson and directed by Leah Purcell, Geoff Bennett and Paul Moloney. The drama centres on part-time country pub singer Billie Carter (Jessica Mauboy), who has a chance meeting with a wealthy city hotelier and discovers information about her family and history. The second season premiered on 8 November 2017. On 17 December 2017, it was announced that ''The Secret Daughter'' would not return for a third season in 2018. Production The series received a total of A$171,750 in funding from Screen NSW. Filming on the series took place in Sydney and regional New South Wales and wrapped in June 2016. The Seven Network announced in 2016 that the series had been renewed and a second season would screen in 2017. Production began in May 2017 with James Sweeny and Rachael Maza joining the ca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Drama (film And Television)
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Colin Friels
Colin Friels (born 25 September 1952) is an Australian actor of theatre, TV, film and presenter. Early life Friels was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland.Interview with Colin Friels, ''George Negus Tonight'' (ABC Television), 26 August 2004. http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/profiles/Transcripts/s1186644.htm , retrieved May 2007. His mother was a mill worker and French polisher, and his father a carpenter. He lived in Kilbirnie until 1963, when his family moved to Australia, arriving in Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory before settling in the Melbourne suburb of Bentleigh, Victoria, Bentleigh. He worked as a bricklayer's labourer before studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating in 1976 along with Linden Wilkinson and Michael Siberry. Career Friels career began with work mostly in theatre and television. In 1980, Friels was a presenter on the Australian version of ''Play School (Australian TV series), Play School'', the series for you ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sony Music Australia
Sony Music Entertainment Australia is the predominant record label operated by American parent company Sony Music Entertainment in Australia. Prior to 1995, SMEA published and distributed video games in Australia & New Zealand on behalf of Sony Imagesoft and Sony Electronic Publishing Europe, and briefly operated Sony's PlayStation business in Australia & New Zealand on behalf of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. Sony Music Entertainment Australia as of July 2017 also runs British multimedia Ministry of Sound Recordings' Australian operations on behalf of Sony Music UK, taking over from recently renamed TMRW Music, formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Ministry of Sound until 2004. Current artists The follow is a list of artists current signed to Sony Music Australia: * AC/DC AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973. Their music has been variously described as hard rock, blues rock and Heavy metal music, heavy metal, although the band calls it ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Songs From The Original TV Series
A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure, such as the common ABA form, and are usually made of sections that are repeated or performed with variation later. A song without instruments is said to be a cappella. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in the classical tradition, it is called an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally by ear are often referred to as folk songs. Songs composed for the mass market, designed to be sung by professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows, are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are oft ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Beckley
Michael Beckley is an Australian actor. He has worked with major theatre companies in both Australia and the United Kingdom, appearing on London's West End in ''A Few Good Men'' (starring Rob Lowe) and ''Cabaret''. He is best known for playing Rhys Sutherland in Australian television series ''Home and Away'' from 2000 to 2004. Early life Beckley decided on an acting career just before completing his senior high school studies. Despite protests from teachers he left school one week before his final exams. A week later – at 17 years of age – he had landed a permanent position on the Entertainment Staff at Old Sydney Town, an historical theme park near his home town of Gosford, NSW. Here he earned his Actors Equity of Australia card and officially became a working actor. Career Acting Beckley made his first permanent move to the UK in 1984. He appeared on the London Fringe in '' All The Way Home'' and attended dozens of plays in and around London, including many on the W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mercia Deane-Johns
Mercia Deane-Johns is an Australian actress of film, stage and television. She is also a writer, singer, and stand-up comedian. She has played a wide array of characters since she was 12 years old and has appeared in many film roles and TV series on Australian screens. Education Born in Melbourne on 21 February 1958, Mercia Deane-Johns trained at a television and film course with Crawford Productions, in 1974. She has studied ballet at the Gertrud Bodenwieser Dance Centre, in Sydney. Deane-Johns obtained a diploma in classical singing and theory of music from the London College of Music, Ealing, London in 1975. She is also an Associate of the London College of Music (A.L.C.M). She was on a twelve-month contract at the Melbourne Theatre Company in 1978. She has studied Tai chi and had private lessons with the late Tennyson Yui for one year, in 1980. Deane-Johns attended Southern Cross University from 2006 to 2010 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in writing and communication. S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Batchelor (actor)
John David Batchelor (born 25 September 1969) is a Singaporean-born Australian television and film actor. He is most known for portraying Chief Petty Officer Marine Technical (CPOMT) / Chief Engineer Andy 'Charge' Thorpe on the Australian drama series ''Sea Patrol'', and Peeto in the Australian feature film '' Red Dog''. Early life Batchelor was born in Singapore to Australian parents. He nearly died from a bacterial infection at age 3. After passing out from a cardiac arrest in the emergency room in Melbourne Children's Hospital, he was revived with CPR and it took him 3 months to recover. As a child, Batchelor and his family moved around frequently, as his father was a high-ranking officer in the Australian army. When he turned 7, he moved to Brisbane Australia where he spent most of his childhood. He acted in many plays there including '' And a Nightingale Sang'', '' Jacques and his Master'', '' Bouncers'', ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', ''Macbeth'', ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Erin Holland
Erin Victoria Holland (born 21 March 1989) is an Australian singer, TV host, model, dancer, charity worker and beauty pageant titleholder. She won her national title, Miss World Australia, on 20 July 2013. She has also featured as a sports presenter at the Pakistan Super League in seasons 4, 5, 7, and 8, 9 and currently 10 covering the matches on ground as well as post-match ceremonies. She is married to Australian cricketer Ben Cutting. Early life Holland was born in Cairns, Far North Queensland to parents Trish and Mark Holland. Her love of music began from 3 years of age, when her father taught her how to play the recorder. Since this early introduction, she trained as a classical, musical theatre and jazz singer, played the clarinet and saxophone and studied musical theory, with the dream of one day starring as a leading lady on Broadway. Holland trained in jazz and tap dancing from the age of 4, receiving honours in Advanced R.A.D Examinations. Throughout her schooli ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ryan O'Kane
Ryan O'Kane (born ) is a New Zealand actor. His roles include Rhys Levitt in the Australian police drama '' City Homicide'', Prince Frederik in the telemovie '' Mary: The Making of a Princess'', and Riley Hawkins in ''Home and Away''. In 2018 and 2019, O'Kane portrayed Dylan Reinhart and his twin brother Daniel Reinhart in ''Shortland Street''. Early life O'Kane was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. In 2000, he began attending the University of Otago, where he studied a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Psychology. O'Kane intended to study medicine, but upon realising he wanted to become an actor, he attended New Zealand Drama School, studying Performance Art. Career O'Kane's first role saw him play a criminal in '' The Insider's Guide To Love''. He won Best Actor in a TV Drama at the 2006 Qantas Television Awards for his performance. He went on to portray a police officer in a production of '' The Hothouse'', before joining the cast of Australian drama '' City Homicide'' as Detec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amanda Muggleton
Amanda Lillian Muggleton (born 12 October 1951) is an English Australian theatre, television and film actress. She is best known for her supporting television role in soap opera ''Prisoner'' as Chrissie Latham, with appearances between 1979 and 1983. Her stage work in Australia includes the title roles in both ''Shirley Valentine'' and ''Educating Rita'', and as Maria Callas in ''Master Class'', for which she won the 2002 Helpmann Award for Best Actress in a Play. She won a second Helpmann Award in 2005, for her role as Mercedes Cortez in the musical '' Eureka!''. Early life and education Amanda Lillian Muggleton was born on 12 October 1951 in Stepney, London, England,"Muggleton, Amanda, 1951-" '' [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Terry Serio
Terry Serio is an Australian actor, director, musician and singer-songwriter. Career Film and television Serio's breakout role was as the lead, Mike in the 1982 Australian culture action film '' Running on Empty'', alongside Max Cullen and Penne Hackforth-Jones. Early roles in the film ''With Prejudice'' (1983) and TV films '' High Country'' (1983) and '' Rooted'' (1985) followed. In 1986 he played the lead in biographical miniseries '' Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe'' (for which he received AFI nomination for Best Actor) and in 1987 he played Franco in miniseries '' Fields of Fire''. Numerous guest roles in television series followed, including ''Rafferty's Rules'', ''The Flying Doctors'', ''A Country Practice'', '' Chances'', '' Phoenix'' and ''Police Rescue''. In 1995, he played the recurring role of Captain Sam Phillips in thirteen episodes of ''Ocean Girl'', before taking on further guest roles in ''Heartbreak High'', '' G.P.'', ''Flipper'', '' Fallen Angels'', '' W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Boxer (Australian Actor)
John "Johnny" Boxer is an Australian television and film actor and commercial voice-over best known for his role as Bobo Gigliotti in ''Pizza''. Early life He grew up in Campsie, New South Wales and attended Belmore Boys High School, where he excelled in his studies as well as in athletics, cross-country, and water polo. Career Boxer worked as a brick layer at Bondi Pavilion before being spotted by casting agents at an Eastern Suburbs pub in the ‘80s. He has appeared in '' E Street'', ''Pizza'', ''Fat Pizza'', ''Water Rats'', ''Home and Away'', and ''FINK!'' and has done voice-overs for various commercials, including for the Australian Cricket Team. He recently finished filming Smooth Criminal featuring fellow Australian actor Michael Bray. Works Filmography 2014 Son Of A Gun Television *'' Water Rats'' (as Bouncer, S01E04 & as Commando #1, S04E20) (1996, 1999) *''Pizza'' (as Bobo Gigliotti) (2000–2007) *''The Potato Factory'' (as Hobart Trooper) (2000) *''Home and Away'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |