Deidre Rubenstein

Deidre Rubenstein (born 1948) is a Jewish-Australian screen and theatre actress, dramatist and playwright, well known for her performance in Australian soap operas and main stage dramatic roles.

Early life

Rubenstein graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1967.

Career

Television and film

Rubenstein has worked in television comedies, drama, mini-series and TV movies. In 1970 she appeared in an episode of ''Homicide''. She played a recurring guest role in ''Prisoner'' (1979–80), as terrorist Janet Dominguez.

She had leading roles in 1990 film '' Breaking Through'' and 1985 miniseries '' Palace of Dreams'', the latter for which she won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress.

In 2004 Rubenstein played the scheming Svetlanka Ristic for twelve episodes of the soap opera ''Neighbours''.

She has appeared in further guest roles in 1980 miniseries '' Water Under The Bridge'', medical dramas '' G.P.'' and '' MDA'', '' Mercury'', comedy series '' Introducing Gary Petty'', '' The Secret Life of Us'', ''Kick'' and police dramas ''Blue Heelers'' and '' City Homicide''.

Rubenstein also has appeared in Australian feature films '' Siam Sunset'' (1999), '' Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueberger'' alongside Keisha Castle-Hughes and Essie Davis (2008), ''Salvation'' with Wendy Hughes (2008) and ''Force of Destiny'' alongside David Wenham (2015).

Theatre

Rubenstein's career in the theatre includes work with several major Australian companies, including the Nimrod Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company.

In 1993, she had a solo show called ''What's a Girl to Do?'', where she performed poems written by contemporary Australian female poets. It was later performed by Rubenstein at The Stables Theatre in Sydney (1994) and at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival.Rubenstein (1998). p.iv

This show inspired her to do another solo show using work commissioned for her, work that was written to be performed live. She was awarded a Victorian Government Women Artist's Grant and commission contemporary writers to produce the performance pieces that were later produced in a book called ''Confidentially Yours''. The first performance was in the Playbox Theatre Centre, C.U.B Malthouse, Melbourne on 11 February 1998. The writers commissioned to produce the work that became '' Confidentially Yours'' were Janis Balodis, Andrew Bovell, Nick Enright, Michael Gurr, Daniel Keene, Joanna Murray-Smith and Debra Oswald. Andrew Bovell wrote a pair of stories for the show that he later used in the script for the film ''Lantana''.

In 2005, Rubenstein performed in '' Menopause the Musical'', a comedy breaking down the taboos about menopause. with Caroline Gillmer, Susan-Ann Walker and Jane Clifton. Rubenstein as 'The Dubbo Housewife', explored the stereotypes and madness of that time in a woman's life.

In 2015, she played Gertrude Stein in the musical ''Loving Repeating - a Musical of Gertrude Stein'' in Melbourne.

Audiobooks

Rubenstein has produced a significant body of work as a narrator of audio books and has won several awards in this field.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

As actor

As crew

https://ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/2703

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

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References

External links

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doollee.com – Playwrights


Nimrod Theatre (Retrieved 8 August 2007)

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1948 births
Living people
AACTA Award winners
Australian dramatists and playwrights
Australian film actresses
Australian soap opera actresses
Australian stage actresses
Jewish Australian actresses
20th-century Australian actresses
21st-century Australian actresses