Lynette Curran is an Australian actress known for many roles in Australian television series and films, including the soap opera '' Bellbird'', and the films '' Country Town'' (1971) and ''

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'' (1985).

Career

Theatre

She started acting in the theatre in 1964. Theatre work includes ''

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'', '' Rookery Nook'', ''

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'', ''Just Between Ourselves'', and ''Ashes'' for the

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. She also played in ''

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'' for the Seymour Centre in

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Film and television

Curran was a cast member of soap opera '' Bellbird'' when it started in 1967. She left the series permanently in 1974; at the time she left she was the program's last remaining original cast member. Curran acted in the film version of the serial '' Country Town'' (1971). She made several other film appearances in the 1970s, with roles in sex comedy '' Alvin Purple'' (1973), and in dramas '' I'm Here, Darlings!'' (1975), ''

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'' (1976). Late 1970s television appearances include soap opera '' Number 96'' (in 1976), and

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s '' Bluey'' and '' Cop Shop''. Curran was a recurring cast member of soap opera '' The Restless Years'' (1977–1981), playing the scheming Jean Stafford. She won a Sammy Award for her role in

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series ''

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''. She co-starred with Barry Otto in the acclaimed 1985

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of Peter Carey's award-winning novel ''

''. Other roles include feature films '' Heatwave'' (1982), '' The Delinquents'' (1989), '' The Boys'' (1998), '' Japanese Story'' (2003), ''

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'' (2004), '' These Final Hours'' (2013), ''A Few Less Men'' (2017) and '' Brothers' Nest'' (2018). For her appearance in ''

'' she won the 2004 AACTA award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. On television she played Brenda Jackson in the '' Love My Way'', and acted in '' Underbelly: The Golden Mile'' and '' Cleverman''. She was in '' Wentworth'' as Vera Bennett's elderly, terminally-ill mother (2015). Curran appears in Season 2 of ''

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'' (2022).

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

Personal life

Curran was married when she was 19, but the marriage was short-lived. She has had two substantial relationships since then, but bore no children. She lives alone in Sydney. A sexual assault and incest survivor, Curran is estranged from her family. Curran has

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heritage, as she discovered two of her great-grandmothers were Aboriginal. She dabbles as a medium, which she got into after foreseeing the death of a friend in a car accident. She first had premonitions as a child. She offers readings at Sydney markets, using tarot cards, numerology and astrology. Curran is often mistaken for good friend and fellow Australian actress

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, whom she has previously worked with, most notably in the 2008

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production of ''Derrida In Love''.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Curran, Lynette Australian film actresses Australian television actresses Living people 1945 births Australian stage actresses Best Supporting Actress AACTA Award winners 20th-century Australian actresses 21st-century Australian actresses