Joy Smithers

Born: 1963-07-15

Joy Smithers (born 15 July 1963) is an Australian actress, best known for her acting performances on television, and her role as a television news presenter, such as with MTV Australia in the late 1980s. Her credits include: All The Way, Bangkok Hilton, The Flying Doctors, Home and Away, Lorca and the Outlaws, Wildside and All Saints. For a short time she was co-host of Good Morning Australia. In September 2008 Smithers made a return to acting, as Bridget Simmons in Home and Away. Smithers appeared in the 2008 Australian surfing film Newcastle, as well as the 2015 action film Mad Max: Fury Road. At the age of 15, Smithers was offered the role of Max Rockatansky's wife, Jessie, in the original 1979 Mad Max, but was forced to decline after her parents would not let her travel to Adelaide for production.


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Mad Max: Fury Road

as The Vuvalini
Released: 2015-05-13

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape...

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The Custodian

as Helen Quinlan
Released: 1994-03-17

Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and...

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Rebel

as Mary, All Girl Band
Released: 1985-12-05

This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating...

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River Street

as Marcia
Released: 1997-07-17

Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse...

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Emoh Ruo

as Terri Tunkley
Released: 1985-09-12

Nothing and no one is safe in this biting satire of the trials and tribulations of young...

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Sex Is a Four Letter Word

as Sylvia
Released: 1995-10-01

Some people say love is sex, sex is love. While others say sex is a four letter word. Sylvia is...

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Heart of Fire

as Julie Stoler
Released: 1997-01-07

While fighting a petrol tanker blaze, troubled firefighter Max Tucker discovers a young girl...

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The Seventh Floor

as Tracey
Released: 1994-09-30

Kate Fletcher has the perfect apartment. Everything is computer controlled. It is the home of...

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Love in the First Degree

as Leslie Barrett
Released: 2004-02-10

An actor takes a temporary job working as a secretary at a law firm, and is attracted to a...

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The Flying Doctors

as Claire Banks
First aired: 1986-05-15

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved...

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The Flying Doctors

as Claire Dobson
First aired: 1986-05-15

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved...

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The Flying Doctors

as Kerry Samuelson
First aired: 1986-05-15

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved...

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E Street

as Helen McCarthur
First aired: 1989-01-24

An Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called...

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Water Rats

as Gabi Cunningham
First aired: 1996-02-12

Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001.

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Heartbreak High

as Cassandra
First aired: 1994-04-01

The ins and outs of the classroom lives of a group of students who attend the fictional Hartley...

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Heartbreak High

as Karen Cooper
First aired: 1994-04-01

The ins and outs of the classroom lives of a group of students who attend the fictional Hartley...

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Amazing Grace

as Maureen
First aired: 2021-03-03

The series centres on midwife Grace and her passionate colleagues at an unconventional birth...

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Bangkok Hilton

as Mandy Engels
First aired: 1989-11-05

This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes...

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Blue Murder

as Debra Smith
First aired: 1995-09-14

Set in the 1970s and 1980s in Sydney, the miniseries concerns the relationship between...

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