Melissa Jaffer
Melissa Jaffer (born December 1, 1936) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her television roles, but has also appeared in many Australian films. Jaffer has made many appearances in television series, including Kings, Mother and Son, G. P., Brides of Christ, Grass Roots and All Saints. Jaffer is probably best known to international audiences for her role as aging mystic Utu-Noranti Pralatong in the science fiction series Farscape. In 1976, Jaffer tied for the first AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role opposite Jacki Weaver for her performance in Caddie. In 1980 she played the part of Cousin Edie in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's children's television series The Nargun and the Stars. In the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road she played the role of "Keeper of the Seeds". The short film Dear Life is her latest project.
Mad Max: Fury Road
as Keeper of the SeedsAn apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape...
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A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn...
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Komodo
as Patrick's GrandmotherDuring the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on an North Carolina island. Somehow, the...
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The Cars That Ate Paris
as BethAfter the death of his brother on the road, unemployed and unstable drifter Arthur Waldo stays...
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Weekend of Shadows
as ViIn the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer...
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The Delinquents
as Aunt WestburyA small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because...
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Ride a Wild Pony
as Mrs. PirieScott, a poor farm boy, is given a wild pony from a wealthy ranch owner's herd to ride to and...
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My Mother Frank
as Sister SebastianWhen a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with...
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The Farm
as Helen CooperAfter the death of his father, Tom Cooper want to modernise the family farm, and borrows a lot...
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Starstruck
as Mrs. BoothA Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.
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Caddie
as LeslieProud and classy Caddie Marsh is forced to get a job as a barmaid and raise two children on her...
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The Coolangatta Gold
as Ballet TeacherSteve Lucas is a nineteen year old who is filled with the burning resentment of being forced to...
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Kindred
as ShirleyPenny is in her mid-twenties. For years she has suffered from the sexual assaults of her father,...
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The Distant Home
as Mrs. WebsterGovernment authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an...
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Do I Have to Kill My Child?
as Mrs. HammondA disturbing drama about a young mother who physically abuses her baby. Feeling overwhelmed and...
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Molly
as Aunt JennyAfter Dan collapses at a train station, he enlists Maxie to watch his beloved dog, Molly. Maxie...
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You and Me and Uncle Bob
as SylvieTwo children who play cupid to an unlikely older couple: a chorus girl and an unemployed butcher.
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BlackJack
as Helen KirstenJack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in...
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Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien
as Granny MarshallA young girl obsessed with watching the heavens bets her telescope with the local bully that...
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Strangers
as uncreditedWhen aged-care facility workers find two residents in bed together, familial tensions rise.
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Farscape
as NilaamA freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a...
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Farscape
as Female PilotA freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a...
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Farscape
as NorantiA freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a...
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E Street
as QueenieAn Australian television soap opera, set in a tough fictional inner-city district called...
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The Lost World
as Crazy Old WomanEarly 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon...
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Police Rescue
as GwenPolice Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales...
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All Saints
as Eileen SullivanMedical drama focusing on the working and personal lives of the doctors and nurses working on...
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Brides of Christ
as Sister AttractaDiane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to...
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Snobs
as GwenSnobs is a 2003 Australian TV series by Southern Star Group broadcast on the Nine Network. The...
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Grass Roots
as Fran SmithGrass Roots is an Australian television series produced by the Australian Broadcasting...
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Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
as Utu-Noranti PralatongWhen a full-scale war is engaged by the evil Scarran Empire, the Peacekeeper Alliance has but...
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The Harp in the South
as Miss SheilyThe Harp in the South (1948), a classic Australian novel by Ruth Park, follows the Darcy family,...
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