Wendy Hughes

Born: 1952-07-29

Wendy Hughes (29 July 1952 – 8 March 2014) was an Australian actress known for her work in theatre, film and television. Hughes was an award-winning actress. Her career spanned more than forty years and established her reputation as one of Australia's finest and most prolific actors. Her biggest role was in Lonely Hearts, played in 1982 (this film was the beginning of a long collaboration with director Paul Cox). In her later career she acted in Happy New Year along with stars Peter Falk and Charles Durning. In 1993 she played Dr. Carol Blythe, M. E. in Homicide: Life on the Street. In the late 1990s, she starred in State Coroner and Paradise Road. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendy Hughes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Paradise Road

as Mrs. Dickson
Released: 1997-02-11

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being...

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Not Quite Hollywood

as Self
Released: 2008-08-28

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art...

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Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue

as Elle
Released: 1991-10-31

Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies,...

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Princess Caraboo

as Mrs. Worrall
Released: 1994-09-16

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is...

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My Brilliant Career

as Aunt Helen
Released: 1979-08-17

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her...

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Happy New Year

as Carolyn
Released: 1987-08-07

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers...

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The Man Who Sued God

as Jules Myers
Released: 2001-10-25

A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is...

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Sidecar Racers

as Lynn Carson
Released: 1975-04-30

You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no...

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The Heist

as Sheila
Released: 1989-09-16

Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald...

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Newsfront

as Amy Mackenzie
Released: 1978-07-29

Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their...

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The View from Greenhaven

as Dorothy
Released: 2008-10-15

A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.

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Boundaries of the Heart

as Stella Marsden
Released: 1988-01-01

A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic...

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Careful, He Might Hear You

as Vanessa
Released: 1983-01-01

Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt...

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Hoodwink

as uncredited
Released: 1981-11-05

Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of...

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Luigi’s Ladies

as Sara
Released: 1989-05-11

Shaken by the stockmarket crash of ’87 … plus a few other distractions like attempted murder,...

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A Dangerous Summer

as Sophie McCann
Released: 1982-10-22

Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in...

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Donor

as Dr. Farrell
Released: 1990-12-09

Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when...

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Jock Petersen

as Dr. Patricia Kent
Released: 1974-01-01

Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English....

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Lonely Hearts

as uncredited
Released: 1982-11-01

In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano...

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An Indecent Obsession

as Honour Langtry
Released: 1985-05-23

Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric...

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Puzzle

as Claudine Cunningham
Released: 1978-12-05

Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and...

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Shadows of the Peacock

as Maria
Released: 1988-06-16

The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.

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Remember Me

as Jenny
Released: 1985-01-01

A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental...

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High Rolling

as Barbie
Released: 1977-08-04

Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and...

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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

as Girl
Released: 1987-05-10

A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled...

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My First Wife

as Helen
Released: 1984-09-12

My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also...

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The Alternative

as Melanie Hilton
Released: 1977-04-20

Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a...

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The Caterpillar Wish

as Elizabeth Roberts
Released: 2006-06-08

A young girl's view on belonging and loss.

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Kostas

as Carol
Released: 1979-01-02

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Touch and Go

as Eva
Released: 1980-06-12

Three attractive socialites working for charity turn to robbery to keep a special primary school...

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Duet for Four

as Barbara Dunstan
Released: 1982-02-26

A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his...

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Lt. Cmdr. Nella Daren
First aired: 1987-09-28

Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the...

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Homicide: Life on the Street

as uncredited
First aired: 1993-01-31

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...

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Homicide: Life on the Street

as Dr. Carol Blythe, M.E.
First aired: 1993-01-31

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...

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The Man from Snowy River

as Kathleen O'Neil
First aired: 1994-09-23

The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The...

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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

as Adele Freeman
First aired: 2012-02-24

Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting...

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Number 96

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-03-13

Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill...

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A Woman Named Jackie

as Janet Lee Bouvier
First aired: 1991-10-13

This biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie...

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Power Without Glory

as uncredited
First aired: 1976-06-21

Award-winning historical drama series which traces the life of John West from his impoverished...

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Return to Eden

as Jilly Stewart
First aired: 1983-09-27

Stephanie Harper is rich but insecure 40 year old heiress with two failed marriages behind her....

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City Homicide

as Victoria Semple
First aired: 2007-08-27

City Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's...

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Amerika

as Marion Andrews
First aired: 1987-02-15

Amerika is a miniseries about life in the United States, ten years after a bloodless takeover...

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State Coroner

as Kate Ferrari
First aired: 1997-08-14

State Coroner was an Australian television series screened on Network Ten in 1997 and 1998....

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Lucinda Brayford

as Lucinda Brayford
First aired: 1980-06-15

Based on the novel by Martin Boyd (1946) this miniseries tells the story of many generations of...

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Constructing Australia

as Self - Narrator
First aired: 2007-03-18

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