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Babs McMillan | |
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| Born | Australia |
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| Years active | 1970-present |
Babs McMillan is an Australian stage, film, television actress and director, playwright and teacher, based in Melbourne She is best known for her roles in two popular television series during the 1980s.
McMillan played the acerbic Sister Erin Cosgrove during the final year of television series The Young Doctors and dimwitted country bumpkin Cass Parker in Prisoner . In the late 1990s, she appeared in the Australian espionage drama Secrets .
McMillan has appeared in the movies Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Babe: Pig in the City (1998), My Brilliant Career (1979) and Hating Alison Ashley (2005).
On stage McMillan has acted extensively with the Melbourne Theatre Company. Apart from acting, McMillan has helped many students as Director of Drama at the National Theatre Drama School in Melbourne.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | My Brilliant Career | Miss Benson | |
| 1982 | A Shifting Dreaming | Annie Lock | Television film documentary |
| 1991 | Deadly | Coroner | |
| 1997 | Oscar and Lucinda | Mrs. Judd | |
| 1998 | Babe: Pig in the City | Matriarch | |
| 2005 | Hating Alison Ashley | Mrs. Orlando | |
| 2009 | Chocolate Fetish | Prue Kaiser | Short film |
| 2013 | Cliffy | Merle | Television film |
| 2024 | The Honeysuckle Sisters | Coach | Film |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Silent Number | The Postitute | Episode: "Something from the Past" |
| 1975 | The Dick Emery Show | Episode: "Episode #14.10" | |
| 1977 | Doctor on the Go | Nerida | Episode: "Sunday Bleeping Sunday" |
| 1979 | Skyways | Moira Trimmer | Episode: "Chalk and Cheese" |
| 1981 | Prisoner | Miss Vaughan | Season 3 (guest, 1 episode) |
| 1983–84 | Cass Parker | Season 5–6 (main, 60 episodes) | |
| 1983 | The Young Doctors | Erin Cosgrove | 8 episodes |
| 1984 | Special Squad | Episode: "Return of the Cat" | |
| 1989 | Rafferty's Rules | Nurse McTaggart | Episode: "The Plague" |
| 1993 | Secrets | Virginia Drury | 13 episodes |
| 1995 | Good Morning Australia | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2002 | Short Cuts | Miri Lieberman | Episode: "As a Row of Tents" |
| 2002 | Legacy of the Silver Shadow | Nursing Home Manager | Episode: "Tomorrow the World" |
| 2009 | City Homicide | Fran Benson | Episode: "The Forgotten" |
| 2023 | Celebrity House Cleaner | Sheila | 2 episodes |
| 2023 | Talking Prisoner | Herself | Podcast (episode 58, 13 September 2023) |
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