Babs McMillan

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Babs McMillan
Born
Australia
Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
  • playwright
  • teacher
[1]
Years active1970-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.

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Career

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. Was resident director for the "BUDDY – The Buddy Holly story" 1991–1992.

In May 2024, McMillian appeared in Rootless Cosmopolitan. [2]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1979 My Brilliant Career Miss Benson
1982A Shifting DreamingAnnie LockTelevision film documentary
1991 Deadly Coroner
1997 Oscar and Lucinda Mrs. Judd
1998 Babe: Pig in the City Matriarch
2005 Hating Alison Ashley Mrs. Orlando
2009Chocolate FetishPrue KaiserShort film
2013 Cliffy MerleTelevision film
2024The Honeysuckle SistersCoachFilm

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1974 Silent Number The ProstituteEpisode: "Something from the Past"
1975 The Dick Emery Show Episode: "Episode #14.10"
1977 Doctor on the Go NeridaEpisode: "Sunday Bleeping Sunday"
1979 Skyways Moira TrimmerEpisode: "Chalk and Cheese"
1981 Prisoner Miss VaughanSeason 3 (guest, 1 episode)
1983–84Cass ParkerSeason 5–6 (main, 60 episodes)
1983 The Young Doctors Erin Cosgrove8 episodes
1984 Special Squad Episode: "Return of the Cat"
1989 Rafferty's Rules Nurse McTaggartEpisode: "The Plague"
1993 Secrets Virginia Drury13 episodes
1995Good Morning AustraliaGuest – HerselfTV series, 1 episode
2002 Short Cuts Miri LiebermanEpisode: "As a Row of Tents"
2002 Legacy of the Silver Shadow Nursing Home ManagerEpisode: "Tomorrow the World"
2009 City Homicide Fran BensonEpisode: "The Forgotten"
2023Celebrity House CleanerSheila2 episodes
2023Talking PrisonerHerselfPodcast (episode 58, 13 September 2023)

References

  1. "Babs McMillan". AusStage.
  2. Parris, Simon (16 May 2024). "Monstrous Theatre: Rootless Cosmopolitans review". Man in Chair. Retrieved 29 January 2025.