Deidre Rubenstein

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Deidre Rubenstein (born 1948) [1] is an Australian television and theatre actress, as well as a dramatist and playwright well known for her performance in Australian soap operas and main stage dramatic roles. She has won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award as Best Actress.

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Rubenstein graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1967 [2] and has worked extensively in live theatre, television, films and as a narrator of audio books. She has produced a significant body of work as a narrator of audio books and has won several awards in this field. [3]

Television work

Rubenstein has worked in television comedies, drama, mini-series and TV movies. [4] In 1970 she appeared in an episode of Homicide . She played a guest role in Prisoner (1979–80), as terrorist Janet Dominguez. In 2004 Rubenstein played the scheming Svetlanka Ristic in the soap opera Neighbours . [4]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleType
1990Breaking ThroughAnnFilm
1991 The Girl Who Came Late (aka Daydream Believer)Trish SchultzFeature film
1996The Inner SanctuaryPeggyFeature film
1999 Siam Sunset Celia DroonFeature film
2000The CallingMartha O’ConnorShort film
2001Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny KimesLas Vegas JudgeTV film
2002 Secret Bridesmaids' Business RuthTV film
2004 Josh Jarman Theatre ActressFeature film
2008 Salvation Gloria’s CoachFeature film
2008 Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger Mrs FleisherFeature film
2011 Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away UncreditedTV film
2015Force of DestinyMiriamFeature film
2023 The Rooster Mrs PoulsonFeature film

Television

YearTitleRoleType
1970 Homicide JaneTV series, 1 episode
1978-1980 Prisoner Janet Dominguez TV series, 5 episodes
1980 Water Under the Bridge LaineyTV series, 3 episodes
1982 The Mike Walsh Show Guest - Herself with Tony TaylorTV series, 1 episode
1985 Palace of Dreams Chana MendelMiniseries, 10 episodes
1988AustraliansNanceMiniseries, 1 episode
1988 Rafferty's Rules Peggy GuestTV series, 1 episode
1988 A Country Practice Helen MorrisTV series, 2 episodes
1989 E Street Louise BakerTV series, 1 episode
1989 G.P. Iris GrimshawTV series, Recurring role
1996 Mercury Steffi PetrakisMiniseries, 2 episodes
1997-2003 Blue Heelers Helen Delaney, Magda LapenscuTV series, 2 episodes
2000 Introducing Gary Petty NancyTV series, 6 episodes
2001-02 BackBerner PsychologistTV series, 2 episodes
2002 The Secret Life of Us Nathan’s MumTV series, 2 episodes
2002 MDA Dr FallowsTV series, 1 episode
2004 Neighbours Svetlanka Ristic TV series, 12 episodes
2007 Kick Reva FeinmannMiniseries, 1 episode
2008 Saddle Club Rosemary CrossTV series, 1 episode
2008 City Homicide Cheridah LapstoneTV series, 1 episode
2021 Superwog AgnesYouTube series, 1 episode

Theatre

Rubenstein's career in the theatre includes work with several major Australian companies, including the Nimrod Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company. [5]

In 1993, she had a solo show called What's a Girl to Do?, [6] where she performed poems written by contemporary Australian women poets. [7] It was later performed by Rubenstein at The Stables Theatre in Sydney (1994) and at the 1995 Edinburgh Festival. [8]

This show inspired her to do another solo show using work commissioned for her, work that was written to be performed live. She was awarded a Victorian Government Women Artist's Grant and commission contemporary writers to produce the performance pieces that were later and produced in a book called Confidentially yours. The first performance was in the Playbox Theatre Centre, C.U.B Malthouse, Melbourne on 11 February 1998. The writers commissioned to produce the work that became Confidentially Yours were, Janis Balodis, Andrew Bovell, Nick Enright, Michael Gurr, Daniel Keene, Joanna Murray-Smith and Debra Oswald. Andrew Bovell wrote a pair of stories for the show that he later used in the script for the film Lantana .

In 2005, Rubenstein performed in Menopause the Musical, a comedy breaking down the taboos about menopause. [9] With Caroline Gillmer, Susan-Ann Walker and Jane Clifton, Rubenstein, as "The Dubbo Housewife", explored the stereotypes and madness of that time in a woman's life.

In 2015, she played Gertrude Stein in the musical Loving Repeating - a Musical of Gertrude Stein in Melbourne.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ "Australian Library Collection". Libraries Australia. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
  2. ↑ "NIDA Graduates". NIDA. Archived from the original on 5 February 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2007.
  3. ↑ "Bibliography in Louis Braille Audio Books". 30 June 2007. Archived from the original on 27 June 2002.
  4. 1 2 "IMDb Filmography". 30 June 2007.
  5. ↑ "Deirdre Rubenstein as "The Dubbo Housewife"". 2 February 2005. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007.
  6. ↑ "What's a Girl To Do? By Deidre Rubenstein". Playbox theatre Center General Information. Archived from the original on 31 August 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2007.
  7. ↑ Rubenstein, Deirdre, ed. (1998). Confidentially yours (Australian Drama – 20th Century). Melbourne: Currency Press, Sydney, in Association with Playbox Theatre Centre, Monash University. p. iv. ISBN   0-86819-553-7.
  8. ↑ Rubenstein (1998). p.iv
  9. ↑ "Flushed with Success". The Age. Melbourne. 31 January 2005.
  10. ↑ "News Release: Women Artists Honoured". 6 May 1997. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2019.
  11. ↑ "Medial Release: TDK Australian Audio Book Awards celebrate 10 years of excellence". 11 November 1998.
  12. ↑ "Louis Braille Audio Award List". 30 June 2007. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013.
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