Linda Hartley-Clark

Last updated

Linda Hartley-Clark
Born (1967-12-28) 28 December 1967 (age 55)
Australia
Other namesLinda Hartley
OccupationActress
Years active1981–present

Linda Hartley-Clark (born 28 December 1967[ citation needed ]) is an Australian actress who played Kerry Bishop on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1989 to 1990. She also did a guest stint in 2005 playing Gabrielle Walker, who in the storyline was recognised by Harold Bishop (Ian Smith) as Kerry's lookalike. Linda also played a small character in the first year of Neighbours called Gloria Slater, who was a friend/colleague of Paul Robinson. In 2004 and 2006, Hartley-Clark provided voiceovers for Kerry's diary being read by her daughter Sky Mangel (Stephanie McIntosh).

Contents

Biography

Before this she appeared in children's drama series Home, and in Prisoner as Roach Waters in 1986. Hartley-Clark lives in Melbourne with her husband, John Clark (married since 1989, (former drummer with Craig McLachlan's band, Check 1–2) and their two young children, where she works as a relationship counsellor, having qualified with a PhD from Deakin University. [1]

In 2023 Hartley-Clarke gave an interview with Talking Prisoner [2] .

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2023Talking Prisoner [3] Self1 episode
2006-85 Neighbours Kerry Mangel / Gabrielle Walker205 episodes
1999Grange HillAirport Check In1 episode
1998 All Saints (TV series) Linda Taylor2 episodes
1998Breakers
1993Anna Lee: HeadcasePippaTV Movie
1992WYSIWYGLinda5 episodes
1989Closer and Closer ApartAngieVideo
The Flying Doctors Linda Gallagher1 episode
1986While You're Down ThereVarious6 episodes
1986 Prisoner (TV series) Roach Waters27 episodes
1985The Flying DoctorsDiana Daniels3 episodes
1984 Carson's Law Peggy Roche4 episodes
1984The Fire in the StoneSophieTV Movie
1983Home6 episodes
1981Cornflakes for teaTrish6 episodes
1981The Bush Gang5 episodes

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian Smith (actor)</span> Australian actor (born 1938)

Ian Smith is an Australian actor, television producer and screenwriter.

<i>Prisoner</i> (TV series) Australian television drama series

Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera, which broadcast on Network Ten from February 27 (Melbourne) February 26 (Sydney) 1979 to December 1986 (Melbourne), though the series finale would not screen until September 1987 in Sydney, where it aired as a three-hour film that was split into three one-hour episodes at the much-later time-slot of 10:30 p.m., running eight seasons and 692 episodes.

Reginald James Watson was an Australian television producer and screenwriter and executive.

Valerie Kathleen Lehman is an Australian actress and director, best known locally and internationally for her role as the antagonist "Top Dog" and self-styled Queen Bea Smith in the Australian TV series Prisoner for the first five series from 1979 until 1983.

Colette Mann is an Australian actress, singer, TV and radio presenter, choreographer and author/writer and media personality, she has been in the entertainment industry for over 50 years.

Betty Ann Bobbitt was an American actress, director, singer, and playwright based in Australia, with a career that spanned over 60 years, encompassing theatre, television, and film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tottie Goldsmith</span> Australian actress, singer (born 1962)

Caroline "Tottie" Goldsmith is an Australian actress and singer. She was a founding member of the Chantoozies, a pop group formed in 1986.

Fiona Spence is an Australian stage and television actress and drama teacher. She is known for her television roles including Prisoner (1979–81) as Gestapo-like prison officer Vera Bennett and Home and Away as the unlucky-in-love spinster Celia Stewart (1988–90).

Glenda Linscott is an Australian actress and director, born in Rhodesia of English descent, best known internationally for her performance in cult drama series Prisoner as tough bikie inmate and top dog Rita "The Beater" Connors and series Murder Call

Mary Lorraine Ward, also known as Mary Ward Breheny, was an Australian actress of stage, television, and film. Her career spanned seven decades. Ward trained in England and Australia, and worked in both countries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vivean Gray</span> Television and film actress (1924–2016)

Jean Vivra Gray, known professionally as Vivean Gray, also credited as Vivian Gray and Viven Gray, was an English television and film actress. She starred in the films Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, but her best-known roles were in TV soap operas, after having appeared in numerous roles for Crawford Productions, she had regular roles in serials, The Sullivans, as Ida Jessup for its entire run from 1976 to 1983; in Prisoner, as Edna Pearson 1984, and in Neighbours, as Nell Mangel from 1986 to 1988.

Margot Knight is an Australian actress of television and stage, voice artist and a screenwriter. She had numerous guest roles in TV series and telemovies, but is best known for her stints playing two roles in the highly popular cult series Prisoner ; she played inmate Sharon Gilmour in 1980 and junior prison officer Terri Malone in 1985.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicki Paull</span> Australian actress

Nicola Paull, is an Australian actress and a registered counsellor. Though predominantly known for her work on television, she has also appeared in films and on stage, as well as performing as a voice-over artist and narrator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joe Mangel</span> Soap opera character

Joe Mangel is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours, played by Mark Little. He debuted on-screen in the episode airing on 8 August 1988. Joe left in 1991 when Little departed the serial. In 2005 Little agreed to reprise the role as part of Neighbours' twentieth anniversary celebrations and remained for four months. Joe's storylines included his bad relationship with his mother, being widowed, life as a single parent and a custody battle to keep his child. Joe is deemed a stereotype Australian man and a likable rogue character. Little returned to Neighbours in 2022 to celebrate the show's final episode.

Tiffany "Lochy" McLachlan is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Amber Kilpatrick. She made her first on-screen appearance on 23 October 1989. Tiffany is described as being a little terror and always getting into mischief. She becomes friends with Toby Mangel and manages to get him into trouble too. Tiffany's storylines often saw her tomboyish and mischievous sides come out. She attacks a family of Magpies after being dive bombed by one, she lies to her aunt that Kerry Bishop is mistreating her, she almost drowns after going to the beach and convinces Joe Mangel that he has been cursed. Tiffany departed on 21 June 1990 after deciding to join her parents in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kerry Bishop</span> Soap opera character

Kerry Bishop is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Linda Hartley-Clark. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 1 February 1989. Kerry is Mavis and Harold Bishop's only daughter and David Bishop's sister. Kerry left home when she was young to travel the world. She met Eric and fell pregnant with their daughter, Sky. Following her arrival in Erinsborough, Kerry began a relationship with Joe Mangel and they eventually married. Kerry adopted Joe's son and fell pregnant again. However, while out protesting a duck hunt, Kerry was shot and she and her unborn child died. Kerry departed on 10 September 1990, but Hartley-Clark returned in 2004 and 2006 to record voice-overs. She also appeared in 2005 as Kerry's look-alike Gabrielle Walker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Celia Ireland</span> Australian actress

Celia Ireland is an Australian actress. She is best known for her role as Regina Butcher on the television series All Saints and her Logie award winning role as Liz Birdsworth on the prison drama series Wentworth.

References

  1. "Publications | Dr Linda Hartley-Clark".
  2. https://player.fm/series/talking-prisoner/talking-prisoner-cell-block-h-ep-37-interview-with-linda-hartley-inmate-roach-waters
  3. Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 37 Interview with Linda Hartley (Inmate Roach Waters) , retrieved 27 December 2023