Trudy Hellier

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Trudy Hellier
OccupationsActress, director, screenwriter
AwardsAustralia Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay

Trudy Hellier is an Australian actress, director and screenwriter with many television credits to her name.

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Selected credits

She was a featured in the Australian television programs Round the Twist as school teacher and love interest Fay James, [1] [2] and Frontline as segment producer Kate Preston. [3] [4] She appeared on Blue Heelers , The Games , Neighbours , The Secret Life of Us , Guinevere Jones , State Coroner , Law of the Land and Driven Crazy.

On stage she appeared in Working Out (George Fairfax Studio, 1991), [5] Mrs Warren's Profession (Newton Actors Group Studio Theatre, 1991), [6] Skin (The Top of the Town, 1995), [7] Trapped (playing as part of Poles Apart, La Mama, 1996) [8] and Crave (Fringe Festival, The Parkview Hotel, 2000) [9]

As a director she created the short film Trapped (2000) [10]

In 2011 she appeared as Deb in the touring production of Furiously Fertile. In addition to her acting, Hellier has also written and directed in the Australian TV and film industries. She won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay in a Short Fiction Film for Break & Enter in 1999. [11]

References

  1. Oliver, Robin (28 February 2000), "Show of the week", The Sydney Morning Herald
  2. Enker, Debi (24 February 2000), "Pick of the day", The Age
  3. Giles, David (Summer 2003), "Welcome to Frontline", Australian Screen Education
  4. "Welcome to Frontline", Champagne Comedy odcast, 8 September 2024
  5. Radic, Leonard (15 May 1991), "Work with accent on the positive", The Age
  6. Evans, Bob (2 December 1991), "Unpleasantness at its best", The Sydney Morning Herald
  7. Carroll, Steven (17 September 1995), "Show of the week", The Age
  8. Rundle, Guy (26 February 1996), "Poles Apart is good in parts", The Age
  9. Thomson, Helen (17 October 2000), "Work with accent on the positive", The Age
  10. Sanford, Tracey (5 August 2000), "'Trapped'", The Desert Sun
  11. Zion, Lawrie (14 November 1999), "Top film awards carried off by Two Hands", The Age