Kerry McGuire

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Kerry McGuire
OccupationActress
Years active1963-2005

Kerry McGuire is an Australian actress. [1]

Career

Film and TV

McGuire's creen roles include Olive where she played the titular Olive Bodill, an actress battling cancer, [2] Runaway Island as innkeeper Molly McKenzie and Against the Wind as Polly, also an innkeeper. [3]

Contents

Stage

Her long stage career [4] included roles in Absurd Person Singular runs at the Northside Theatre, [1] a gender swapped The Odd Couple [5] [6]

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleNotes
1971 Devlin Joan HunterTV play
1982 Runaway Island Molly McKenzieTV movie
1988 Olive Olive BodillTV movie
Won the 1988 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Actress in a Telefeature

Television

YearFilmRoleNotes
1971 Catwalk Kate MackenzieTV series
1979 Against the Wind PollyTV miniseries
Won the 1979 Sammy Award for Best Actress. Won the 1979 Logie [1] for Best Performance by an Actress in a Major Role.

Awards

For her performance in Olive she won the 1988 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Actress in a Telefeature. [7] For her role in Against the Wind she won the 1979 Sammy Award for best actress [8] and a 1979 Logie [1] for Best Performance by an Actress in a Major Role.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Collier, Shayne (30 October 1986), "Kerry happily puts her neck in a noose", The Sydney Morning Herald
  2. Morris, Joan (14 February 1988), "Television violence exercises the minds of the ABC.", The Canberra Times
  3. Adams, Clay (14 February 1981), "RUNAWAY ISLAND- for European eyes only", Woman's Weekly
  4. Kerry McGuire, AusStage
  5. Jamrozik, Wanda (24 September 1987), "Sex change surgery adds to the laughs - Florence ond Olive replace Felix and Oscar in a feminist-inspired update of the lonesome bachelors' story", The Sydney Morning Herald
  6. The Odd Couple, AusStage
  7. "And the winners were...", The Canberra Times, 12 October 1988
  8. "Hines, Walsh awarded gold Sammys", The Canberra Times, 18 October 1979