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Lyndel Rowe | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Known for | Sons and Daughters, theatre roles |
Lyndel Rowe is an Australian actress of stage, television and film, who is best known for her work with the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Sydney Theatre Company and the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and for her role as Karen Fox/Hamilton in the television soap opera Sons and Daughters .
Ms. Rowe joined the Union Repertory Company (now the Melbourne Theatre Company) - in productions including Patrick White's, The Season at Sarsaparilla, Waltz of the Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Ghost Train; toured Australia with J.C. Williamson's Goodnight Mrs. Puffin (by Arthur Lovegrove), with Irene Handl.
Travelling to England she studied at the Royal Court Theatre, with George Devine and Keith Johnstone. Then a production with the International Theatre Company of The Seventh Seal (Painting on Wood). From there into repertory and into the company of a West End lunch-time theatre, TheatreScope, doing weekly seasons of one act Tennessee Williams, Ionesco, Anouilh etc.
Invited back to the Melbourne Theatre Company at Russell Street; roles including: Nancy - The Knack, Raymonde - Flea in her Ear, Irina - Three Sisters, Mary Warren - The Crucible, Margery Pinchwife - The Country Wife, Sheila - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Sandy - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Clarice - Servant of Two Masters, Marina - Pericles, Pip - Moby Dick, Grace - London Assurance, Charlotte - The Magistrate, Celemene - The Misanthrope, Gwendolyn - The Importance of Being Earnest.
Productions with the Sydney Theatre Company including the roles of: Kate - The Taming of the Shrew, Rose Trelawney - Trelawney of the Wells, Sonya - Uncle Vanya, Marianne - Tartuffe, Charlotte - The Real Thing.
With the South Australian Theatre Company: Phoebe - As You Like It, Daphne - Old King Cole, Jill - David Williamson's Handful of Friends. At the Playbox, Sydney, played Lucy in the musical - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. With Nimrod Street (now Belvoir St.), Gwendolyn - Stoppard's Travesties, and an Australian tour of Doctor in Love.
In England with the Liverpool Playhouse: Anna - Old Times, Dianne - Absent Friends, Raymonde - A Flea in Her Ear.
FILM
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Short Changed | Councellor | Feature film |
| 1986 | Playing Beattie Bow | Kathy | Feature film |
TELEVISION
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
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| 1961 | Quiet Night | unknown role | TV movie |
| 1964 | Consider Your Verdict | Helen Humphries | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1965 | Compact | Margaret | TV series UK, 1 episode |
| 1966 | BBC Play Of The Month | Jessie / Letta | TV series UK, 2 episodes |
| 1967 | Australian Playhouse | unknown role | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1967 | Hey You! | Sharlene | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1968-1976 | Homicide | Patty Bourke / Doreen / Carol Gould / Vicki Kramer (as Lyndall Rowe) | TV series, 4 episodes |
| 1968 | Shadow On The Wall | Lin Tan | ABC Teleplay |
| 1969 | The Cheerful Cuckold | Shirley | ABC Teleplay |
| 1969 | The Torrents | unknown role | ABC Teleplay |
| 1969-1973 | Division 4 | Jenny Armstrong / June / Norma Miles / Lorraine Hudson | TV series, 4 episodes |
| 1970 | The Juggler | unknown role | TV movie |
| 1970 | Delta | Jenny | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1971;1976 | Matlock Police | Judy Morrow / Carol Price | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1971 | Z-Cars | Jenny Swainson | TV series UK, 2 episodes |
| 1971 | Kate | Joyce Moore | TV series UK, 1 episode |
| 1971 | Father And Sons | Fenichka | TV miniseries UK, 4 episodes |
| 1974 | Moving On | Anne | TV movie |
| 1974 | Silent Number | Sharon | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1975 | The Last Of The Australians | Maria Agostini | TV series, Season 2 Episode 12: "The Stone Final Utter Bloody End" |
| 1976 | Tandarra | Lizzy | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1976 | Solo One | Louise Duncan (as Lyn Rowe) | TV series, 1 episode 12. "The Bike" |
| 1977 | The 19th Annual TV Week Logie Awards | Herself | TV special |
| 1978 | Cop Shop | Jessie Turner | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1979 | Banana Bender | Maureen | TV movie |
| 1981 | The Gentle Touch | Staff Nurse | TV series UK, 1 episode |
| 1984-1985 | Sons And Daughters | Karen Fox / Karen Hamilton | TV series, 73 episodes |
| 1985 | I Can't Get Started . [1] | Valerie | TV movie |
| 1987 | Melba | Blanche Marchesi | TV miniseries, 6 episodes |
| 1988 | Touch The Sun: Princess Kate | Anne McLelland | ABC TV movie |
| 2003 | Blue Heelers | Miss Stamford (as Lyndal Rowe) | TV series, 1 episode |
Ms. Rowe has been awarded a Television Society Award, and a Logie Award.
In 2004 appeared with Lewis Fiander in Afterplay under the direction of Malcolm Robertson, a UTRC veteran, at FortyFive Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.
Lyndel's other base is London, where she has been writing novels, short stories and a screenplay. She has essays published in Meanjin, and twice chosen for publication in The Best Australian Essays
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