Lynette Curran

Lynette Curran

Birthday: 1945-01-01

Place of Birth: Australia

Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lynette Curran is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Australian television series and films. Between 1967 and 1974 she was a regular in soap opera Bellbird. She also acted in the film version of the serial, Country Town (1971). She started acting in the theatre in 1964. Theatre work includes The Country Wife, Rookery Nook, Richard II, Just Between Ourselves, and Ashes for the Melbourne Theatre Company. She also played in Steaming for the Seymour Centre in Sydney. Early film roles included Alvin Purple (1973), Caddie (1976), Heatwave (1982). In the late 1970s she made further television appearances, including roles in soap opera Number 96 (in 1976), and in police procedurals Bluey and Cop Shop. Curran was a recurring cast member of soap opera The Restless Years (1977-1981), playing the scheming Jean Stafford. She won a Sammy Award for her role in Australian Broadcasting Corporation series Spring and Fall. Later roles include feature films The Delinquents, Somersault, and Japanese Story. On television she played Brenda Jackson in the Love My Way, and acted in Underbelly: The Golden Mile. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynette Curran, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

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Alvin Purple
Alvin Purple

Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere....

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Japanese Story
Japanese Story

Sandy, a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man sh...

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The Boys
The Boys

Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence ...

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Somersault
Somersault

Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed...

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Comrades
Comrades

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one ...

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The Year My Voice Broke
The Year My Voice Broke

Set in 1962, a young prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and fi...

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Bliss
Bliss

An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buyi...

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Dead to the World
Dead to the World

Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school....

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My Mother Frank
My Mother Frank

When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome...

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To The Other Shore
To The Other Shore

A deeply personal study of motherhood as a ‘rite of passage’. It interweaves moments from the filmma...

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Prime Mover
Prime Mover

A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dre...

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Bullseye
Bullseye

In the 1860s, two friends, Harry and Bluey, steal a thousand head of cattle and trek it across count...

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Mushrooms
Mushrooms

In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and ma...

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These Final Hours
These Final Hours

What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-abs...

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A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Journey to the Center of the Earth

Following the instructions on a mysterious parchment, Prof. Lindenbrock and his companion, Alex, dis...

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Road to Nhill
Road to Nhill

Four women bowlers on their way home to Pyramid Hill (population 550) from a tournament roll their c...

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Police State
Police State

An account of events in Queensland from 1959 to 1988 as disclosed by the Fitzgerald inquiry. Queensl...

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the myst...

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Becca
Becca

Wales in the 19th Century. Becca is married to Dai, who is transported to the penal colony of Diemen...

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Stories of Lost Souls
Stories of Lost Souls

Seven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to ove...

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Call Me Mum
Call Me Mum

Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, hi...

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Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey
Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey

The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled...

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Just Desserts
Just Desserts

JUST DESSERTS is a reflective and evocative film which looks at the development of Maria Stroppi's s...

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Country Town
Country Town

In this movie version of "Bellbird" (1967) a reporter, Philip Henderson stirs up the town further wh...

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Brothers' Nest
Brothers' Nest

With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she...

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Birdie
Birdie

A casual gesture of friendliness quickly spirals into a paralysing moment for a woman on a train....

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Not Quite Hollywood
Not Quite Hollywood

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...

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Bangers
Bangers

Julie-Anne comes home from a hard day at the office to discover her mother has locked the cat in the...

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Bluey
Bluey

Bluey, an angry young woman trapped in a life of violence, meets a mystery mentor who could change e...

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Black Chook
Black Chook

They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children...

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Praise
Praise

An unfocused twentysomething moves in with a former co-worker, who is suffering from low self-esteem...

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Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar and Lucinda

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican mini...

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The Delinquents
The Delinquents

A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they ...

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A Few Less Men
A Few Less Men

Travel plans for three men go horribly wrong with a race against time to return Luke home....

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Prada Handbag
Prada Handbag

What's a girl to do when a rare hair-loss condition leaves her with an obsession for zany wigs and m...

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