Sandy Gore (born 28 June 1950) is an Australian film, stage and television actress. She has had an extensive stage career in Australia with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company including playing Vivian in Wit (2000) and Maria in Uncle Vanya (2010), reprising the latter role in New York in 2012.

Sandy Gore
Born (1950-06-28) 28 June 1950 (age 74)
OccupationActress
Spouse
(m. 1985; div. 1992)
Children1[1]

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On television, Gore appeared in the hit series Prisoner in 1980, as Kay White, the payroll-embezzling accountant who met a sticky end when her gambling addiction gets the better of her. Also, she has starred as Mother Ambrose in the 1991 mini-series Brides of Christ[2] and had guest roles in TV series such as Grass Roots and Farscape. She played Heckla in the 1992 children's sci-fi series Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left. She also appeared as Anja in Paws and as a guest role in Rafferty's Rules.

She was nominated three times for the Australian Film Institute Award (now AACTA Awards) for Best Supporting Actress, for her work in the Australian films Norman Loves Rose (1982), Undercover (1983) and Street Hero (1984). She also appeared in Evil Angels (1988), Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and in the epic film Australia (2008)[3][4]

Gore has worked extensively with the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company. Her stage roles include an acclaimed performance in the play Wit in 2000.[5] She played Baptista in the 2009 Australian tour of The Taming of the Shrew with the Bell Shakespeare Company, while in 2010, she was cast as Maria in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, alongside Cate Blanchett and Richard Roxburgh and reprised the role in 2012, when it transferred to New York at the New York City Center theatre.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Type
1970 The Lady from Peking Marisa Russo Feature film
1972 Pisces Dying Film short
1972 The Man Who Played With Boats Film short
1974 Petersen Suburban Housewife Feature film
1976 Eliza Fraser Lady Feature film
1978 The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style Narrator Feature film documentary
1981 The Stranger Film short
1982 Momento Film short
1982 Dead Easy Frieda Feature film
1982 Norman Loves Rose Maureen Feature film
1983 Moving Out Miss Stanislaus Feature film
1983 Night of Shadows Margo / Clare Neale / Lucy Film short
1984 Undercover Nina Feature film
1984 Street Hero Bonnie Rogers Feature film
1984 Access Code Uncredited Feature film
1988 Grievous Bodily Harm Barbara Helmsley Feature film
1988 Evil Angels (aka A Cry in the Dark) Joy Kuhl Feature film
1989 Luigi's Ladies Cee Feature film
1989 Minnamurra Maude Richards Feature film
1992 Lorenzo's Oil Murphy Family Feature film
1997 Paws Anja Feature film
1998 Kissing Katie Sandstrom Film short
2000 The Magic Pudding Frog on the Log (voice) Animated feature film
2006 Darklovestory Vera Feature film
2008 Australia Gloria Carney Feature film
2013 Only One Consultant Film short
2015 Now Add Honey Diane Feature film
2015 Super Awesome! Clarice Zegrab Feature film
2015 Women He's Undressed Hedda Hopper / Louella Parsons Feature film documentary
2021 Dust Cloud Francine Film short

Television

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Year Title Role Type
1967 Bellbird TV series
1969-1973 Homicide June Higgins / Jenny Moloney / Ruthie Miles / Ruth Cross TV series, 4 episodes
1969-1974 Division 4 Josie Nash / Mary Roberts / Martha Baldwin / Marie TV series, 4 episodes
1970 The Link Men Dale TV series, 1 episode
1970 The Juggler TV movie
1972 Dust or Polish Rita TV movie
1972 The Norman Lindsay Festival - Dust or Polish? Rita TV play
1974 Matlock Police Evelyn Armstrong TV series, 1 episode
1975 Cash and Company Madam TV series, 1 episode
1975 Quality of Mercy Sandy TV series, 1 episode "Send Him On His Way Rejoicing"
1976 Taggart's Treasure TV movie
1979 Ray Lawler Trilogy Nancy Wells / Pearl Cunningham TV series, 3 episodes
1979 Cop Shop Margaret Jamieson TV series, 1 episode
1979 Twenty Good Years Reba Cohen TV series
1980 Prisoner Kay White TV series, 18 episodes
1981 Bellamy Leanne TV series, 1 episode 25. "The Fizz"
1981 I Can Jump Puddles Miss Claws TV miniseries, 1 episode
1984 The Mike Walsh Show Guest (with John O'May) TV series, 1 episode
1984; 1991 A Country Practice Barbara Bolton / Meg Cullen TV series, 2 episodes
1985; 1988 The Flying Doctors unknown role TV miniseries, 1 episode
1985 Fitness - Make It Your Own Business Herself Film documentary
1985 I Can't Get Started Jenny TV movie
1985 Remember Me Adele TV movie
1988 The Clean Machine Marcia Irving TV movie
1988 The Flying Doctors Ann Williams TV series, 1 episode
1988; 1990 Rafferty's Rules Helen Hawthorne TV series, 2 episodes
1989; 1991 Chances Connie Taylor TV movie (unaired)
1991 Brides of Christ Mother Ambrose TV miniseries, 6 episodes
1991 A Country Practice Meg Cullen TV series, 4 episodes
1991 Chances TV series, 1 episode
1992 Six Pack Analyst TV series, 1 episode "Mimi Goes to the Analyst"
1993-1994 Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left Hecla TV series, 14 episodes
1993-1994 Newlyweds Irene Carter TV series, 52 episodes
1993-2000 Good Morning Australia Herself TV series, 6 episodes
1995 Spirits of the Forest Narrator TV documentary
1999 Mumbo Jumbo Phyllis TV movie
2000-2003 Farscape Nurse Vreena / Judge TV series, 3 episodes
2000 Murder Call Penny Satchwell TV series, 1 episode
2000-2003 Grass Roots Dr. Salwah Mandikis TV series, 18 episodes
2004 Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars Muoma TV miniseries, 2 episodes
2014 Rake District Court Judge TV series, 1 episode
2016 Here Come the Habibs Tetta TV series, 2 episodes
2017 Diary of an Uber Driver Anne TV series, 1 episode
2021 The Unusual Suspects Jeannie TV miniseries, 4 episodes
2023 Totally Completely Fine Gloria 1 episode
2023 Bay of Fires George TV series, 1 episode

References

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  1. ^ Turner, Brook (May 2007). "Curious George". The Australian Financial Review: 26–38. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  2. ^ O'connor, John J. (11 June 1993). "TV Weekend; Her Wish to Serve God And to Feed Her Ego". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  3. ^ Nicole and Hugh film Australia
  4. ^ "Man behind The Boy farewelled". Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Bobbys puzzle rather than dazzle - smh.com.au". www.smh.com.au. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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