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| + | [[File:Th-4.jpg|thumb|300px]]'''Judith Ann "Judy" Nunn (AM)''' (born 13th April, 1945, Perth, Western Australia) is an internationally renowned best-selling author and former actress. She played original character [[Ailsa Stewart]] (Hogan) on Home and Away from the pilot episode in 1988 until 2000. |
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| − | '''Judith Ann "Judy" Nunn''', (also known as a publisher Judy Bernard Waite) (AM) (born in 13th April, 1945, Perth, Western Australia) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Nunn] an internationally renowned best selling author and former Australian actress who played original character [[Ailsa Stewart]] (Hogan) in Home and Away from the pilot episode in [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638066/ [[File:Th-3.jpg|thumb]]][[undefined|thumb|link=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638066/]]1988 to 2000. Judy's husband Bruce Venables was a former policeman and actor, who coincidentally spoke the first line of dialogue in the series, they married the same week as her oncscreen character married Alf Stewart |
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| − | + | Judy's husband Bruce Venables is a former policeman turned actor, who coincidentally spoke the first line of dialogue on Home and Away. They married the same week as her on-screen character married [[Alf Stewart]]. |
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| − | Her career in TV started when she was a scriptwriter. She wrote episodes for [[Neighbours]]. |
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==Pre H&A Career== |
==Pre H&A Career== |
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| + | Judy began taking acting lessons as a teenager. She moved to Sydney shortly before she turned 19 to pursue an acting career and eventually ended up in London. She spent 5 years in England, acting on stage, on radio and on television. She returned to Australia in 1973 and continued her acting career. Some of her credits included parts in Prisoner, Skyways, Sons and Daughters and A Country Practice. However, she was probably best known for playing the scheming, bisexual TV journalist Vicki Stafford on the risqué TV series The Box. Interestingly, she also did some writing for Neighbours in 1985 <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638066/#writer ''IMDB'', </ref> |
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| − | She has appeared in numerous serials, including Skyways, Prisoner, A Country Practice and Sons and Daughter's , but is probably best known as Vicki Stafford in The Box, before retiring from acting to become a full time author. She was gawared the Order of Australia in the Queens Birthday honours. |
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==Home And Away== |
==Home And Away== |
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| + | Judy was cast as Ailsa Hogan on Home and Away and remained on the series until 2000. During her time on the show, her character got to marry Alf Stewart, reveal a surprisingly dark past, suffer a nervous breakdown (what ''was'' in those pills that made Bobby appear in the fridge?) and eventually die of a heart attack. |
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| + | During her time on Home and Away, Judy became more interested in writing. She wrote and published four novels, using the down-time on the show to write. "I wrote four books while I was still doing Home and Away,” she says. "When we were either burying or marrying someone on the show, Then they’d yell, ‘Action!’ and I’d sit in the scene and cry with happiness or sadness.” <ref>[http://judynunn.com.au/about ''Biography from Judy's Official Website'']</ref> |
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==After Home And Away== |
==After Home And Away== |
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| + | Once she left Home and Away in 2000, Judy became a full-time author. As of 2019, she has written 14 adult books and written/co-written 4 children's books. Her books have sold over 1 million copies worldwide. |
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| + | In 2015 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her "significant service to the performing arts as a scriptwriter and actor of stage and screen, and to literature as an author". <ref>[https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/judy-nunn ''Judy Nunn's Page at Penguin Books'']</ref> |
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==Refs== |
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| − | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638066/ (find Judy Nunn at wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Nunn] ) |
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Revision as of 02:18, 27 February 2019
Judith Ann "Judy" Nunn (AM) (born 13th April, 1945, Perth, Western Australia) is an internationally renowned best-selling author and former actress. She played original character Ailsa Stewart (Hogan) on Home and Away from the pilot episode in 1988 until 2000.
Judy's husband Bruce Venables is a former policeman turned actor, who coincidentally spoke the first line of dialogue on Home and Away. They married the same week as her on-screen character married Alf Stewart.
Pre H&A Career
Judy began taking acting lessons as a teenager. She moved to Sydney shortly before she turned 19 to pursue an acting career and eventually ended up in London. She spent 5 years in England, acting on stage, on radio and on television. She returned to Australia in 1973 and continued her acting career. Some of her credits included parts in Prisoner, Skyways, Sons and Daughters and A Country Practice. However, she was probably best known for playing the scheming, bisexual TV journalist Vicki Stafford on the risqué TV series The Box. Interestingly, she also did some writing for Neighbours in 1985 [1]
Home And Away
Judy was cast as Ailsa Hogan on Home and Away and remained on the series until 2000. During her time on the show, her character got to marry Alf Stewart, reveal a surprisingly dark past, suffer a nervous breakdown (what was in those pills that made Bobby appear in the fridge?) and eventually die of a heart attack.
During her time on Home and Away, Judy became more interested in writing. She wrote and published four novels, using the down-time on the show to write. "I wrote four books while I was still doing Home and Away,” she says. "When we were either burying or marrying someone on the show, Then they’d yell, ‘Action!’ and I’d sit in the scene and cry with happiness or sadness.” [2]
After Home And Away
Once she left Home and Away in 2000, Judy became a full-time author. As of 2019, she has written 14 adult books and written/co-written 4 children's books. Her books have sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
In 2015 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her "significant service to the performing arts as a scriptwriter and actor of stage and screen, and to literature as an author". [3]