Biography
Deborah Kennedy is an Australian character actress whose career spans stage, film and television since the early 1970s.
She trained at the Sydney University Dramatic Society, Pageant Theatre in Education and Nimrod Acting School after attending Hornsby Girls' High School. Early screen work included the 1979 film Tim and a regular role in the soap opera The Restless Years (1977–1982).
Kennedy is recognised for her long-running part as Doris Collins in the period drama A Place to Call Home (2013–2018) and guest appearances in series such as Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012), Dance Academy (2010) and The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2023). Film credits include The Sum of Us (1994), Swimming Upstream (2003) and Ladies in Black (2018), in which she played Myra's Mother. She is also known for the Yellow Pages television commercial featuring the line "Not happy, Jan!".
