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name: "Deborah Kennedy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/deborah-kennedy"
fi1m_id: "deborah-kennedy"
imdb_id: "nm0447992"
tmdb_id: 96460
wikidata_id: "Q5248291"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1935"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T08:12:02.016928+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Deborah Kennedy

## Identity

Deborah Kennedy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/deborah-kennedy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** deborah-kennedy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0447992
- **TMDB ID:** 96460
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5248291
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Kennedy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5248291, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447992/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96460

Actor. Born 1 January 1935 in Australia.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1935, Australia
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Kennedy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5248291, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447992/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96460

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Ladies in Black*](https://film.one/film/ladies-in-black.md) (62)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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!".

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ladies in Black* (2018), Fi1m 62, as Myra's Mother — [page](https://film.one/film/ladies-in-black.md)

## Complete filmography (43)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Jimpa* (2026), as Katherine
- *Return to Paradise* (2024), series, as Maggie Mitchell
- *The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart* (2023), series, as Merle
- *Totally Completely Fine* (2023), series, as Beatrice
- *Cold Water* (2023), as Joy
- *There Goes Our Neighbourhood* (2018), as Narrator
- *Ladies in Black* (2018), as Myra's Mother — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/ladies-in-black.md)
- *The Principal* (2015), series, as Val
- *Women He's Undressed* (2015), as Florence Kelly
- *A Place to Call Home* (2013), series, as Doris Collins
- *365 Decision Time* (2012), as Gabriela
- *Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries* (2012), series, as Georgina Charlesworth
- *Dance Academy* (2010), series, as Miss Histead
- *The Jesters* (2009), series, as Di Sunnington
- *Charlie & Boots* (2009), as Miles Waitress
- *Closed for Winter* (2009), as Dorothy
- *Bastard Boys* (2007), series, Actor
- *Small Claims: White Wedding* (2005), as Trudy Duffy
- *The Brush-Off* (2004), as Trish
- *Stiff* (2004), as Trish
- *Thunderstruck* (2004), as Matron of Honour
- *Swimming Upstream* (2003), as Billie
- *McLeod's Daughters* (2001), series, as Cathy Cronin
- *My Mother Frank* (2000), as Receptionist
- *Federation* (1999), as Louisa Lawson
- *Thank God He Met Lizzie* (1997), as June
- *Good Guys, Bad Guys* (1997), series, as Bridget Costello
- *Idiot Box* (1997), as Detective Leanne
- *The Roly Poly Man* (1994), as Chantal
- *The Sum of Us* (1994), as Joyce Johnson
- *The Boffins* (1993), series, as Madame Curie (voice)
- *Death in Brunswick* (1991), as June
- *Police Rescue* (1991), series, as Bronwyn, Bronwyn Catteau
- *Chances* (1991), series, as Connie Reynolds
- *Johnson & Friends* (1990), series, as Victoria
- *Grievous Bodily Harm* (1988), as Madeleine Kovitch
- *Kadaicha* (1988), as Mrs. Millhouse
- *Home and Away* (1988), series, as Vet
- *Rafferty's Rules* (1987), series, as Miss Herron
- *The Empty Beach* (1985), as Newspaper Librarian
- *Mishaps of Seduction and Conquest* (1984), as Emma
- *Tim* (1979), as Dawnie Melville
- *Temperament Unsuited* (1978), Actor

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