---
name: "Jeanie Drynan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeanie-drynan"
fi1m_id: "jeanie-drynan"
imdb_id: "nm0238758"
tmdb_id: 3060
wikidata_id: "Q3807728"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 May 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:00:50.180207+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."
---

# Jeanie Drynan

## Identity

Jeanie Drynan

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeanie-drynan
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeanie-drynan
- **IMDb ID:** nm0238758
- **TMDB ID:** 3060
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3807728
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_Drynan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3807728, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0238758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3060

Actor. Born 5 May 1947 in Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 May 1947, Australia
- **Also known as:** Jeannie Drynan,  Jeanine Drynan, Jeanne Drynan
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_Drynan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3807728, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0238758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3060

## Biography

Jeanie Drynan is an Australian actress. She studied at the Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama in Scotland and trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Australia, graduating in 1961. Her career began in the early 1960s with roles in Australian film and television.

Drynan is known for her performance as Betty Heslop in the 1994 film *Muriel's Wedding*. Other notable credits include *Don's Party* (1976), the television series *Prisoner* (as Angela Jeffries) and *Class of '74*, and *Soft Fruit* (1999). She has received three Australian Film Institute Award nominations: for Best Supporting Actress in *Don's Party* (1977) and *Muriel's Wedding* (1994), and Best Actress for *Soft Fruit* (1999).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Muriel's Wedding* (1994), Fi1m 81, as Betty Heslop — [page](https://film.one/film/muriels-wedding.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Zelos* (2017), as Lynn
- *Skin Deep* (2014), as Anna
- *Soft Fruit* (1999), as Patsy
- *A Kind of Hush* (1999), as Beryl
- *Paperback Hero* (1999), as Suzie
- *A Season in Purgatory* (1996), series, Actor
- *Muriel's Wedding* (1994), as Betty Heslop — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/muriels-wedding.md)
- *The Girl from Tomorrow* (1992), series, as Miss Durkin
- *Cappuccino* (1989), as Maggie
- *Rafferty's Rules* (1987), series, as Carol Taylor
- *The Flying Doctors* (1986), series, as Sal Cleary
- *Fantasy Man* (1985), as Liz Bailey
- *Touch and Go* (1980), as Gina
- *Prisoner* (1979), series, as Angela Jeffries
- *Money Movers* (1978), as Dawn Jackson
- *Hospitals Don't Burn Down* (1978), as Sister
- *The Picture Show Man* (1977), as Mrs Duncan
- *Don's Party* (1976), as Kath
- *The Black Arrow* (1973), as (voice)
- *The Swiss Family Robinson* (1973), as (voice)
- *Two Thousand Weeks* (1969), as Jacky Lewis
- *Skippy the Bush Kangaroo* (1968), series, as Iris Temple, Dulcie Condon
- *Homicide* (1964), series, as Sandra O'Brien

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