---
name: "Patricia Kennedy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/patricia-kennedy"
fi1m_id: "patricia-kennedy"
imdb_id: "nm0448265"
tmdb_id: 127138
wikidata_id: "Q7145669"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 March 1917"
died: "10 December 2012"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:32:30.698285+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."
---

# Patricia Kennedy

## Identity

Patricia Kennedy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/patricia-kennedy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** patricia-kennedy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0448265
- **TMDB ID:** 127138
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7145669
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Kennedy_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7145669, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448265/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127138

Actor. Born 17 March 1917 in Queenscliff. Died 10 December 2012.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 March 1917, Queenscliff
- **Died:** 10 December 2012
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Kennedy_(actress), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7145669, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448265/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127138

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*My Brilliant Career*](https://film.one/film/my-brilliant-career.md) (82)

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

## Biography

Patricia Kennedy was an Australian actress with a career spanning theatre, radio, film and television from the 1940s. Born in Queenscliff, Victoria, she trained as a schoolteacher before winning an amateur drama festival in the late 1930s. She began her professional stage career in 1943 and became closely associated with the Melbourne Theatre Company, while also performing in England with the Bristol Old Vic.

Her film roles included Miss Chapman in *The Getting of Wisdom* (1977) and Aunt Gussie in *My Brilliant Career* (1979), for which she received an AFI Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in numerous television series and received the OBE in 1982 for services to the performing arts. Kennedy died in Melbourne in 2012.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *My Brilliant Career* (1979), Fi1m 82, as Aunt Gussie — [page](https://film.one/film/my-brilliant-career.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *The Flying Doctors* (1986), series, as Edith Cranston, Ruth
- *Departure* (1986), as Sylvia Swift
- *Kindred Spirits* (1984), as Miss Morris
- *Return to Eden* (1983), series, as Katy Basklain
- *My Brilliant Career* (1979), as Aunt Gussie — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/my-brilliant-career.md)
- *The Getting of Wisdom* (1977), as Miss Chapman
- *The Office Picnic* (1972), Actor
- *La agonía de ser madre* (1970), Screenplay
- *Macbeth* (1965), as First Witch
- *Homicide* (1964), series, as Mrs. Ryan

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