---
name: "Robina Beard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robina-beard"
fi1m_id: "robina-beard"
imdb_id: "nm0063934"
tmdb_id: 1547432
wikidata_id: "Q117769463"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1938"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:31:01.000294+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."
---

# Robina Beard

## Identity

Robina Beard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robina-beard
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robina-beard
- **IMDb ID:** nm0063934
- **TMDB ID:** 1547432
- **Wikidata ID:** Q117769463
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robina_Beard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117769463, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063934/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1547432

Actor. Born 1 January 1938 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1938, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robina_Beard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117769463, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0063934/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1547432

## Biography

Robina Beard is an English-born Australian actress, dancer and choreographer. Born in Twickenham in 1938, she migrated to Sydney with her family in 1949 and began her professional career in 1955 dancing in the J. C. Williamson production of the musical *Can-Can*.

She is best known for playing Madge the manicurist in long-running Australian and New Zealand television advertisements for Palmolive dishwashing liquid from 1968. Beard has appeared in numerous stage productions and Australian television series, including *Number 96*, *G.P.*, *Home and Away* and *All Saints*. In 2026 she played Edna in the film *Insidious: Out of the Further*.

In 2011 she received the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the arts, particularly through dance, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Dance Awards.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Insidious: Out of the Further* (2026), Fi1m 55, as Edna — [page](https://film.one/film/insidious-out-of-the-further.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Insidious: Out of the Further* (2026), as Edna — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/insidious-out-of-the-further.md)
- *Protection* (2018), as Witchy
- *A Moody Christmas* (2012), series, as Gwen Dawes
- *Hold Please* (2006), as Jane's mum
- *The Flying Doctors* (1986), series, as Dot Collins
- *Dot and the Kangaroo* (1977), as (voice)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Medal of the Order of Australia 2011: Medal of the Order of Australia (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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