Lyndel Rowe is an Australian actress of stage, television and film, who is best known for her work with the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Sydney Theatre Company and the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and for her role as Karen Fox/Hamilton in the television soap opera Sons and Daughters.

Lyndel Rowe
NationalityAustralian
OccupationActress
Known forSons and Daughters, theatre roles

Career

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Ms. Rowe joined the Union Repertory Company (now the Melbourne Theatre Company) - in productions including Patrick White's, The Season at Sarsaparilla, Waltz of the Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Ghost Train; toured Australia with J.C. Williamson's Goodnight Mrs. Puffin (by Arthur Lovegrove), with Irene Handl.

Travelling to England she studied at the Royal Court Theatre, with George Devine and Keith Johnstone. Then a production with the International Theatre Company of The Seventh Seal (Painting on Wood). From there into repertory and into the company of a West End lunch-time theatre, TheatreScope, doing weekly seasons of one act Tennessee Williams, Ionesco, Anouilh etc.

Invited back to the Melbourne Theatre Company at Russell Street; roles including: Nancy - The Knack, Raymonde - Flea in her Ear, Irina - Three Sisters, Mary Warren - The Crucible, Margery Pinchwife - The Country Wife, Sheila - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Sandy - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Clarice - Servant of Two Masters, Marina - Pericles, Pip - Moby Dick, Grace - London Assurance, Charlotte - The Magistrate, Celemene - The Misanthrope, Gwendolyn - The Importance of Being Earnest.

Productions with the Sydney Theatre Company including the roles of: Kate - The Taming of the Shrew, Rose Trelawney - Trelawney of the Wells, Sonya - Uncle Vanya, Marianne - Tartuffe, Charlotte - The Real Thing.

With the South Australian Theatre Company: Phoebe - As You Like It, Daphne - Old King Cole, Jill - David Williamson's Handful of Friends. At the Playbox, Sydney, played Lucy in the musical - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. With Nimrod Street (now Belvoir St.), Gwendolyn - Stoppard's Travesties, and an Australian tour of Doctor in Love.

In England with the Liverpool Playhouse: Anna - Old Times, Dianne - Absent Friends, Raymonde - A Flea in Her Ear.

Filmography

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FILM

Year Title Role Type
1985 Short Changed Councillor Feature film
1986 Playing Beattie Bow Kathy Feature film

TELEVISION

Year Title Role Type
1961 Quiet Night unknown role TV movie
1962 Light Me a Lucifer Barbara Harmon TV movie
1964 Consider Your Verdict Helen Humphries TV series, 1 episode
1965 Compact Margaret TV series UK, 1 episode
1966 BBC Play of the Month Jessie / Letta TV series UK, 2 episodes
1967 Australian Playhouse unknown role TV series, 1 episode
1967 Hey You! Sharlene TV series, 1 episode
1968-1976 Homicide Patty Bourke / Doreen / Carol Gould / Vicki Kramer (as Lyndall Rowe) TV series, 4 episodes
1968 Shadow on the Wall Lin Tan ABC Teleplay
1969 The Cheerful Cuckold Shirley ABC Teleplay
1969 The Torrents unknown role ABC Teleplay
1969-1973 Division 4 Jenny Armstrong / June / Norma Miles / Lorraine Hudson TV series, 4 episodes
1970 The Juggler unknown role TV movie
1970 Delta Jenny TV series, 1 episode
1971;1976 Matlock Police Judy Morrow / Carol Price TV series, 2 episodes
1971 Z-Cars Jenny Swainson TV series UK, 2 episodes
1971 Kate Joyce Moore TV series UK, 1 episode
1971 Father and Sons Fenichka TV miniseries UK, 4 episodes
1974 Moving On Anne TV movie
1974 Silent Number Sharon TV series, 1 episode
1975 The Last of the Australians Maria Agostini TV series, Season 2 Episode 12: "The Stone Final Utter Bloody End"
1976 Tandarra Lizzy TV series, 1 episode
1976 Solo One Louise Duncan (as Lyn Rowe) TV series, 1 episode 12. "The Bike"
1977 The 19th Annual TV Week Logie Awards Herself TV special
1978 Cop Shop Jessie Turner TV series, 2 episodes
1979 Banana Bender Maureen TV movie
1981 The Gentle Touch Staff Nurse TV series UK, 1 episode
1984-1985 Sons and Daughters Karen Fox / Karen Hamilton TV series, 73 episodes
1985 I Can't Get Started[1] Valerie TV movie
1987 Melba Blanche Marchesi TV miniseries, 6 episodes
1988 Touch the Sun: Princess Kate Anne McLelland ABC TV movie
2003 Blue Heelers Miss Stamford (as Lyndal Rowe) TV series, 1 episode

Television

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  • In England, played Fenichka in the BBC's classical series of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, guest episodes of Z-Cars, The Gentle Touch, Princess Kate with Phylis Calvert, and BBC play of the month Death of a Salesman with Rod Steiger.
  • In Australia, the mini-series Melba and guest roles in various ABC and Crawfords series. In more recent years she guested in Blue Heelers. Her biggest and most well-known TV role was probably that of Karen Fox (later Hamilton) in Grundy's Sons and Daughters in 1984 and 1985.

Ms. Rowe has been awarded a Television Society Award and a Logie Award.

In 2004 appeared with Lewis Fiander in Afterplay under the direction of Malcolm Robertson, a UTRC veteran, at FortyFive Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.

Present Interests

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Lyndel's other base is London, where she has been writing novels, short stories and a screenplay. She has essays published in Meanjin, and twice chosen for publication in The Best Australian Essays

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