Linda Hartley-Clark

Linda Hartley-Clark
Born (1967-12-28) 28 December 1967 (age 56)
Australia
Other namesLinda Hartley
OccupationActress
Years active1981–present
Spouse
John Clark
(m. 1989)

Linda Hartley-Clark (born 28 December 1967[citation needed]) is an Australian actress, known for her role as Kerry Bishop on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1989 to 1990. She had early lead roles in Cornflakes for Tea, The Bush Gang, and Home, before appearing in The Flying Doctors miniseries as Diana Daniels, and Prisoner as Roach Waters in 1986.

Career

Hartley attended Macleod High School in Melbourne.[1] Hartley began singing and dancing from a young age, before her agent persuaded her to give acting a chance.[2] She was a back-up dancer and singer on the short-lived Tonight with Bert Newton show.[2] She also had a dancing lead role in a production of 42nd Street, which was later postponed. She turned down the narrator role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to accept a role in The Young Doctors.[2]

Hartley secured her first lead acting role when she was 13 years old in the children's miniseries Cornflakes for Tea.[2] A year later, she played the lead in ABC-TV miniseries The Bush Gang.[2] She then appeared in another lead role in the 1983 series Home.[1] Hartley plays Pauline, one of the residents of the "modern" orphanage, and had to learn to weld for the role.[1] This was followed by a starring role in the South Australian Film Corporation film The Fire in the Stone.[2] Hartley played Diana Daniels in The Flying Doctors miniseries, alongside her future Neighbours co-star Stefan Dennis.[2]

She played Gloria Slater in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, before she was cast as Rachel "Roach" Waters in Prisoner in 1986.[3] That same year, Hartley appeared in While You're Down There, a sketch and stand-up comedy show.[4] Hartley returned to Neighbours in 1989 as series regular Kerry Bishop. After contract negotiations with the production company broke down, Hartley left the serial in 1990.[5] She played Angie in the small-budget Melbourne film Closer and Closer Apart, which was made in 1989 and released in 1992.[6][7]

Hartley-Clark had a guest stint in Neighbours in 2005 playing Kerry's lookalike Gabrielle Walker.[8] She also provided voiceovers for Kerry's diary entries which are read by her daughter Sky Mangel (Stephanie McIntosh) in 2004 and 2006.[8]

In 2023, Hartley-Clark appeared on the Talking Prisoner podcast.[9]

Personal life

Hartley-Clark lives in Melbourne. She married musician John Clark, a former drummer with Craig McLachlan's band, Check 1–2, in 1989.[5] They have two children. She also works as a relationship counsellor, having qualified with a PhD from Deakin University.[10]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1981 The Bush Gang 5 episodes
1981 Cornflakes for Tea Trish Series lead
1983 Home Pauline 6 episodes
1984 The Fire in the Stone Sophie Andropoulos TV Movie
1984 Carson's Law Peggy Roche 4 episodes
1985 The Flying Doctors Diana Daniels Miniseries
1985 Neighbours Gloria Slater Guest
1986 Prisoner Rachel "Roach" Waters Recurring
1986 While You're Down There Various 6 episodes
1989 The Flying Doctors Linda Gallagher Episode: "The Storyteller"
1989–1990 Neighbours Kerry Bishop Series regular
1992 Closer and Closer Apart Angie Video/film
1992 WYSIWYG Chaz/Linda/Saloon Keeper/Barbie 5 episodes
1993 Anna Lee: Headcase Pippa TV film
1998 Breakers
1998 All Saints Linda Taylor Episodes: "Posession", "Out of Control"
1999 Grange Hill Airport Check In Episode: #22.7
2005 Neighbours Gabrielle Walker Recurring

References

  1. ^ a b c Morris, Jill (15 July 1982). "Linda welds together her career". The Age. Retrieved 5 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Cooney, Jenny (13 April 1985). "Linda learns fast!". TV Week. p. 73.
  3. ^ "Green Guide Thursday TV". The Age. 29 May 1986. Retrieved 5 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
  4. ^ Hooks, Barbara (22 May 1986). "Comedian falls out of the cafe into the mire". The Age. Retrieved 5 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
  5. ^ a b Brown, David; Devlyn, Darren (9 June 1990). "Why Linda's quitting the neighborhood". TV Week. p. 11.
  6. ^ Murphy, Jim (11 June 1992). "New releases". The Age. Retrieved 5 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
  7. ^ Murphy, Jim (11 June 1992). "Video". The Age. Retrieved 5 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.Free access icon
  8. ^ a b Richards, Holly (16 August 2010). "Neighbours: Where are they now?". The West Australian. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  9. ^ "Talking Prisoner Cell Block H EP 37 Interview with Linda Hartley (Inmate Roach Waters)". 25 June 2024.
  10. ^ "Publications | Dr Linda Hartley-Clark".

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