Wendy Hughes
Wendy Hughes (29 July 1952 – 8 March 2014) was an Australian actress known for her work in theatre, film and television. Hughes was an award-winning actress. Her career spanned more than forty years and established her reputation as one of Australia's finest and most prolific actors. Her biggest role was in Lonely Hearts, played in 1982 (this film was the beginning of a long collaboration with director Paul Cox). In her later career she acted in Happy New Year along with stars Peter Falk and Charles Durning. In 1993 she played Dr. Carol Blythe, M. E. in Homicide: Life on the Street. In the late 1990s, she starred in State Coroner and Paradise Road.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 15.349 |
Birthday | 1952-07-29 |
Place of Birth | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Also Known As |
1991
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
5.3/37
Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the h...
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Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1975
Sidecar Racers
2.5/2
You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no brakes! Death defying daredevils burning up the track in thr...
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Sidecar Racers
2001
The Man Who Sued God
6.6/64
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance m...
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The Man Who Sued God
1994
Princess Caraboo
5.417/24
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims...
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Princess Caraboo
1979
My Brilliant Career
6.129/66
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married...
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My Brilliant Career
1989
The Heist
5.1/17
Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.
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The Heist
1974
Jock Petersen
4/2
Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurr...
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Jock Petersen
1978
Newsfront
5.6/11
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing tim...
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Newsfront
1987
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
5.2/4
A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a cros...
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Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train
1982
Lonely Hearts
5.5/6
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
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Lonely Hearts
1988
Boundaries of the Heart
0/0
A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at h...
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Boundaries of the Heart
2008
The View from Greenhaven
4.2/3
A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.
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The View from Greenhaven
2009
Salvation
5/3
Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her bran...
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Salvation
1979
Kostas
2/1
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Kostas
1985
An Indecent Obsession
4.5/4
Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing...
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An Indecent Obsession
1988
Shadows of the Peacock
3.5/2
The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.
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Shadows of the Peacock
1997
Paradise Road
6.463/82
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during Wor...
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Paradise Road
1983
Careful, He Might Hear You
6.1/12
Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest e...
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Careful, He Might Hear You
1976
Is There Anybody There?
7/1
A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun an...
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Is There Anybody There?
1985
I Can't Get Started
0/0
Stalwart aussie actor John Waters is wannabe-novelist Robert Marks. No one can fault his persistence and application in the past - he really wants the...
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I Can't Get Started
1985
Remember Me
0/0
A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental institution. She is torn between her still strong desire...
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Remember Me
1989
Luigi’s Ladies
5/1
Shaken by the stockmarket crash of ’87 … plus a few other distractions like attempted murder, flirtatious affairs and a lunatic, knife wielding chef …...
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Luigi’s Ladies
1978
Puzzle
0/0
Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.
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Puzzle
2008
Not Quite Hollywood
6.882/85
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock...
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Not Quite Hollywood
1980
Touch and Go
0/0
Three attractive socialites working for charity turn to robbery to keep a special primary school for underprivileged children open.
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Touch and Go
1984
My First Wife
4.5/4
My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer the...
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My First Wife
1977
High Rolling
0/0
Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a dop...
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High Rolling
2006
The Caterpillar Wish
4.8/4
A young girl's view on belonging and loss.
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The Caterpillar Wish
1990
Donor
5.333/3
Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a friend is strangled by an elderly patient, who runs...
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Donor
1977
The Alternative
2/1
Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take l...
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The Alternative
1987
Happy New Year
5.3/8
Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old...
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Happy New Year
1982
Duet for Four
1/1
A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want to take...
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Duet for Four
1981
Hoodwink
4.4/5
Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves star...
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Hoodwink
1982
A Dangerous Summer
4/3
Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certa...
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