Diana McLean

Diana McLean is an Australian stage and television actress.

Acting career

Television

In 1969, McClean appeared in an episode of the comedy series Good Morning Mr Doubleday.[1]

In the early 1970s, she appeared in an episode of the classic Australian police series Division 4,[2] and an episode of Boney.[3] She also appeared as "Dorothy Dunlop" in the Australian series Number 96.[4]

In the mid 1970s, she appeared as "Helen McGuire" in nine episodes of the series Ben Hall,[5] and then as "Sister Vivienne Jeffries" from 1978 until 1982 in the series The Young Doctors.[6][7]

In 1999 she played the part of "Bess O'Brien" in Neighbours.[6]

Film

In 1982, she appeared in the film, Early Frost.[8] [9]

Theatre

Her work in the theatre has included The Cold Child in 2006 and Love & Money in 2007.[10][11] In 2014, she reprised her role of "Vera" 4000 Miles, for which she was nominated for the "Best Actress in a Leading Role in an Independent Production" Sydney Theatre Award in 2013.[12][13] She toured Australia in 2017 and 2018, playing "Florence Foster Jenkins" in the stage comedy Glorious. [14]

She also appeared in the play Air in 2018.[15]

Other work

In 2010 she attended a book launch[16] by screen writer, director and producer Alan Coleman. His autobiography, One Door Shuts was launched at the Hotel Bondi, Sydney on 10 January 2010.

In 2014, McLean explained her voice techniques in a video called The other side of the glass.[17]

In 2018, she appeared on the Australian programme The Daily Edition to discuss her career.[18]

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gollark: Against scanning like that? The government wants *more* of it.
gollark: It's better than forcing all content through even less auditable server side filters but still fairly bad.
gollark: The generality of this solution and the fact that they'll probably keep the exact details private for "security"-through-obscurity reasons also means that, as I have written here (https://osmarks.net/osbill/) in a blog post tangentially mentioning it, someone could just feed it image hashes for, say, anti-government memes and find out who is saving those.
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References
  1. "Good Morning Mr Doubleday". www.classicaustraliantv.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  2. "Division 4 episodes". www.classicaustraliantv.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  3. "Boney episodes". www.classicaustraliantv.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  4. "Number 96 on ASO - Australia's audio and visual heritage online". aso.gov.au. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  5. Webmaster. "Ben Hall | Nostalgia Central". Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  6. O'Hanlon, Paul (17 June 2016). "The Young Doctors: laughter medicine of yesteryear". Australian Times. Blue Sky Publications. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  7. The Young Doctors, retrieved 2019-08-15
  8. "Early Frost (1982) | movie | videospace". www.videospace.fi. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  9. Early Frost (1982) Trailer, retrieved 2019-10-16
  10. Rose, Colin (17 July 2006). "The Cold Child". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  11. Dunne, Stephen (26 September 2007). "Slow unravelling of imperfect lives". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  12. "2013—Nominations and Winners". Sydney Theatre Awards. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  13. Gioia, Michael (20 December 2013). "Tim Minchin, Tony Sheldon, Cate Blanchett and More Among 2013 Sydney Theatre Award Nominees". Playbill. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  14. Blake, Elissa (30 August 2017). "How Diana McLean sings as amusingly as Florence Foster Jenkins in Glorious". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  15. Simmonds, Diana (24 June 2018). "Air". Stage Noise. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  16. Alan Coleman Book Launch Part 2 of 3 filmed by Doug Moody., retrieved 2019-10-07
  17. DIANA McLEAN - The other side of the glass, retrieved 2019-08-15
  18. Diana McLean's Latest Project, retrieved 2019-08-14
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