Olivia Hamnett


Olivia Jane Hamnett was an English actress known for numerous television roles in Australia, including Meg Fulton in The Sullivans, Dr. Kathryn Elaine "Kate" Peterson in Prisoner and Joanna Randall in Return to Eden

Career

Born in 1943, in St Helens, Lancashire, England Hamnett was a actress, she started her career in her native England, where she had guest roles on television programs including Department s and Randall and Hopkirk in 1969 but found greater success in Australia in television and film after emigrating there in the 1970s.
She was probably best known for her performances in the television dramas Prisoner as Dr. Kate Peterson and The Sullivans as Meg Fulton.
She also played major roles on such series as Rush, Bellbird, the original miniseries of Return to Eden, The Power, The Passion, Pacific Drive and Neighbours. Hamnett portrayed Richard Chamberlain's wife in The Last Wave, and played Ricky Schroder's mother in The Earthling.

Personal life

Married to actor Peter Regan, Hamnett died in 2001 from a brain tumour.