Wendy Playfair


Wendy Playfair is an Australian radio, television and film actress, best known for her role in serials and telmovies, she is best known internationally as the Barbara Cartland-style elderly Minnie Donovanin the television series Prisoner, complete with pink outfits and prissy classy accent in 1983 and 1984, and guest roles as Audrey Long and Evelyn Grey in Home and Away in 2005 and 2009. Her film roles include Accidents Happen starring Geena Davis

Biography

Early life

Playfair was born in Woollahra, New South Wales to Edmund Strathmore Creer Playfair and Kathleen Ryrie née Campbell. She was the third of four sisters. Eve and Judy were born before her and Susan was born after her. The Playfair family were well-to-do, socially prominent and in the meat trade. She was educated at Ascham School in Edgecliff, New South Wales and married James Williams at All Saints Woollahra Anglican Church in 6 July, 1951.

Career

In radio she worked for the ABC and consistently in morning serials for Grace Gibson, as well as in many radio plays. Playfair received a Macquarie Award. Playfair has been a staple on the small screen since 1962, in series such as Homicide, Hunter, The Young Doctors, Return to Eden, A Country Practice and All Saints. Her film credits include "Ride a Wild Pony", the only Walt Disney film ever produced in Australia. Playfair's most recent television appearance was in Packed to the Rafters in 2013.

Filmography