Diane Craig
Diane Craig | |
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Born | Diane Mary Craig 1949 (age 74–75) |
Other names | Di Craig |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1970–2013 |
Spouse |
Diane Mary Craig (born 1949), sometimes credited as Di Craig, is a Northern Irish-born Australian actress best known for her performances in film and television.
She was born in County Down, and since 1971 has been married to award-winning Australian actor and comedian Garry McDonald.
Career
Film
She attended the prestigious
The Highest Honor (1982), Travelling North (1987) and A Sting in the Tale
(1989).
Television
Craig has also appeared on the small screen in numerous serials, mini-series and telemovies. She is probably best known for the long-running roles in The Restless Years and E Street (replacing actress Penny Cook as Dr. Elly Fielding), as well as appearing several times in the cult television series Prisoner. Craig's last long-running role was as Deborah McManus in the 2008 series Out of the Blue.[1]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1970 | Ned Kelly | Maggie Kelly | Feature film |
1970 | No Roses for Michael | Short film | |
1977 | The Mango Tree | Miss Pringle | Feature film |
1978 | Road Toll | Short film | |
1980 | And Sometimes I Feel Like I'm Only 18 | Short film | |
1980 | The Applicant | Herself (as Di Craig) | Short film |
1980 | The Tape Recorder | Short film | |
1981 | Double Deal | Miss Stevens | Feature film |
1982 | The Highest Honor (aka Southern Cross) |
Mrs. Page | Feature film |
1984 | Tell Us in Your Own Words | Short film | |
1987 | Travelling North | Sophie | Feature film |
1989 | A Sting in the Tale | Diane Lane | Feature film |
1998 | The Cowboy | Short film | |
2005 | Marti's Party | Trish | Short film |
2007 | One of the Lucky Ones | Neighbour | Short film |
2009 | Emergence | Margaret | Short film |
2009 | In Her Skin | Joy | Feature film |
2013 | 101 Cupcakes | Matilda[2] | Short film |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Type |
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1971 | Dead Men Running | Regular role: Teresa Doherty | TV series, 6 episodes |
1971 | The Godfathers | Guest role | TV series, 1 episode |
1971-1974 | Matlock Police | Guest roles: Madeleine Reynolds/Christine Anderson/Kate Wilson/Val Hudson | TV series, 4 episodes -"The End of the Season" -"Grinning George" -"Vengeance" -"Two to One Against" |
1972 | Crisis | Role unknown | TV Pilot |
1972 | Homicide | Guest role: Trish Langley | TV series, 1 episode " Change of Heart "
|
1972 | Snake Gully with Dad and Dave | Regular role: Mabel Smith | TV series, 8 episodes -"Snake Gully with Dad and Dave" -"That Old Flame of Mine" -"Husbandry Is Not Just a Golden Ring" -"Lest We Er Forget" -"Hold That Tiger" -"Tis All in the Mind" -"The Hotel Dave" |
1973-1975 | Division 4 | Recurring Guest role: Jenny Franklin | TV series, 5 episodes -"Voice of the Gun" -"The Criminal Type" -"Triangle-Sergeant Babbe" -"A Sense of Duty - Part 2" |
1973 | Boney | Guest role: Marion | TV series, 1 episode "Boney and the Powder Trail" |
1973 | Ryan | Guest role: Lacey Glen | TV series, 1 episode "A Little Something Special" |
1974 | And The Big Men Fly | Regular role: Lil | ABC TV series, 6 episodes |
1974 | This Love Affair | Guest role | ABC TV series, 1 episode: "Seven Tenths of a Second" |
1975-1976 | Certain Women | Recurring role: Majorie Faber | ABC TV series, 27 episodes |
1977 | Hotel Story | Guest role | TV series, 1 episode |
1977 | Roses Bloom Twice | Support role | TV movie |
1977; 1980 | Young Ramsay | Guest role: Tess Cameron | TV series, 1 episode "A Kid is a Kid" (1977) |
1978-1979 | Cop Shop | Recurring role: Alison Finlay | TV series, 27 episodes |
1978 | Chopper Squad | Guest role: Jenny | TV series, 1 episode "The Big Trip" |
1978-1979 | The Sullivans | Recurring role: Pamela/Pamela Summers | TV series, 28 episodes #289-291 & #410-434 |
1978-1979 | The Restless Years | Recurring role: Gail Lawrence | TV series, 43 episodes |
1978 | The Newman Shame | Ginger | TV movie |
1979 | Mr Squiggle and Friends | Guest Host - Herself | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
1979 | Skyways | Guest role: Catherine Tissot | TV series, 1 episode: "Catnip" |
1980 | Celebrity Tattletales | Guest Panel: Herself & Garry McDonald | TV series, 3 episodes |
1980 | Cop Shop | Guest role: Eve Kadar | TV series, 2 episodes |
1980 | The Great Australian Comedy | Role unknown | TV Pilot |
1980-1985 | Prisoner (aka Prisoner Cell Block H) | Recurring role: Jacki Nolan/Anita Selby/Sarah Forrest | TV series, 22 episodes -Sarah Forrest / Jacki Nolan -Sister Anita Selby |
1980-1981 | The Young Doctors | Recurring role: Diane Brooke | TV series, 6 episodes |
1981 | Bellamy | Guest role: Connie | TV series, 1 episode 17: "A Minor Charge of Murder" "A Minor Charge of Murder" |
1981 | Holiday Island | Guest role: Marie-Claude | TV series, 1 episode "Treasure Shop" |
1981 | The World Around Us | Herself | TV series, 1 episode: "Stress – It Wasn't Meant To Be Easy" |
1981 | The 1981 Australian Film & Television Awards (Sammys) | Guest - Herself | ABC TV special |
1982; 1983; 1987; 1991 | A Country Practice | Guest roles: Diane Irving/Deborah Townsend/Carmel Hutchins/Judy Harper | TV series, 10 episodes |
1982 | The Don Lane Show | Guest - Herself with 'Taurus Rising' cast: Alan Cassell, Andrew Clarke & Georgie Sterling | TV series, 1 episode |
1982 | Taurus Rising | Regular role: Libby Hilton | TV series |
1983 | For Love Or Money | Herself | Film documentary |
1983 | Scales of Justice | Suport role: Meredith | ABC TV miniseries, 1 episode "The Numbers" "The Numbers" |
1983 | All The Rivers Run
|
Recurring role: Dorothy Barrett | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
1984 | Carson's Law | Guest role: Anne Preston | TV series, 2 episodes |
1984 | Special Squad | Guest role | TV series, 1 episode |
1985 | The Henderson Kids | Recurring role: Alice Henderson | TV series, 2 episodes |
1987 | Have a Go | Herself - Guest Judge | TV series, 3 episodes |
1987 | Willing and Abel | Guest role | TV series, 1 episode |
1988 | Mother and Son | Guest role: Delores | ABC TV series, 1 episode "The Surprise" |
1988 | True Believers | Recurring role: Elsie | ABC TV miniseries, 6 episodes |
1988 | After Marcuse | Liz | ABC TV movie |
1988 | Rafferty's Rules | Guest role | TV series, 1 episode |
1988 | Stringer | Guest role | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
1989 | Mission: Impossible | Guest role: Lady Michelle Faulkner | TV series, 1 episode US/Australia "The Lion" |
1989 | Travelling Man
|
Role unknown | TV movie |
1989 | Acropolis Now | Guest role: Miss Joan Wilson | TV series, 1 episode |
1989 | Chances | Barbara Taylor | TV Pilot (never screened on TV) |
1989 | In Melbourne Today | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1989 | Living With the Law | Role unknown | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
1990 | Family and Friends
|
Regular role: Pamela Chandler | TV series |
1990 | The Flying Doctors | Guest role: Marion Burgess | TV series, 1 episode "A Little Tenderness" |
1991 | In Sydney Today | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1991-1993 | E Street | Regular role: Dr. Elly Fielding | TV series, 153 episodes |
1992 | Couchman in Australia | Guest - Herself with 'E Street' cast Melissa Tkautz & Bruce Samazan | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
1993 | The Big Breakfast | Guest - Herself with E Street cast Andrew Williams, Joanna Lockwood | TV series, 1 episode |
1993 | Law of the Land | Guest role | TV series, 2 episodes |
1994 | At Home | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1994 | Ernie and Denise | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1994; 1996 | Good Morning Australia | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1994 | Love Rules | Host/Presenter | TV series |
1995 | This Is Your Life: Garry McDonald | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1995 | Today Tonight | Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1995 | Home and Away | Recurring role: Theresa Lynch | TV series, 22 episodes |
1995-1996 | Heartbreak High | Regular role: June Dyson | TV series, 24 episodes |
1996 | Midday with Kerri-Anne | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1996 | Monday to Friday | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1996 | Medivac | Guest role: Mrs. Flynn | TV series, 1 episode |
1997 | The 1997 Annual TV Week Logie Awards | Herself - Audience member | TV Special |
1997; 2000 | Good Morning Australia | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
1997 | Murder Call | Guest role: Diane Cochrane | TV series, 1 episode |
1998 | Never Tell Me Never | Shirley Shepherd | TV movie |
1998 | Wildside | Guest role: Robyn Stark | ABC TV series, 2 episodes |
1999; 2001 | All Saints | Guest role: Colleen Collins | TV series, 1 episode |
2000; 2002 | Good Morning Australia | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
2001 | The 43rd Annual TV Week Logie Awards | Guest - Herself as Audience member | TV special |
2001 | All Saints | Recurring role: Sophia Hanrahan/Sophie Hanrahan | TV series, 3 episodes |
2001 | People Dimensions | Guest - Herself | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
2002; 2015 | Australian Story | Herself | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
2002 | Good Morning Australia | Guest - Herself | TV series, 1 episode |
2008-2009 | Out of the Blue | Regular role: Deborah McManus | TV series, 75 episodes |
2009 | Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities | Recurring role: Barbara Mackay | TV series, 3 episodes |
2009 | Packed to the Rafters | Guest role: Majery | TV series, 1 episode "Brave New World" |
2011 | Crownies | Guest role: Carolyn Fletcher | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
2012 | Howzat! Kerry Packer's War | Guest role: Well Dressed Woman at SCG | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
2015 | Australian Story | Herself | ABC TV series, 1 episode |
References
- IMDb
- ^ ALLERTON, MARGOT AND VEITCH "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Australian Showbiz" published hardback by Sunshine Books division of Allans Books