Gerda Nicolson
Birthday: 1937-11-11
Place of Birth: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Synopsis
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Gerda Nicolson, (11 November 1937 – 12 June 1992) was an Australian theatre and television actor best known for several long-running television roles. Nicolson first reached wide audiences through her long-running role in Australian Broadcasting Corporation daily soap opera Bellbird. After leaving that series she had a regular role in police drama Bluey (1976). However perhaps her most famous role was as Governor Ann Reynolds in the popular Australian television soap opera Prisoner. Her second part in the show (she had already played a corrupt officer in earlier episodes) Nicolson played the role from 1983 until the series ended in 1986. The series found international cult success in the 1990s and 2000s. Nicolson also appeared in Neighbours as Robyn Taylor, whom almost had an affair with Harold Bishop. Nicolson collapsed in her dressing room prior to going on stage for a theatre performance in 1992 and died in hospital 10 days later. The cause of death was a massive stroke. She was 54 years old.
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Acting
Bangkok Hilton
as Lady Faulkner
This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes and tells the story of a young woman who goes in search of the father she has never known. Her search takes her from Australia to England and then on to Bangkok. There she meets up with a charming young man, Arkie Regan, who plants drugs in her luggage and leaves her to her fate when the authorities find them during a routine search at the airport. Following her imprisonment in the notorious Bangkok Hilton prison she awaits the decision of the authorities on whether she should face the death penalty.
Next of Kin
as Connie
After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.
Gallipoli
as Rose Hamilton
As World War I rages, brave and youthful Australians Archy and Frank—both agile runners—become friends and enlist in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps together. They later find themselves part of the Dardanelles Campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, a brutal eight-month conflict which pit the British and their allies against the Ottoman Empire and left over 500,000 men dead.
Prisoner: Cell Block H
as Ann Reynolds
Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
