Kerry Michelle Armstrong was born on 12 September 1958 and is an Australian actress and author.
21 Facts About Kerry Armstrong
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Kerry Armstrong is one of only two actresses to win two Australian Film Institute Awards in the same year, winning Best Actress in a Leading Role for Lantana and Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama for SeaChange in 2001.
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Kerry Armstrong appeared in both acting and presenting roles on Australian television in the 1970s and early 1980.
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Kerry Armstrong appeared as a GTV-9 weather girl, and then in a dramatic acting role, appearing as Lynn 'Wonky' Warner, an original character in Network Ten women's prison drama Prisoner.
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Kerry Armstrong then switched to another ongoing role in drama series Skyways for 49 episodes.
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In 1981 Kerry Armstrong married rock band Australian Crawl's rhythm guitarist Brad Robinson.
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Kerry Armstrong moved to the United States in 1981, where she studied under Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen at the HB Studio in New York City on an acting scholarship.
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Kerry Armstrong only had a professional arrangement with Bernstein, but her long distance from Robinson dissolved their relationship.
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Cusack, Robbins and Kerry Armstrong auditioned for Saturday Night Live but only Kerry Armstrong was offered a part, which she declined.
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Kerry Armstrong guest starred in the 1984 Murder, Kerry Armstrong Wrote episode "Death Takes a Curtain Call".
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In 1987, Kerry Armstrong returned to Australia upon the death of her grandmother.
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In 1991 Kerry Armstrong was nominated for an AFI award for Best Actress for her role in the film Hunting which was released by Paramount in the US.
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In 1998, Kerry Armstrong was offered the role of Heather Jelly in the television series SeaChange, the ever-devoted but long-suffering wife of corrupt local mayor Bob.
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When SeaChange ended in 2000, Kerry Armstrong continued on with her theatre work and appeared in Lantana, the award-winning Ray Lawrence film starring Anthony LaPaglia, Barbara Hershey, Geoffrey Rush, Glenn Robbins and Vince Colosimo.
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Kerry Armstrong won the Inside Film Award, Film Critics Circle of Australia Award and the AFI Award for her Lantana performance.
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In 2002, Kerry Armstrong joined the cast of medico-legal drama MDA on ABC alongside Jason Donovan and Shane Bourne.
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Kerry Armstrong wrote a self-help book, The Circles, released on 1 November 2003.
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Kerry Armstrong described the book as a practical exercise in empowering people.
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In May 2008, Kerry Armstrong told the Herald Sun the book's US publisher, Beyond Words, had received a call from a large book club in the US which wanted 21,000 copies of the book.
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Kerry Armstrong has worked with several charitable organisations including Childwise, Big hART, and Cure for Life Foundation which sponsors research into brain tumour treatments.
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Kerry Armstrong has publicly opposed the War in Iraq, and in protest, sat on the steps of the Victorian Parliament in a purple bra to draw attention to her cause.