14 Facts About Michele Fawdon

Michele Fawdon was an English-born Australian actress and singer.

Michele Fawdon is known for her roles in TV serials Matlock Police, The Unisexers and A Country Practice.

Michele Fawdon was born on 15 December 1947 in Harrow, London, as the oldest of three children of Yvonne and John Fawdon, a bomber pilot for BOAC.

Michele Fawdon had polio as a child and took ballet lessons to strengthen her leg.

Michele Fawdon attended Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts, a theatrical boarding school in Sussex from the age of 12, and completed an examination by London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Michele Fawdon studied at the Ensemble Theatre for three years.

Michele Fawdon's father had been a bomber pilot in WWII and trained pilots after the war until the family settled in Tamworth where he worked for the CSIRO cloud seeding.

Michele Fawdon's first television role was an appearance in the fourth episode of the drama series, You Can't See 'Round Corners, which was broadcast from July 1967.

Michele Fawdon is a singing actress who hasn't been out of work one day since she arrived from England.

Michele Fawdon played the role of Australian 19th-century painter Jane Sutherland in the July 1985 ABC-TV mini-series, One Summer Again, which focusses on the Heidelberg School of artists of the 1880s.

In 1990 Michele Fawdon appeared as Rose Peterson in the New Zealand film, The Rogue Stallion.

Michele Fawdon played Judge Cath in four episodes of Marshall Law.

Michele Fawdon met her domestic partner, Geoff Jenkins, when both appeared in Manning Clark's History of Australia: The Musical in 1988.

Michele Fawdon died on 23 May 2011, from cancer, aged 63.