Wendy Blacklock AM was born on 20 January 1932 and is an Australian-born retired theatre actress and theatrical entrepreneur, radio and television actress, comedienne, producer, writer, singer, dancer and choreographer.
12 Facts About Wendy Blacklock
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Wendy Blacklock remains best known to small screen audience's for her role in Number 96 as Edith MacDonald alongside Mike Dorsey.
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Wendy Blacklock was born on 20 January 1932 in Sydney, New South Wales to David Wendy Blacklock, manager of sports company Slazenger and Lillian Ava Miller.
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Wendy Blacklock started to take small screens roles in the latter 50s, and working on screen until the late 1970s, she remained active in stage roles and theatre producing her preferred genre for seven decades until the mid-2010s.
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Wendy Blacklock founded the theatre company production firm Performing Lines for the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and was instrumental in establishing Aboriginal Australian theatre internationally.
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Wendy Blacklock has two daughters Nicole and Lisa and at least two grandchildren.
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Wendy Blacklock is a noted comedienne, she toured England and worked in TV, appearing with luminaries such as Benny Hill and Bernard Bresslaw and opposite Prunella Scales.
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Wendy Blacklock's acting career began on the stage and from 1951 and she is an inductee into the live performance Hall of Fame, she spent two years in England acting in repertory theatre, before returning to Australia where she had had a solid career in the theatre which have included stage tours both locally and in New Zealand; she was a regular cast member of the satirical revues staged at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre in the 1960s.
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Wendy Blacklock has featured in numerous productions by such playwrights as David Williamson and Dorothy Hewett.
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Wendy Blacklock, is a theatrical entrepreneur who founded the "Australian Content Department" in 1982 association the renowned Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, and subsequently in 1990 the company Performing Lines an arts producer and presenter company, with the aim of coaching and showcasing new productions and training artists for stage.
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In 1992, Wendy Blacklock became a Member of the Order of Australia for her Service to the Arts.
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In 2003, Wendy Blacklock received the JC Williamson Award, the LPA's highest honour, for her life's work in live performance.