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Occupation
  
Television actor

Name
  
Kirsty Child


Role
  
Actress

Spouse
  
Peter Adams (m. ?–1999)

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Movies and TV shows
  
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Boys from the Bush

Similar People
  
Russell Boyd, Peter Adams, Peter Weir

Kirsty Adams (née Childs) is an Australian actress, known for playing three roles in the cult drama Prisoner, including Ann Yates (1979) and Willie Beecham (1985).

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Career

Child acted in the classic 1975 Australian film adaptation of Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock. She went on to play three roles in Prisoner. The first two were guest roles- prison officer turned drug dealer Anne Yates in 1979, and Glynis Johnson, the sister of an inmate, in 1983. In 1985, she returned in a more prominent role as supercilious fence Willie Beecham. She returned for a cameo at the end of the series' run in 1986. In 2002, Child appeared in the Australian soap opera Neighbours as Carmel Tyler, the older sister of Susan Kennedy (Jackie Woodburne). Other television guest roles include Blue Heelers and Cop Shop. Child's reprised her role as Carmel on Neighbours in November 2012 for two months.

Selected filmography

  • Country Town (1971)
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
  • Personal life

    Child is the widow of New Zealand- born Australian actor Peter Adams, who died in 1999.

    References

    Kirsty Child Wikipedia