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Melissa Jaffer

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Melissa Jaffer
Born (1936-12-01) 1 December 1936 (age 87)
OccupationActress
Years active1955-1960, 1967-2004, 2012-present

Melissa Jaffer (born 1 December 1936)[1] is an Australian actress. She is best known for her stage and television roles, but has also appeared in many films.[2]

Career

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Jaffer started her career in theatre productions in the mid 1950s,[3] and has made many appearances in television series, including Kings, Mother and Son, G. P., Brides of Christ, Grass Roots and All Saints. Jaffer is probably best known to international audiences for her role as ageing mystic Utu-Noranti Pralatong in the science fiction series Farscape. In 1976, Jaffer tied for the first AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role opposite Jacki Weaver for her performance in Caddie. In 1980 she played the part of Cousin Edie in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's children's television series The Nargun and the Stars.

In the 2015 film Mad Max: Fury Road she played the role of "Keeper of the Seeds".

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Type
1970 3 to Go Lady on phone (uncredited) Short film (Segment: “Toula”)
1973 Gretel Short film
1974 Between Wars Matron Feature film
1974 The Cars That Ate Paris Beth Feature film
1975 Ride a Wild Pony (aka Born to Run) Mrs. Pirie Feature film
1976 Caddie Leslie Feature film
1978 Weekend of Shadows Vi Feature film
1982 Starstruck Mrs. Booth Feature film
1983 Molly Aunt Jenny Feature film
1983 Kindred Shirley Film short
1984 The Coolangatta Gold Ballet Teacher Feature film
1989 The Delinquents Aunt Westbury Feature film
1992 El Besodel Sueno Role unknown Feature film
1993 You and Me and Uncle Bob Sylvie Feature film
1999 Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien Granny Marshall Feature film
1999 Komodo Patrick's Grandmother Feature film
2000 My Mother Frank Sister Sebastian Feature film
2000 Cheek to Cheek Beryl Short film
2012 Dear Life Barbara Larkin Short film
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road Keeper of the Seeds Feature film
2019 Strangers Lillian Short film
2022 Three Thousand Years of Longing Clementine Feature film

Television

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Year Title Role Type
1956 Barry Humphries Revues TV series
1959 Trip-Tease and High C's Herself TV special
1960 You, Too, Can Have a Body Teleplay
1961 Consider Your Verdict TV series, 1 episode
1967 Bellbird TV series, 1 episode
1968; 1969 Homicide Lorna Stacy TV series, 2 episodes
1970 A Summer Storm Teleplay
1970 Beauty and the Beast Panellist TV series
1973 How Could You Believe Me When I Said I'd Be Your Valet When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life? Teleplay
1973 The Taming of the Shrew Widow Teleplay
1973 Division 4 June Ross TV series, 1 episode
1974 Matlock Police Linda Davis TV series, 1 episode
1974 Out of Love TV series, episode 2: "I Don't Want To Know"
1974 Silent Number Thelma TV series, 1 episode
1974 Essington TV film
1975 Behind the Legend TV series, episode 10: "Christopher Brennan"
1975 The Seven Ages of Man TV series, episode 2: "The Schoolboy"
1975 Certain Women TV series
1975 Ben Hall Mrs. Daley TV series, 3 episodes
1975 Games for Parents and Other Children Teleplay
1975 The Tichborne Affair TV film
1976 The Outsiders Betty Kurts TV series, 1 episode
1976 Stories from Around the World Mrs. Hoddel TV series, 1 episode
1976 Do I Have to Kill My Child? Mrs. Hammond TV film
1979 The Wonderful World of Disney Angus' Wife TV series, 2 episodes
1980 The Nargun and the Stars Cousin Edie TV miniseries, 4 episodes
1981 Cop Shop TV series
1983 Learned Friends TV series
1983-84 Kings Rosie King TV series, 19 episodes
1984 Five Mile Creek Mrs. O'Bannion TV series, 1 episode
1984 Singles Gloria TV series, 5 episodes
1984; 1986; 1991 A Country Practice Barbara Kennedy TV series, 2 episodes
1985; 1994 Mother And Son Lorna TV series, 1 episode
1986 Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe Thelma O'Keefe TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1986; 1991 A Country Practice Agatha Muldoon TV series, 2 episodes
1986 Land of Hope Old Nesta Quinn TV miniseries
1986 Studio 86 TV series, episode 5: "What We Did In The Past"
1987 The Harp in the South Miss Sheily TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1987 The Butcher's Son TV film
1987 Poor Man's Orange Miss Sheily TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1987 Willing and Abel TV series, 1 episode
1988 Swap Shop Aunt Mimi TV series
1989 E Street Queenie TV series, 4 episodes
1990; 1996 G.P. TV series, 1 episode
1991 A Country Practice Anthea Garrick TV series, 2 episodes
1991 Brides of Christ Sister Attracta TV miniseries, 1 episode
1991 Good Vibrations ,Annie TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1992 The Distant Home Mrs. Webster TV film
1994 Mother And Son Lorna TV series, 2 episodes
1994 Heartland Meredith Lovell TV series, 1 episode
1995 On the Dead Side TV film
1995 Police Rescue Gwen TV series, 1 episode
1995 The New Adventures of Flipper Shopkeeper TV series, 1 episode
1996 Monday to Friday Guest TV series, 1 episode
1996 G.P. Dr. Maureen Riordan TV series, 18 episodes
1997 Big Sky Lily Bateman TV series, 1 episode
1997 Fallen Angels Marion TV series, 1 episode
1999-2000 All Saints Eileen Sullivan TV series, 8 episodes
2000 Grass Roots Fran Smith TV series, 8 episodes
2000-03 Farscape Utu-Noranti Pralatong / Dominar Rygel XVI / Female Pilot / Nilaam TV series, 24 episodes
2000 The Lost World Crazy Old Woman TV series, 1 episode
2001 People Who Still Use Milk Bottles Narrator Film documentary
2001 The Farm Helen Cooper TV miniseries, 3 episodes
2001 Head Start Amanda Villiers TV series, 9 episodes
2003 BlackJack Helen Kirsten TV film series, 1 episode: "Murder Archive"
2003 Snobs Gwen Walston TV series, 16 episodes
2004 Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars Utu-Noranti Pralatong TV miniseries, 2 episodes
2012 Packed To The Rafters Mrs. Montague TV series, 1 episode
2017 Glitch Adeline Fitzgerald TV series, 2 episodes
2018 True Story with Hamish & Andy Mrs. Rose TV series, 1 episode
2021 The Newsreader Ruth TV series, 1 episode

References

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  1. ^ "Jaffer, Melissa 1936". Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Archived from the original on 22 March 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2015 – via HighBeam Research.
  2. ^ "Thematising the Global: Recent Australian Film". Post Script (Academic Journal).[dead link]
  3. ^ "Melissa Jaffer". AusStage.
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