Judy Nunn

Career

After many years as a leading stage actor, her breakout television role was as the scheming bisexual reporter Vicky Stafford in the risque soap opera The Box. Her character became a popular cult figure in the series. Nunn continued in the role for the show"s entire 1974–1977 run.

Her role as Ailsa Stewart in the soap opera Home and Away, from 1988 until the character was killed off in 2000, is probably Nunn"s most famous role.

In 2002 she returned to the role as a ghost that only her former on-screen husband, Alf Stewart, could see. Nunn is a screen writer of radio and television and author

She has written scripts for program"s Neighbours and Possession. In the 1980s she decided to turn her hand to prose.

The result was two adventure novels for children, Eye in the Storm and Eye in the City, which remain popular in Australia and Europe.

Embarking on adult fiction in the early 1990s, Judy"s three novels, The Glitter Game, Centre Stage, and Araluen, set respectively in the worlds of television, theatre, and film, became bestsellers. A specialist in Australian period fiction, other books she has written include Kal, Beneath the Southern Cross, Territory, Pacific, Heritage, "Floodtide", Maralinga, "Tiger Men" in 2011, "Elianne" in 2013 and "Spirits of the Ghan" in 2015.

Achievements

• Nunn was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Australia Day Honours for her service to the performing arts as a scriptwriter and actor of stage and screen, and to literature as an author

Works

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  • Floodtide

    ('The denuded earth of the iron-ore loading yards, the hug...)

  • Maralinga

    (It's an historical fiction on the darkest days of the col...)

  • Floodtide

    (Four men. One unbreakable friendship. Forged in the might...)

  • Beneath the Southern Cross

    (Fiction. Epic story of three generations in Australia, be...)

  • Araluen
  • The Glitter Game / Centre Stage
  • Kal