Anne Scott-Pendlebury

Career

Television Scott-Pendlebury appeared in many Melbourne television productions throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She began working with Crawford Productions whilst still at Art School in 1967, as one of the two main characters, Anne Fielding.

Scott-Pendlebury joined the Neighbours cast as Hilary Robinson in 1987. Her agent sent her for the initial small role of Hilary (for which she did not have to audition), who was written in as the cousin of Jim Robinson (played by Alan Dale), during the episode of his sons marriage to Charlene (Kylie Minogue). The producers later brought Hilary on board as a permanent character. The same year, she was part of a select group chosen to take part in a specialised voice workshop on Shakespearean technique and text with Cicely Berry, the vocal coach for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Great Britain.

She spent a year writing a stage adaptation of the Ethel Turner book "Seven Little Australians", which met the approval of the Turner Estate. Yeronga State High School with Villanova Players Incorporated

Awards Year Work Award Category Result 1976 Cash and Company Sammy Awards Best Supporting Actress 1985 Candida Green Room Awards Best Supporting Actress 1987 Blithe Spirit Green Room Awards Best Supporting Actress