Liddy Clark

Acting career Clark has various film and television credits to her name. She is possibly best known however, for her two small screen roles in the cult series Prisoner. She played child killer Bella Albrecht for two episodes in 1979 and Sharon Smart, the victim of a crooked religious cult, for six episodes in 1983.

In 1988, Clark played the role of battered wife Kerry Barlow in Home and Away. She was a regular cast member in the series Fire and has made guest appearances in Cop Shop, Matlock Police, The Sullivans, Kingswood Country, A Country Practice and Echo Point. She also featured in the Prisoner re-imagining series Wentworth.

She was a presenter on the long-running children's program Play School.

Clark's film credits include Mad Dog Morgan, Blue Fin, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Touch and Go, Kitty and the Bagman and Annie's Coming Out.

Political career In the 1998 Queensland state election, she challenged Liberal minister Santo Santoro in the normally safe Liberal seat of Clayfield. While Santoro defeated her on the first count, Clark picked up a seven percent two-party swing to make the seat marginal.

In 2001 she challenged Santoro again, and this time won. Even allowing for the massive Labor wave that swept through the state in that election, Clark's election was considered a shock result. She was reelected in 2004.

She was briefly Minister for Indigenous Affairs in the government of Peter Beattie. She was involved in the so-called "Winegate" affair. A bottle of wine was taken aboard a government jet travelling to a "dry" indigenous community in North Queensland. Two of Clark's staff were moved from their jobs over the affair, and after an independent inquiry Clark was cleared of any wrongdoing.

She resigned from the Ministry in March 2005.

Filmography Film Year Title Role Type 1975 Sidecar Racers Cashier Feature film 1976 Caddie Receptionist Feature film Mad Dog Morgan Alice Feature film 1977 The Importance of Keeping Perfectly Still Film short Blue Fire Lady Betty (as Liddy Clarke) Feature film 1978 Blue Fin Ruth Pascoe Feature film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Kate Feature film 1980 Touch and Go Helen Feature film 1982 Cargo Film short Kitty and the Bagman Kitty O'Rourke Feature film 1983 On Guard Amelia Film short 1984 Annie's Coming Out Sally Clements Feature film 1986 Push Start Film short 1989 To Forget Ghosts Film short 1993 The Nostradamus Kid 'General Booth Enters Heaven' Strolling Player Feature film 1998 Waste Feature film 2003 About Face Film short

Television

Stage

As actor Year Title Role Type 1974 Doctor in the House Miss Winslow 'Riggie', a nurse Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Warner Theatre, Adelaide, Newcastle Civic Theatre with AETT & Crawford Theatre Productions 1976 The Foursome VCA, Melbourne with MTC 1976 City Sugar Nicola Davies St Martins Theatre, Melbourne with MTC 1977 No Worries Wendy La Mama, Melbourne 1977 Ravages: Dropping In Jean La Mama, Melbourne 1977 Obsessive Behaviour in Small Spaces Spider Prentiss UNSW Old Tote Parade Theatre, Sydney 1978 Makassar Reef Camilla Ostrov Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne with MTC 1978 Freaks Petunia Playbox Theatre, Melbourne with Hoopla Theatre Foundation 1980 Ticka-Tocka-Linga Victorian regional tour with Victoria State Opera 1980 Big River Monica Hindmarsh Arts Theatre, Adelaide, Canberra Theatre, Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, with MTC 1983 On Our Selection Lily White Melbourne Athenaeum with MTC 1984 Don's Party North Qld regional tour with New Moon Theatre Company 1984 Beach Blanket Tempest Kelly North Qld & NT regional tour, Playhouse, Adelaide, Canberra Theatre, University of Sydney with New Moon Theatre Company 1985–1986 Sons of Cain Crystal Playhouse, Melbourne, Theatre Royal Sydney, Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane, Wyndham's Theatre, London, with MTC 1987 Educating Rita Rita Playhouse, Newcastle, with Hunter Valley Theatre Company 1987 Away Townsville Civic Hall with New Moon Theatre Company 1989 Nice Girls Prue Anthill Theatre, Melbourne, Monash University with Playbox Theatre Company 1989 The Man from Mukinupin Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane with QTC 1990 After Dinner New England Theatre Company, Armidale 1990 Beach Blanket Tempest Q Theatre, Penrith 1993 Summer of the Aliens Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane, with Metaluna Theatre Company & QPAC 1993 Canaries Sometimes Sing Marian Street Theatre, Sydney 1994 A Bedfull of Foreigners Newcastle Civic Theatre, Canberra Theatre with Les Currie Productions Chapter Two MTC Benefactors MTC

As director Year Title Role Type 1992 Robin Hood and the Cheryl of Nottingham Director Tilbury Hotel, Sydney