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Australian actress (1952–2014)

Wendy Hughes (29 July 19528 March 2014) was an Australian actress known for her work in theatre, film and television. Her career spanned more than forty years and established her reputation as one of Australia's finest and most prolific actors. In her later career she acted in Happy New Year along with stars Peter Falk and Charles Durning. In 1993 she played Dr. Carol Blythe, M. E. in Homicide: Life on the Street. In the late 1990s, she starred in State Coroner and Paradise Road.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Hughes originally studied to become a ballerina but, during her teenage years, she turned her focus to acting and later graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Hughes's first internationally known role was the character Patricia in Lonely Hearts (1982). That role began a decades long collaboration with the Dutch Australian director Paul Cox. Hughes made her American debut in 1987 in John G. Avildsen's film Happy New Year, opposite Peter Falk and Charles Durning. In 1989, she starred opposite Pierce Brosnan in The Heist, a TV movie made by HBO. Stage appearances by Hughes during this time included as Mrs. Robinson in the 2001 Melbourne version of The Graduate, Martha in a 2007 staging of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by the Melbourne Theatre Company, the character of Honor in Honour in 2010, and Henry Higgins's mother in Pygmalion (2012). Her last TV appearance was in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.

She was nominated for Australian Film Institute acting awards six times, and won the Best Lead actress award in 1983 for her performance in Careful, He Might Hear You.

Hughes had two children, a son with restaurateur Patric Juillet and a daughter, Charlotte, with actor Chris Haywood. She was also married to actor Sean Scully for a short time.

Year Title Role Type1974 Petersen Dr. Patricia 'Trish' Kent / Charles’ wife Feature film1975 Sidecar Racers Lynn Carson Feature film1977 High Rolling Barbie Feature film1978 Newsfront Amy Mackenzie Feature film1979 For a Child Called Michael Film short1979 My Brilliant Career Aunt Helen Feature film1979 Kostas Carol Feature film1980 Touch and Go Eva Feature film 1981 Hoodwink Lucy Feature film 1982 Duet for Four Barbara Dunstan Feature film 1982 Partners Unknown Feature film1982 A Dangerous Summer Sophie McCann Feature film 1982 Lonely Hearts Patricia Curnow Feature film 1983 Careful, He Might Hear You Vanessa Feature film 1984 My First Wife Helen Feature film1985 An Indecent Obsession Honor Langtry Feature film 1985 Can't Get Started Margaret TV film1987 Echoes of Paradise (aka Shadows of the Peacock) Maria Feature film1987 Happy New Year Carolyn Feature film1988 Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train Jenny Nicholson aka The Girl Feature film1988 Boundaries of the Heart Stella Marsden Feature film 1989 Luigi's Ladies Sara Feature film 1991 Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue Elle Feature film1994 Princess Caraboo Mrs. Worrall Feature film1996 Lust and Revenge George's advisor Feature film 1997 Paradise Road Mrs. Dickson Feature film 2001 The Man Who Sued God Jules Myers Feature film 2006 The Caterpillar Wish Elizabeth Roberts Feature film 2007 Salvation Gloria Feature film 2008 The View from Greenhaven Dorothy Feature film 2008 Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! Herself Feature film documentary2009 Just Desserts Judy Film short