Judy Nunn

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Nunn is a former theatre and television actress and radio and television screenwriter for nearly 50 years,[3] best known for her roles as Vicki Stafford The Box, Irene Fisher on Sons and Daughters, and her 15-year tenure in TV soap opera Home and Away as original character Ailsa Hogan.

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.[2]

Career

Acting

Nunn worked for many years as a leading stage actress, starting in 1964.[3]

Her breakout television role was in the risque soap opera The Box, as scheming bisexual reporter Vicki Stafford. Her character became a popular cult figure in the series and Nunn continued in the role for the show's entire 1974–1977 three year run and reprised in the feature film version in 1975.

In 1979 she briefly played Joyce Martin in the Australian TV series Prisoner, followed by Dr. Irene Fisher in television serial Sons and Daughters from 1984 until 1986.

Nunn is known for her role as original character Ailsa Stewart in the soap opera Home and Away, from 1988 until the character was killed off in 2000 after deciding to leave the series to devote more time with novels. In 2002 she returned in a guest role playing the same character – it transpired this was actually an hallucination of her former on-screen husband, Alf Stewart, caused by a brain tumour.

Screenwriting

Nunn is a screenwriter of radio and television, as well as an author. She has written scripts for television series Neighbours and Possession.

Literary career

In the 1980s, Nunn 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.

In May 2025, Magi Pictures had acquired the rights of Nunn's novel Khaki Town.[4]

Personal life

Template:BLP unsourced section Nunn attended Presbyterian Ladies' College, Perth. She married her husband, actor and writer and former Tasmanian & Royal Hong Kong police officer Bruce Venables, the same week in which she filmed her character Ailsa's marriage to Alf (Ray Meagher) in Home and Away in 1988. Formerly long-time residents of Bondi, New South Wales, Nunn and her husband now reside on the Central Coast, New South Wales.

Filmography

Film

Acting
Year Title Role Type
1975 The Box Vicki Stafford Feature film
1978
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1978
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1983 Hostage: The Christine Meresch Story Mrs. Lewis Feature film
1983
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1983
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1983
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1983
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1984
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1985
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Television

Acting
Year Title Role Type
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Z-Cars TV series, 1 episode
1971
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		The Onedin Line Woman TV series, Season 1, Episode 12: "Cry of the Blackbird"
1972
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1974
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Matlock Police Stella Davis TV series, Episode: "The Prowler"
1974–1977
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		The Box Vicki Stafford Seasons 1–6, 206 episodes
1979
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1980
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Skyways Bessie Langhurst TV series, 2 episode: "The Return of Bessie Langhurst"
1981
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Holiday Island Ruby Palmer TV series, 1 episode 42: "The Great Frederico"
1982
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		A Country Practice Nancy Brewer TV series, Season 2, Episodes 23 & 24:"Shootin' Through" (2 episodes)
1984–86
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Sons and Daughters Irene Fisher Seasons 3–5, 150 episodes
1988–2000, 2002–03
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Home and Away Ailsa Stewart (née Hogan) Seasons 1–13 (main), Seasons 15–16 (recurring) (1313 episodes)
Self appearances
Year Title Role Notes
1978
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1978
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1995
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1996
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1996
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1996
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1996
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1997
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1998
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1999
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2000
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2001–02
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2001
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2002
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2002
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2006
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2006
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2011
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2012
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2014–15
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2015, 2016, 2022
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2015–21
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2015
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2016
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2020
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2021,2023
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2021
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2022
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		This Is Your Life: Ray Meagher Herself TV series, 1 episode
2023
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2023
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2024
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		The Morning Show Herself TV series, 1 episode
Additional credits
Year Title As Notes
1985
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Possession Writer
1985
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		Neighbours Writer Season 1 (3 episodes)

Bibliography

Children’s fiction

Year Title Notes
1981 The Riddle of the Trumpalar (as Judy Bernard-Waite) with Patricia Bernard and Fiona Waite)
1986 Challenge of the Trumpalar (as Judy Bernard-Waite) with Patricia Bernard and Fiona Waite
1988 Eye in the Storm
1991 Eye in the City

Adult

Year Title ISBN
1991 The Glitter Game
1994 Center Stage
1994 Araluen
1996 Kal
1999 Beneath the Southern Cross
2002 Territory
2004 Pacific
2005 Heritage
2008 Floodtide
2009 Maralinga
2011 Tiger Men
2013 Elianne
2015 Spirits of the Ghan
2017 Sanctuary
2019 Khaki Town Template:ISBN
2022 Showtime! Template:ISBN
2022 A Poem for Sally Template:ISBN
2023 Black Sheep Template:ISBN
2023 The Long Weekend (short story collection) Template:ISBN
2024 The Otto Bin Empire

References

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