Kate Sheil

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name = Kate Sheil


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occupation = Stage and television actor
yearsactive = 1971-2005
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Kate Sheil is an Australian stage and television actress. She is probably best known for her role as prison officer Janet Conway in the cult television series "Prisoner", a role lasting six months in 1981-1982. In 1972 she had been a regular cast member of situation comedy series "Birds in the Bush".

Other credits include: "Homicide", "Sons and Daughters", "A Country Practice", "Water Rats" and "All Saints". She had a small role in feature film "Puberty Blues" (1981) as a school teacher.

Biography

Sheil first appeared in the 1971 television movie "What for Marriane?". During the next two years, she appeared on the television series "Ryan", "Boney", "Matlock Police" and "Birds in the Bush". She also had several appearances on "Homicide" from 1971 to 1976.

In 1975, she made her film debut in Ayten Kuyululu's "The Golden Cage" with Ilhan Kuyululu and Sait Memisoflu. She portrayed Sarah, a young teenager who befriends two newly arrived Turkish immigrants Murat (Ilhan Kuyululu) and Ayhen (Sait Memisoflu). Falling in love with one of them, she eventually leaves him after he demands that she convert to Islam. She is eventually located by the man who proposes to her, however, she refuses despite her being pregnant. Sheil was the only Australian cast in the film. [Reade, Eric. "History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978". Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1979. (pg. 171, 174) ISBN 0-8386-3082-0]

During 1976, Sheil had a supporting role in the television movie "Me & Mr Thorne" as well as the television series "Alvin Purple" and "Shannon's Mob". Later that year, she also starred with Tom Oliver and Gerard Maguire in David Williamson's "A Handful of Friends" at the Russell Street Theatre in Melbourne. [Williamson, David and Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt. "Australian Playrights: David Williamson". Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V., 1988. ISBN 90-5183-029-7] She also played a supporting role in "The Singer and the Dancer" the following year.

In 1980, she appeared on the television series "Timelapse", "Bellamy" and in the television movie "Air Hawk" before being cast as school teacher Mrs. Velland in the 1981 film "Puberty Blues". She also had a memorable yet short-lived run "Prisoner" as Janet Conway, a former Wentworth inmate turned prison officer. After appearing on "Sons and Daughters" in 1984, she again took a break from acting until the late 1980s appearing in the television mini-series ' and "Joe Wilson" during 1988. After appearing in the 1990 film "Weekend with Kate", she also made occasional television appearances in the television movie ' and, during the late 1990s, guest starred on "A Country Practice", "Children's Hospital" and "Water Rats".

Between 2001 and 2005, she played a recurring character, Victoria Carlton, in the soap opera "All Saints".

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