Joanne Samuel
Actor
- Born
- August 5, 1957 (age 69) · Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joanne Samuel (born 1957 in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia) is an actress who remains best known for her role as the screen wife of Mel Gibson in the 1979 film Mad Max.
Prior to her appearance in the film, Samuel had made guest appearances in police procedurals Matlock Police and Homicide. She was then a regular cast member in television soap operas Class of '74, The Sullivans and The Young Doctors. She left The Young Doctors very suddenly – the producers kindly wrote her out of the show quickly as she was offered the Mad Max role after a fellow Young Doctors actress who had been due to take the role fell ill. Samuel later returned to television in the regular role of Kelly Morgan-Young in Skyways (TV series).
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Samuel later guest starred in Hey Dad! as Jeanette Taylor and All Saints, and played the school principal in The Wiggles in their film The Wiggles Movie.
Samuel is married to Tony Ahern. They have several children. They live in the Blue Mountains suburb of Blackheath and Samuel has retired from acting. Samuel is active in the local Baptist church. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Samuel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Mad Max
April 12, 1979
Mad Max 2
December 24, 1981
Not Quite Hollywood
August 28, 2008
My Pet Dinosaur
April 22, 2017
Alison's Birthday
May 1, 1981
Nightmaster
July 1, 1988
The Wiggles Movie
December 18, 1997
The Madness of Max
August 1, 2015
Acute Misfortune
August 4, 2018
Mad Max Exposed
June 1, 2022
What About Sal?
April 25, 2024
Queen of the Road
January 1, 1984
Acting17
- 2024What About Sal? as Alice
- 2022Mad Max Exposed as self
- 2021Christmas Down Under as Barbara Parker
- 2019Smoke Between Trees as Therese
- 2018Acute Misfortune as Magistrate
- 2017My Pet Dinosaur as Doris Mercher
- 2015The Madness of Max as Self
- 2008Not Quite Hollywood as Self
- 1997The Wiggles Movie as Mrs. Bingle
- 1988Nightmaster