Was Nadine also in a crime investigator series with Joanne Lumley?
--- In Nadine_Garner@yahoogroups.com, "marian" <justmaz2004@...>
wrote:
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> Nadine Garner
>
> Plays Detective Senior Constable Jennifer Mapplethorpe.
>
> Nadine Garner was so keen to play a strong police woman with a
> chequered past that she relocated from London to Melbourne to take
up
> the challenge. Packing up her family in the UK where she's been
based
> in recent years with her cameraman partner and 14-month-old son,
> Edan, the seasoned actress is loving every second on the set of
City
> Homicide.
>
> "It's a really lovely assembly of people and I get on well with
all
> the cast. They're all great people and make the job really easy,"
she
> enthuses.
>
> The multi-talented Nadine is no stranger to the screen - in fact,
> she's grown up in front of the cameras and took out her first
award
> in 1986 as a 13-year-old when she scored a Logie for her much-
loved
> role on The Henderson Kids. She received an AFI nomination for her
> leading roles in the feature film Metal Skin and the TV drama Raw
FM
> (1997) and won an AFI for the feature film Mull (1988).
>
> Nadine has featured in some of Australia's landmark television
shows,
> from The Secret Life of Us to Neighbours, A Country Practice, GP,
> Tribe and The Flying Doctors. And she can't wait for the public to
> witness her latest role in Aussie TV drama.
>
> "City Homicide provides a great chance to play a strong female
> character in a man's world," she says. "It's appealing to play
> someone who's very competent and who has achieved a certain amount
of
> status in their career."
>
> "Jennifer is a modern woman facing dilemmas about her career and
> personal choices. She's very much torn between sticking with her
> career and being married to her job or focusing on other areas of
her
> life. From that point of view, it's quite interesting for women to
> watch her journey because I think there are a lot of women out
there
> in the same predicament."
>
> While excited to be back on the Australian small screen, Nadine
has
> also been keeping busy with work in film and theatre. While seven
> months pregnant with Edan, the remarkable Nadine starred alongside
> Kerry Armstrong and Barry Crocker in Razzle Dazzle. She's also
been
> nominated for several awards for her role in "Cabaret", and won a
> Green Room award and a Helpmann award in 2004.
>