Wendy Hughes

Wendy Hughes

Wendy Hughes (29 July 1952 – 8 March 2014) was an Australian actress known for her work in theatre, film and television. Hughes was an award-winning actress. Her career spanned more than forty years and established her reputation as one of Australia's finest and most prolific actors. Her biggest role was in Lonely Hearts, played in 1982 (this film was the beginning of a long collaboration with director Paul Cox). 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendy Hughes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Wendy Hughes
  • Popularity: 3.898
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1952-07-29
  • Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Wendy Hughes Movies

  • 1991
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    Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue

    Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue

    5.3 1991 HD

    Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the...

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  • 1975
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    Sidecar Racers

    Sidecar Racers

    2.5 1975 HD

    You're going to get us both killed with your grandstanding...! Two guys, one girl, and no brakes! Death defying daredevils burning up the track in...

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  • 2001
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    The Man Who Sued God

    The Man Who Sued God

    6.5 2001 HD

    A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance...

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  • 1994
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    Princess Caraboo

    Princess Caraboo

    5.4 1994 HD

    Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims...

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  • 1979
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    My Brilliant Career

    My Brilliant Career

    6.152 1979 HD

    A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get...

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  • 1982
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    Duet for Four

    Duet for Four

    1 1982 HD

    A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want...

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  • 1981
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    Hoodwink

    Hoodwink

    4.4 1981 HD

    Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves...

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  • 1989
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    The Heist

    The Heist

    5.1 1989 HD

    Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.

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  • 1978
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    Newsfront

    Newsfront

    5.6 1978 HD

    Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing...

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  • 1974
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    Jock Petersen

    Jock Petersen

    3.3 1974 HD

    Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives...

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  • 1987
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    Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

    Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train

    5.2 1987 HD

    A convent teacher spreads a little happiness and makes enough money to support her crippled brother's habit by selling her favours regularly on a...

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  • 1982
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    Lonely Hearts

    Lonely Hearts

    5.5 1982 HD

    In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker

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  • 1982
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    A Dangerous Summer

    A Dangerous Summer

    3.8 1982 HD

    Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores...

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  • 2008
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    The View from Greenhaven

    The View from Greenhaven

    4.2 2008 HD

    A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.

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  • 1988
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    Boundaries of the Heart

    Boundaries of the Heart

    1 1988 HD

    A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at...

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  • 2009
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    Salvation

    Salvation

    5 2009 HD

    Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her...

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  • 1979
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    Kostas

    Kostas

    2 1979 HD

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  • 1988
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    Shadows of the Peacock

    Shadows of the Peacock

    3.5 1988 HD

    The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.

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  • 1985
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    An Indecent Obsession

    An Indecent Obsession

    4.5 1985 HD

    Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by...

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  • 1997
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    Paradise Road

    Paradise Road

    6.4 1997 HD

    A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during...

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  • 1983
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    Careful, He Might Hear You

    Careful, He Might Hear You

    6.1 1983 HD

    Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest...

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  • 1976
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    Is There Anybody There?

    Is There Anybody There?

    7 1976 HD

    A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun...

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  • 1985
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    I Can't Get Started

    I Can't Get Started

    1 1985 HD

    Stalwart aussie actor John Waters is wannabe-novelist Robert Marks. No one can fault his persistence and application in the past - he really wants...

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  • 1985
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    Remember Me

    Remember Me

    1 1985 HD

    A woman recently returned to work is contacted by her former husband who has been in a mental institution. She is torn between her still strong...

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  • 1989
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    Luigi’s Ladies

    Luigi’s Ladies

    5 1989 HD

    Shaken by the stockmarket crash of ’87 … plus a few other distractions like attempted murder, flirtatious affairs and a lunatic, knife...

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  • 1978
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    Puzzle

    Puzzle

    1 1978 HD

    Franciscus searches for the urn that contains the remains of Buddha but instead finds danger and intrigue.

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  • 2008
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    Not Quite Hollywood

    Not Quite Hollywood

    6.8 2008 HD

    As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging...

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  • 1980
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    Touch and Go

    Touch and Go

    1 1980 HD

    Three attractive socialites working for charity turn to robbery to keep a special primary school for underprivileged children open.

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  • 1984
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    My First Wife

    My First Wife

    4.5 1984 HD

    My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer...

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  • 1977
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    High Rolling

    High Rolling

    1 1977 HD

    Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a...

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  • 2006
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    The Caterpillar Wish

    The Caterpillar Wish

    4.8 2006 HD

    A young girl's view on belonging and loss.

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  • 1990
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    Donor

    Donor

    5.3 1990 HD

    Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a friend is strangled by an elderly patient, who...

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  • 1977
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    The Alternative

    The Alternative

    2 1977 HD

    Unmarried, beautiful and talented, Melanie Hilton discovers she is pregnant. The editor of a woman's magazine, she decides to have her baby and take...

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  • 1987
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    Happy New Year

    Happy New Year

    5.5 1987 HD

    Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old...

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  • 1988
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    Boundaries of the Heart

    Boundaries of the Heart

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1989
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    Luigi’s Ladies

    Luigi’s Ladies

    5 1989 HD

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  • 1989
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    Luigi’s Ladies

    Luigi’s Ladies

    5 1989 HD

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  • 1987
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    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    Star Trek: The Next Generation

    8.4 1987 HD

    Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new...

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  • 1983
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    Return to Eden

    Return to Eden

    6.9 1983 HD

    Stephanie Harper is rich but insecure 40 year old heiress with two failed marriages behind her. Stephanie believes that she has found true love with...

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  • 1994
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    The Man from Snowy River

    The Man from Snowy River

    6.6 1994 HD

    The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo...

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  • 1972
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    Number 96

    Number 96

    4.5 1972 HD

    Number 96 was a popular Australian soap opera set in a Sydney apartment block. Don Cash and Bill Harmon of the Cash Harmon Television production...

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  • 1993
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    Homicide: Life on the Street

    Homicide: Life on the Street

    8 1993 HD

    An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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  • 1997
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    State Coroner

    State Coroner

    1 1997 HD

    State Coroner was an Australian television series screened on Network Ten in 1997 and 1998. There were two series produced with a total of 29...

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  • 1991
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    A Woman Named Jackie

    A Woman Named Jackie

    9.2 1991 HD

    This biographical miniseries, based on the best seller by C. David Heymann, starts when Jackie Kennedy was working after college; and spans her life...

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  • 1976
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    Power Without Glory

    Power Without Glory

    5 1976 HD

    Award-winning historical drama series which traces the life of John West from his impoverished youth in the depression of the 1890s, to his death as...

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  • 2012
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    Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

    Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

    7.679 2012 HD

    Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and...

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  • 1993
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    Homicide: Life on the Street

    Homicide: Life on the Street

    8 1993 HD

    An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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  • 1987
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    Amerika

    Amerika

    5.4 1987 HD

    Amerika is a miniseries about life in the United States, ten years after a bloodless takeover engineered by the Soviet Union.

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  • 2007
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    Constructing Australia

    Constructing Australia

    1 2007 HD

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  • 1980
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    Lucinda Brayford

    Lucinda Brayford

    1 1980 HD

    Based on the novel by Martin Boyd (1946) this miniseries tells the story of many generations of a family who migrate from England to Australia and...

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  • 2007
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    City Homicide

    City Homicide

    5.3 2007 HD

    City Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's Metropolitan Police Headquarters.

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