Kerry McGuire

Kerry McGuire is an Australian actress.[1] For her performance in Olive she won the 1988 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Actress in a Telefeature.[2] For her role in Against the Wind she won the 1979 Sammy Award for best actress[3] and a 1979 Logie[1] for Best Performance By An Actress In A Major Role.

Kerry McGuire
OccupationActress
Years active1963-2005

Screen roles include Olive were she played the titular Olive Bodill, an actress battling cancer,[4] Runaway Island as inkeeper Molly McKenzie and Against the Wind as Polly, also an innkeeper.[5]

Her long stage career[6] include roles in Absurd Person Singular runs at the Northside Theatre,[1] a gender swapped The Odd Couple[7][8]

References
  1. Collier, Shayne (30 October 1986), "Kerry happily puts her neck in a noose", The Sydney Morning Herald
  2. "And the winners were...", The Canberra Times, 12 October 1988
  3. "Hines, Walsh awarded gold Sammys", The Canberra Times, 18 October 1979
  4. Morris, Joan (14 February 1988), "Television violence exercises the minds of the ABC.", The Canberra Times
  5. Adams, Clay (14 February 1981), "RUNAWAY ISLAND- for European eyes only", Woman's Weekly
  6. Kerry McGuire, AusStage
  7. Jamrozik, Wanda (24 September 1987), "Sex change surgery adds to the laughs - Florence ond Olive replace Felix and Oscar in a feminist-inspired update of the lonesome bachelors' story", The Sydney Morning Herald
  8. The Odd Couple, AusStage
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