Induction photo as a Prisoner
With Heartbreak High co-star Alex Dimitriades
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Induction photo as a Prisoner |
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With Heartbreak High co-star Alex Dimitriades |
Peta Toppano (born April 8, her agent is Robyn Gardiner Management) set out to become a ballerina before a role in 'Godspell' launched her career in musical theatre. Roles in 'My Fair Lady', 'They're Playing Our Song', 'Nine' and 'A Chorus Line' followed. She regards 'A Chorus Line' as her first serious acting challenge; it led to her many television roles. Peta has spent the last few years immersing herself in the Perth theatre scene, particularly with Black Swan Theatre. Her recent return to the eastern seaboard was marked with a return to music theatre in 'Merrily We Roll Along' for the Sydney Theatre Company.
Peta married Australian media mogul Kerry Stokes on New Year's Day 1992, at a ski resort in Beaver's Creek, Colorado, her second marriage (?). It ended in 1995, reportedly "because Toppano did not want to live in Perth, and could not cope with being 'just a wife' and stepmother to his children" from his previous 2 marriages.
Peta talked to Christopher Williams for an ABC television interview series about her struggle to shake herself free of ethnic stereotyping and "the glamour thing" to command respect as an accomplished actor and singer.
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The Young Doctors (Australian TV series) (1970s) |
Synopsis: Seeking refuge from her shattered life, Maria escapes to an island paradise where she falls under the spell
of a remarkable Balinese temple dancer.
Synopsis: Phillip Cromwell, a young Australian with a head full of ideals and a bag full of borrowed money, makes a
bid for a run-down Sydney afternoon newspaper. Starting in 1962, the series charts this determined and charismatic man's
rise to power in the turbulent world of the international media from the heady early days of the 'Sydney Globe' to the
final battle with printers and journalists which brings Fleet Street to its knees.
Synopsis: With the aid of an Australian smuggler (John Waters), a Red Cross nurse (Cybill Shepherd) helps four
Cambodian orphans escape the killing fields.
G.P., an Australian TV drama series.
Guest starred Peta Toppano as a love interest to Dr Sharp in the first season.
Heartbreak High, an Australian TV drama series.
Starred Peta Toppano as Stella Iannou in the first few seasons.
The Paper Man, a 19?? Australian TV drama (6 x 52 minute episodes) produced by Roadshow Coote and
Carroll for Granada Television International and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Starring John Bach, Rebecca
Gilling, Oliver Tobias, and Peta Toppano.
Prisoner, a 1979-1986 Australian TV drama series.
Original line-up featured Peta Toppano (then known as Peita Toppano) as Karen Travers.
Which Way Home, a 1990 drama directed by Carl Schultz.
Starring Cybill Shepherd, John Waters and Peta Toppano.
The Young Doctors, a long-running 1970s Australian TV drama series.
Original line-up included Peta Toppano as Dr Gail Henderson.