Noni Hazlehurst

Actor, presenter and broadcaster Noni Hazlehurst AM studied drama at Flinders University in South Australia, and after graduating gained roles in television shows Division 4, Homicide, Matlock Police and The Sullivans. From 1978 to 2001 she was a regular presenter on Playschool. Noni has won an AFI for Best Actress twice, in 1982 for Monkey Grip, the film adaptation of Helen Garner's novel, and in 1985 for Fran, a harrowing story of a self-destructive single mother. In 2005 she was named Best Supporting Actress for Little Fish. Her performance in Waiting at the Royal (2000) won her the AFI for Best Actress in a television mini-series. Her other films include Candy (2006); Bruce Beresford's adaptation of Henry Handel Richardson's The Getting of Wisdom (1977); and his Ladies in Black (2018), for which Hazlehurst received an AACTA nomination and was named Best Supporting Actress at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Hazlehurst was the anchor of the Seven Network's Better Homes and Gardens from 1995 to 2004, and for SBS she has presented three seasons of Every Family Has a Secret. She had a lead role in all six seasons of A Place to Call Home (2013-2018). In 1995 she was named a Member of the Order of Australia.