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Joy Smithers
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Joy Smithers (born 15 July 1963) is an Australian actress, best known for her acting performances on television, and her role as a television news presenter, such as with MTV Aust…
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Joy Smithers (born 15 July 1963) is an Australian actress, best known for her acting performances on television, and her role as a television news presenter, such as with MTV Australia in the late 1980s. Her credits include: All The Way, Bangkok Hilton, The Flying Doctors, Home and Away, Lorca and the Outlaws, Wildside and All Saints. For a short time she was co-host of Good Morning Australia. In September 2008 Smithers made a return to acting, as Bridget Simmons in Home and Away. Smithers appeared in the 2008 Australian surfing film Newcastle, as well as the 2015 action film Mad Max: Fury Road. At the age of 15, Smithers was offered the role of Max Rockatansky's wife, Jessie, in the original 1979 Mad Max, but was forced to decline after her parents would not let her travel to Adelaide for production.
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2021
Amazing Grace
TV show Maureen
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2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
Movie The Vuvalini
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2012
Status Update - A Facebook Fairytale
Movie Genevieve
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2010
Lest We Forget
Movie Bell
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2008
Newcastle
Movie Flora
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2004
Love in the First Degree
Movie Leslie Barrett
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1998
All Saints
TV show Rose Carleton
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1997
Wildside
TV show Natasha Lodans
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1997
River Street
Movie Marcia
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1997
Big Sky
TV show Grace
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1997
Heart of Fire
Movie Julie Stoler
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1997
Little White Lies
Movie Reb
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1996
Water Rats
TV show Gabi Cunningham
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1995
Sex Is a Four Letter Word
Movie Sylvia
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1995
Blue Murder
TV show Debra Smith
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1994
The Seventh Floor
Movie Tracey
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1994
The Custodian
Movie Helen Quinlan
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1994
Heartbreak High
TV show Cassandra
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1989
Bangkok Hilton
TV show Mandy Engels
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1989
Bodysurfer
TV show Lydia
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1989
E Street
TV show Helen McCarthur
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1986
The Flying Doctors
TV show Kerry Samuelson
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1985
Rebel
Movie Mary, All Girl Band
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1985
Emoh Ruo
Movie Terri Tunkley
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1984
Lorca and the Outlaws
Movie Lena
