- Colette Mann was born on February 17, 1950 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is an actress and writer, known for Prisoner (1979), The Dish (2000) and Neighbours (1985).
- Ranked 8th out of 25 for most appearances on Prisoner (1979), Mann appeared in 294 episodes.
- Studied the arts at Monash University, Melbourne and graduated in 1970.
- In the early 1970s she taught History and English at Williamstown High School, in what she described as a "tough area" of Melbourne.
- I just don't like comments about Fremantle media when I still work for them and the truth can be lost a lot of the time in the mists of one person's memory.
- It's not a copy of Prisoner, thank god. It's been inspired by Prisoner and so it has some of the similar elements but at the same time it's been incredibly updated.
- We've got to be pushing the boundaries and doing things that are better, otherwise we'd still be using shaky sets where every time you closed a cell door, the whole set rattled.
- Most of us in the original cast were from theatre, so they were looking for a different style of acting than what was around at the time, and it was great to be a woman in a leading role and not just the girlfriend of some policeman and just cutting up the carrots at home. We were one of the first series to be sold overseas; so much so that we don't get residuals because we didn't have them in our contracts. Because I was one of the originals in what they call the halcyon days of Prisoner - the first three years when you first see all of the storylines for the first time, not the years following where, as basically all shows do, they regurgitate storylines - I think it made my career. I wouldn't be still a working actress now if it wasn't for Prisoner.
- Answering a fans question about the 2019 Logies: Yes, but it would have been better with a win.
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