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- Judith McGrath was an Australian TV actress who was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland and she was most known for her roles in Australian TV Drama Prisoner (1979) as acidic and sarcastic officer Colleen 'Po Face' Powell where she stayed for until the 1984 season before moving on and working extensively in the Australian Theatre Company before her next big role in Australian romance/medical drama A Country Practice (1981) and then working several years later in one of Australia's most beloved TV dramas All Saints (1998) which ran for 12 years and earned McGrath a logie nomination for best actress, during the series 493 episodes McGrath only missed one episode.
McGrath retired from acting in 2012 after her final on-screen role on the TV drama Winners & Losers (2011) and lived quietly until her death in 2017. McGrath died in 2017 aged 70 after a battle with lung cancer.
- IMDb mini biography by: PhaseItIn
- Playing sarcastic characters
- Appeared in all but one of the 493 episodes of All Saints.
- Ranked 9th out of 25 for most Prisoner episodes appearing in 263 episodes.
- On her All Saints Character Von: When I got the script for the audition, I thought she was very interesting - I liked her, I liked the possibilities of who she was - she is an obvious character in many ways but with good dimensions. And I like the way the writers are developing her.
- In the back of my head, yes I did.
- Every TV show has its life and you hear things about new shows being started and they take shows to make room for the new. So yes, it was looking to me very much that perhaps that would happen.
- I can always remember when Country Practice finished, and I was driving home to Queensland through the country. And people were quite bereft because they felt it was their show.
- I did love the show and I loved playing the character. But there were times when I though 'Move on Jude, just get on with it.'
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