Clarissa Kaye-Mason
Biography
Clarissa Kaye-Mason was an Australian actress in theater, film and television. Born in Sydney in 1931, she joined a group of informal students taught by Hayes Gordon, a teacher of the Method, in 1958; the group gave its first public performances in one-act plays by Tennessee Williams and later grew into the Ensemble, a professional Sydney company and the city's first theater in the round. In 1962 she took archetypal roles in Melbourne at a theater in Russell Street, in The Shifting Heart and, as Olive, in The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. Gian Carlo Manara directed her in a 1968 television adaptation of Henry Lawson's short story The Drover's Wife, with Kaye in the title role, and she also had a part in Adventure Unlimited. Her first feature part came in Age of Consent (1969), as Meg, opposite James Mason. She later played the mother of Mick Jagger's Ned Kelly. She died in 1994.
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 18 years1969 to 1987
Every film, newest first
- 1987The Good WifeIMDb rating 5.7
- 1979Salem's LotIMDb rating 6.8
- 1973Frankenstein: The True StoryIMDb rating 7.1
- 1969Age of ConsentIMDb rating 6.3
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Early training
In 1958 Kaye became an informal student of Hayes Gordon, who taught "The Method". Reg Livermore and Jon Ewing were in the group, whose first public performances were one-act plays by Tennessee Williams.
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Worked with
Clarissa Kaye-Mason shares three films with James Mason, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Sam Neill's page
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Jack SmightDirector, 1 film, 1973
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