Deborah Kennedy

Deborah Kennedy is an Australian character actress recognized for her many television and film roles and for the Yellow Pages commercial in which she said Not happy, Jan! She took her early acting training at the Community Theatre in Killara and at the Nimrod Acting School in 1975, going on to perform with Nimrod Theatre Company, where she started as an understudy and then took over the roles of Hero and Lady Anne. She began working onscreen in the 1970s and played Dr. Helen Ashford in The Restless Years from 1977 to 1982. Her films include Death in Brunswick (1991), The Sum of Us (1994), which earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination from the Australian Film Institute, Swimming Upstream (2003), Charlie & Boots (2009) and Ladies in Black (2018). She played Doris Collins in A Place to Call Home from 2013, and toured in Fawlty Towers: The Play in 2016.