Glenda Linscott

Glenda Linscott is an Australian actress and director who trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and moved to Adelaide, Australia, as a child. She is best known for playing the tough bikie inmate Rita Connors, nicknamed The Beater, in the prison drama Prisoner, joining in 1985, near the end of its seventh season; the character grew hugely popular during the final season. Before taking the part she researched women prisoners, spending time inside a maximum security prison, and studied bikie gangs. She had a recurring role as the pathologist Dr. Imogen Soames in Murder Call between 1997 and 2000, and guest parts in A Country Practice, All Saints and McLeod's Daughters. In 2011 she played the surgeon Dr. Jessica Girdwood in Neighbours. From 2015 to 2022 she was Head of Acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and later directed theater at Flinders University.