Noni Hazlehurst

Noni Hazlehurst is an Australian actor, writer, director and broadcaster whose screen career began in the early 1970s. Born in Melbourne in 1953, she studied drama at Flinders University from 1971 to 1973. Her first television jobs were guest leads in serials made by Crawford Productions, and in 1975 she appeared as Sharon Lewis in The Box. She was among the first cast of The Sullivans, playing Lil Duggan, in 1976, presented Play School from 1978 to 2001, and between 1995 and 2005 hosted the lifestyle show Better Homes and Gardens. Her film work includes the lead role of Nora in Monkey Grip (1982), along with Little Fish (2005), Candy (2006), The Mule (2014), Truth (2015) and Ladies in Black (2018). She has won Logies, ARIA Awards and Australian Film Institute Awards, and entered the Hall of Fame in 2016.