Penne Hackforth-Jones
Biography
Penne Hackforth-Jones was an Australian actress and biographer who was born in the United States and made her first credited screen appearance in 1969, in the television series Riptide. Raised in England before her family moved to Australia in 1964, she trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney and graduated in 1968. Australian television kept her busy for decades, in series including Bellbird, Number 96, Homicide, A Country Practice, All Saints and The Doctor Blake Mysteries, while she took the lead as Jessica Johnson in the period adventure Cash and Company and its spin-off Tandarra. Her feature credits ranged from Alvin Purple (1973) to Muriel's Wedding (1994), Paradise Road (1997), Mao's Last Dancer (2009) and The Tree (2010). She also wrote a biography of her great-grandmother, the novelist Barbara Baynton. Hackforth-Jones died in 2013.
63years old at death
- Born Greenwich
- Died Melbourne
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 13 years1997 to 2010
Every film, newest first
- 2010The TreeIMDb rating 6.5
- 2009Mao's Last DancerIMDb rating 7.3
- 1997Paradise RoadIMDb rating 6.8
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A change of course
Hackforth-Jones appeared in a television advertisement series for Kellogg's Sultana Bran that ran for a long time, during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Worked with
Penne Hackforth-Jones shares three films with Aden Young, 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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All films by Bruce Beresford
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