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Judi Farr
Judith Mary Stuart Farr AM (5 October 1938 – 30 June 2023), also credited as Judy Farr, was an Australian actress of theatre, film and television, with a career spanning some seven decades, she was best known locally for several situation comedy roles starting from the early 1960's to the early 1980's, in the early days of Australian television
She later had small roles in the internationally successful drama series Please Like Me (2013) A Place to Call Home (2013-2015)
Farr also appeared in Australian films such as Walking on Water, for which she won an AFI award and December Boys
Farr was born in Cairns, Queensland in 1938, and was the first born child of Phyllis and Herbert 'Bert' Farr. Her father's death in Borneo during World War 2 prompted her mother to move the family to Bondi, Sydney, where Judi and her brother Michael, grew up by the beach in their grandmother’s unit.
At the age of nine Farr won an elocution competition, reciting William Shakespeare at Sydney Town Hall. She studied ballet for 10 years, quitting in her teen years. She attended Holy Cross School in Woollahra.
Farr enrolled in drama school for 3 months and soon after, joined The Colony Players, an amateur Sydney theatre group, and acted in satirical revues at the Phillip Street Theatre. At age 19, she had her lucky break at the Genesian Theatre in The Skin of Our Teeth.
Farr made her television debut in a 1962 live broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew on ABC TV.
Farr became well known for her role of Rita Stiller in the situation comedy My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? (1967–1968). She continued to play the character in that show's short-lived sequel series Rita and Wally in 1968.
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Judi Farr
Judith Mary Stuart Farr AM (5 October 1938 – 30 June 2023), also credited as Judy Farr, was an Australian actress of theatre, film and television, with a career spanning some seven decades, she was best known locally for several situation comedy roles starting from the early 1960's to the early 1980's, in the early days of Australian television
She later had small roles in the internationally successful drama series Please Like Me (2013) A Place to Call Home (2013-2015)
Farr also appeared in Australian films such as Walking on Water, for which she won an AFI award and December Boys
Farr was born in Cairns, Queensland in 1938, and was the first born child of Phyllis and Herbert 'Bert' Farr. Her father's death in Borneo during World War 2 prompted her mother to move the family to Bondi, Sydney, where Judi and her brother Michael, grew up by the beach in their grandmother’s unit.
At the age of nine Farr won an elocution competition, reciting William Shakespeare at Sydney Town Hall. She studied ballet for 10 years, quitting in her teen years. She attended Holy Cross School in Woollahra.
Farr enrolled in drama school for 3 months and soon after, joined The Colony Players, an amateur Sydney theatre group, and acted in satirical revues at the Phillip Street Theatre. At age 19, she had her lucky break at the Genesian Theatre in The Skin of Our Teeth.
Farr made her television debut in a 1962 live broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew on ABC TV.
Farr became well known for her role of Rita Stiller in the situation comedy My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? (1967–1968). She continued to play the character in that show's short-lived sequel series Rita and Wally in 1968.