Lyndel Rowe
actress
Lyndel Rowe is an Australian actress of stage, television and film, who is best known for her work with the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Sydney Theatre Company and the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and for her role as Karen Fox/Hamilton in the television soap opera Sons and Daughters.
Career
Theatre
Rowe joined the Union Repertory Company (now the Melbourne Theatre Company), in productions including Patrick White's The Season at Sarsaparilla, Waltz of the Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Ghost Train and toured Australia with J.C. Williamson's production of Goodnight Mrs. Puffin (by Arthur Lovegrove), alongside Irene Handl.
Travelling to England, she studied at the Royal Court Theatre, with George Devine and Keith Johnstone. She performed in a production of Painting on Wood with the International Theatre Company of The Seventh Seal. From there she moved into repertory and into the company of a West End lunch-time theatre, TheatreScope, doing weekly seasons of one act works by playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, Ionesco and Anouilh.
She later returned to the UK to perform in several productions with the Liverpool Playhouse in 1979 – as Anna in Old Times, Dianne in Absent Friends and Raymonde in A Flea in Her Ear.
Invited back to the Melbourne Theatre Company at Russell Street Theatre, Rowe's roles included Nancy in The Knack, Raymonde in A Flea in her Ear, Irina in Three Sisters, Mary Warren in The Crucible, Margery Pinchwife in The Country Wife, Sheila in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Sandy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Clarice in The Servant of Two Masters, Marina in Pericles, Pip in Moby Dick, Grace in London Assurance, Charlotte in The Magistrate, Celemene in The Misanthrope and Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest.
Her credits with the Sydney Theatre Company included the roles of Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Rose Trelawny in Trelawny of the "Wells", Sonya in Uncle Vanya, Marianne in Tartuffe and Charlotte in The Real Thing.
With the South Australian Theatre Company she played Phoebe in As You Like It, Daphne in Old King Cole, Jill in David Williamson’s A Handful of Friends.
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