{"id":30209,"date":"2014-03-08T20:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T09:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=30209"},"modified":"2014-03-08T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T09:31:19","slug":"vale-wendy-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2014\/03\/08\/vale-wendy-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Wendy Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Wendy
Wendy Hughes – 1952-2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the great lights of Australian cinema, television and theater, Wendy Hughes has lost her battle with cancer today.<\/p>\n

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Ms Hughes rose to prominence during the renaissance of the Australian film industry during the 70’s and 80′, working primarily within the local industry, gaining a reputation as one of our leading ladies. Her most famous roles include the films My Brilliant Career<\/em> in 1979, directed by Gillian Armstrong, and Newsfront<\/em>, in 1978, for director Phillip Noyce. Throughout her career, Ms Hughes would stamp her class and magnetic screen persona on numerous projects for the stage and screen, working with a veritable who’s who of local talent along the way – Bryan Brown, Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Bruce Spence, Bill Hunter, and many many others.<\/p>\n

Her vast film output includes Hoodwink, Careful He Might Hear You<\/em> (for which she won an Australian Film Institute Award, for Best Lead Actress, in 1983), An Indecent Obsession, The Caterpillar Wish, Paradise Road<\/em>, and The Man Who Sued God<\/em> (with Billy Connolly). Her television work included roles in State Coroner, Return To Eden,<\/em> as well as appearing in several US television series’, such as Homicide<\/em>, and a guest role on Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>, opposite Patrick Stewart as one of Picard’s love interests.<\/p>\n

Wendy Hughes passed away from cancer, on March 8th. She was 61.<\/p>\n

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Wendy Hughes as she appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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