# Kerry McGuire

Kerry McGuire is an Australian actress.

## Early life

McGuire studied at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating with a Bachelor of Dramatic Acting in 1964.

## Career
### Film and TV

McGuire's screen roles include her AACTA Award-winning role in Olive (1988) where she played the titular Olive Bodill, an actress battling cancer, Runaway Island (1982) as innkeeper Molly McKenzie and miniseries Against the Wind (1978) as Polly (also an innkeeper), the latter for which she won both a Sammy Award and a Logie Award. She later appeared as Diana Fraser, mother of doctors Lachlan and James Fraser on Home and Away, on and off from 1997–1999, reprising the role for 2 further episodes in 2005.
She made guest appearances throughout her career on tv series' such as Division 4, Riptide, Catwalk, Homicide, Boney, Certain Women, Skyways, Prisoner, Cop Shop, A Country Practice, Neighbours, Rafferty's Rules and G.P.

### Stage

McGuire's long stage career included roles in Absurd Person Singular (a gender swapped The Odd Couple) at Sydney's Northside Theatre She also starred in Don's Party which toured Australia in 1973, Bedroom Farce (1979) and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1983–1984).

## Acting credits
### Film

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1971 | Devlin | Joan Hunter | TV play |
| 1977 | Going Home | | TV movie |
| 1977 | Mama's Gone A-Hunting | Concierge (uncredited) | TV movie |
| 1978 | Puzzle | Diana Carson | TV movie |
| 1979 | The Little Convict | Polly Nelson (voice) | Animated TV movie |
| 1981 | The Homicide Squad | Barbara Patista | TV movie |
| 1982 | Runaway Island | Molly McKenzie | TV movie |
| 1982 | Heatwave | Female TV Reporter | Feature film |
| 1985 | Fragments of Terror | Wife (uncredited) | Anthology film, segment: "The Coming" |
| 1988 | Olive | Olive Bodill | TV movie Won the 1988 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Lead Actress in a Telefeature |

### Television

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1965 | The Stranger | Nurse | Miniseries, 1 episode |
| 1967 | Love and War | | Miniseries, episode 3: "O’Flaherty, VC" |
| 1969 | Division 4 | Patsy Jordan | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1968 | Riptide | Freda Phillips / Beryl Winton | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1968; 1972 | Homicide | Elaine Harvey / Faye Hall / Patti Summers | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 1970 | Woobinda, Animal Doctor | | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1970 | The Rovers | Dorrie | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1970 | Dynasty | Frank Halliday | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1971 | Catwalk | Kate MacKenzie | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1972 | Boney | Meena | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1974 | Silent Number | Clare Milson | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1974 | Our Man in the Company | Marcia | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1975 | Certain Women | | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1978 | Father, Dear Father in Australia | Miss Wilson | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1979 | Against the Wind | Polly McNamara | Miniseries, 12 episodes Won 1979 Sammy Award for Best Actress. Won 1979 Logie for Best Performance by an Actress in a Major Role |
| 1979 | Skyways | Ann Driscoll | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1981 | Prisoner | Arna Johanssen | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1981 | Cop Shop | Geraldine Shipton | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1983–84 | Runaway Island | Molly McKenzie | TV series, 8 episodes |
| 1984 | A Country Practice | Robyn Riley | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1987 | Neighbours | Christine Wilton | TV aeries, 3 episodes |
| 1987–88 | Rafferty's Rules | Irene Doonan | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1993 | G.P. | Reverend Pauline Ternier | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1997–99; 2005 | Home and Away | Diana Fraser | TV series, 49 episodes |

### Theatre

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1963 | Hotel Paradiso | Victoire the Maid | UNSW with NIDA |
| 1963 | The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet | Babsy | UNSW with NIDA |
| 1963 | Under Milk Wood | Rosie Robert / Mrs. Organ Morgan / Mrs. Dai Bread One | UNSW with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |
| 1963 | Barnstaple / The House of Bernarda Alba | Helen / Bernarda | UNSW with Old Tote Theatre Company |
| 1964 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | | UNSW with Old Tote Theatre Company |
| 1964 | The Oresteia of Aeschylus | Queen Clytemnestra | Tent Theatre, Sydney with NIDA |
| 1964 | A Resounding Tickle | Middie Paradock | UNSW with NIDA |
| 1964 | The Sport of My Mad Mother | Patty | UNSW with NIDA & Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |
| 1964 | Still Life | Dolly | UNSW with NIDA & Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |
| 1965 | Ballad of the Drover's Wife | Narrator | UNSW with NIDA |
| 1966; 1968 | A Refined Look at Existence | | Jane Street Theatre, Sydney, UNSW with Old Tote Theatre Company |
| 1966 | Halloran's Little Boat | | Jane Street Theatre, Sydney with NIDA |
| 1967 | The Lion in Winter | | Independent Theatre, Sydney with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |
| 1967 | How's the World Treating You | | Independent Theatre, Sydney with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |
| 1968 | This Old Man Comes Rolling Home | | UNSW with Old Tote Theatre Company |
| 1969 | You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running | | Phillip Street Theatre, Sydney with Harry M. Miller |
| 1973 | Don's Party | Kerry | UNSW, Warner Theatre, Adelaide, Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, Hunter Theatre, Sydney, Theatre Royal, Hobart, Playhouse, Perth, Canberra Theatre, Shepparton, Mildura, Wangaratta, Bendigo, Albury with Old Tote Theatre Company, J. C. Williamson's & NIDA |
| 1977 | The Business of Good Government | | Assembly Hall, Sydney with Q Theatre Company |
| 1977; 1978 | Mothers and Fathers | Sally Longman | NIDA Parade Theatre, UNSW, Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane |
| 1978 | Dry Run | Myra Kendall | Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane |
| 1978 | There Were Giants in Those Days | | Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne with MTC |
| 1979 | Bedroom Farce | Susannah | Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Opera Theatre, Adelaide, Perth, Townsville, Cairns with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |
| 1979 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Helena | Albert Park Amphitheatre, Brisbane with Queensland Theatre |
| 1979; 1980 | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Lorraine Sheldon | SGIO Theatre, Brisbane with Queensland Theatre, Melbourne Athenaeum with MTC |
| 1980 | Piaf | Toine | Comedy Theatre, Melbourne with Playbox Theatre Company |
| 1983; 1984 | Caravan | | Sydney Opera House with Ensemble Theatre Company |
| 1983; 1984; 1985 | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Madame Mantalini / Mrs Witterly / Mrs Snevellicci | Theatre Royal Sydney with STC for Sydney Festival, State Theatre, Melbourne with MTC, Festival Theatre, Adelaide |
| 1984 | An Act of Settlement | | Sydney Opera House with Ensemble Theatre Company & with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust for Sydney Festival |
| 1984 | Stage Struck | | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney with Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust |
| 1984 | Season’s Greetings | | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney with Northside Theatre Company |
| 1985 | What If You Died Tomorrow? | | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney with Northside Theatre Company |
| 1987 | The Odd Couple | | Northside Theatre, Sydney |
| 1988 | A Small Family Business | | Northside Theatre, Sydney |
| 1989 | Passion Play | | Sydney Opera House with Gary Penny Productions |
| 1993 | A Flea in Her Ear | | NIDA Parade Theatre |
| 1994 | Heartbreak House | | His Majesty's Theatre, Perth with Angel Productions |
| 1995 | The Real Thing | | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney |
| 1997 | After-Play | | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney with Northside Theatre Company |

#### As director

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1986 | Otherwise Engaged | Director | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney with Northside Theatre Company |

### Radio

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1979 | Silent Night, Lonely Night | Janet | ABC Radio, Brisbane |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Nominated work | Award | Category | Result |
| 1988 | Olive | Australian Film Institute Awards | Best Lead Actress in a Telefeature | Won |
| 1979 | Against the Wind | Sammy Awards | Best Actress | Won |
| 1979 | Against the Wind | Logie Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Major Role | Won |