# Liddy Clark

Elizabeth Anne Clark (born 6 November 1953), is an Australian former politician with the Labor Party in the Queensland Legislature who held the seat for Clayfield and also an actress of television and film, director, producer and presenter, credited as Liddy Clark and Liddy Clarke.

## Acting career

Clark has various film and television credits to her name. She is possibly best known however, for her two small screen roles in the cult series Prisoner. She played child killer Bella Albrecht for two episodes in 1979 and Sharon Smart, the victim of a crooked religious cult, for six episodes in 1983.
In 1988, Clark played the role of battered wife Kerry Barlow in Home and Away. She was a regular cast member in the series Fire and has made guest appearances in Cop Shop, Matlock Police, The Sullivans, Kingswood Country, A Country Practice and Echo Point. She also featured in the Prisoner re-imagining series Wentworth.
She was a presenter on the long-running children's program Play School.
Clark's film credits include Mad Dog Morgan, Blue Fin, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Touch and Go, Kitty and the Bagman and Annie's Coming Out.

## Political career

In the 1998 Queensland state election, she challenged Liberal minister Santo Santoro in the normally safe Liberal seat of Clayfield. While Santoro defeated her on the first count, Clark picked up a seven percent two-party swing to make the seat marginal.
In 2001 she challenged Santoro again, and this time won. Even allowing for the massive Labor wave that swept through the state in that election, Clark's election was considered a shock result. She was reelected in 2004.
She was briefly Minister for Indigenous Affairs in the government of Peter Beattie. She was involved in the so-called "Winegate" affair. A bottle of wine was taken aboard a government jet travelling to a "dry" indigenous community in North Queensland. Two of Clark's staff were moved from their jobs over the affair, and after an independent inquiry Clark was cleared of any wrongdoing.
She lost the seat, the most marginal in Queensland, at the 2006 Election.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1975 | Sidecar Racers | Cashier | Feature film |
| 1976 | Caddie | Receptionist | Feature film |
| 1976 | Mad Dog Morgan | Alice | Feature film |
| 1977 | The Importance of Keeping Perfectly Still | | Film short |
| 1977 | Blue Fire Lady | Betty (as Liddy Clarke) | Feature film |
| 1978 | Blue Fin | Ruth Pascoe | Feature film |
| 1978 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Kate | Feature film |
| 1980 | Touch and Go | Helen | Feature film |
| 1982 | Cargo | | Film short |
| 1982 | Kitty and the Bagman | Kitty O'Rourke | Feature film |
| 1983 | On Guard | Amelia | Film short |
| 1984 | Annie's Coming Out | Sally Clements | Feature film |
| 1986 | Push Start | | Film short |
| 1989 | To Forget Ghosts | | Film short |
| 1993 | The Nostradamus Kid | 'General Booth Enters Heaven' Strolling Player | Feature film |
| 1998 | Waste | | Feature film |
| 2003 | About Face | | Film short |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1974 | Matlock Police | Patti | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1977 | Bluey | Esme Fulcher | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1977 | The Sullivans | Marge | TV series, 4 episodes |
| 1978–1981 | Cop Shop | Joanne McPherson / Karen Ashby / Kathy Simpson / Sandra Mazzorino | TV series, 6 episodes |
| 1979 | Ride On Stranger | Shannon | TV miniseries, 4 episodes |
| 1979–1980 | Don't Ask Us | Various characters | TV series |
| 1981 | A Sporting Chance | Jo Travinska | TV series, 10 episodes |
| 1981 | Holiday Island | Meredith | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1982; 1992 | A Country Practice | Louisa Kennedy / Faith Finlay | TV series, 5 episodes |
| 1982 | Living Together | | TV pilot |
| 1982 | Jonah | Pinkey | TV miniseries, 4 episodes |
| 1982–1984 | Play School | Presenter | TV series, 5 episodes |
| 1982 | Watch This Space | Herself | TV series |
| 1981; 1983 | Prisoner | Bella Ulbricht / Sharon Smart | TV series, 8 episodes |
| 1980; 1984 | Kingswood Country | Jennifer / Vicki | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1986 | The Challenge | | TV miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 1987 | Coda | Sally Reid | TV movie |
| 1988 | Home and Away | Kerry Barlow | TV series, 10 episodes |
| 1988 | Swap Shop | Dot | TV series |
| 1988 | Barlow and Chambers: A Long Way From Home (aka Dadah Is Death) | Gilda Rickman | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1988; 1989 | Rafferty's Rules | Faye Irwin | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 1989 | Grim Pickings | Verity ‘Birdie’ Birdwood | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 1989 | Living With The Law | | TV series |
| 1990 | The Flying Doctors | Carol | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1991 | G.P. | | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1995 | Echo Point | Iris Delaney | TV series, 11 episodes |
| 1995–1996 | Fire | Jean Diamond | TV series, 17 episodes |
| 2012 | Tangle | Dr. Taylor | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2015 | Wentworth | Hazel Fullager | TV series, 1 episode |

## Stage
### As actor

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1974 | Doctor in the House | Miss Winslow 'Riggie', a nurse | Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Warner Theatre, Adelaide, Newcastle Civic Theatre with AETT & Crawford Theatre Productions |
| 1976 | The Foursome | | VCA, Melbourne with MTC |
| 1976 | City Sugar | Nicola Davies | St Martins Theatre, Melbourne with MTC |
| 1977 | No Worries | Wendy | La Mama, Melbourne |
| 1977 | Ravages: Dropping In | Jean | La Mama, Melbourne |
| 1977 | Obsessive Behaviour in Small Spaces | Spider Prentiss | UNSW Old Tote Parade Theatre, Sydney |
| 1978 | Makassar Reef | Camilla Ostrov | Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne with MTC |
| 1978 | Freaks | Petunia | Playbox Theatre, Melbourne with Hoopla Theatre Foundation |
| 1980 | Ticka-Tocka-Linga | | Victorian regional tour with Victoria State Opera |
| 1980 | Big River | Monica Hindmarsh | Arts Theatre, Adelaide, Canberra Theatre, Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne with MTC |
| 1983 | On Our Selection | Lily White | Melbourne Athenaeum with MTC |
| 1984 | Don's Party | | North Qld regional tour with New Moon Theatre Company |
| 1984 | Beach Blanket Tempest | Kelly | North Qld & NT regional tour, Playhouse, Adelaide, Canberra Theatre, University of Sydney with New Moon Theatre Company |
| 1985–1986 | Sons of Cain | Crystal | Playhouse, Melbourne, Theatre Royal Sydney, Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane, Wyndham's Theatre, London with MTC |
| 1987 | Educating Rita | Rita | Playhouse, Newcastle with Hunter Valley Theatre Company |
| 1987 | Away | | Townsville Civic Hall with New Moon Theatre Company |
| 1989 | Nice Girls | Prue | Anthill Theatre, Melbourne, Monash University with Playbox Theatre Company |
| 1989 | The Man From Mukinupin | | Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane with QTC |
| 1990 | After Dinner | | New England Theatre Company, Armidale |
| 1990 | Beach Blanket Tempest | | Q Theatre, Penrith |
| 1993 | Summer of the Aliens | | Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane with Metaluna Theatre Company & QPAC |
| 1993 | Canaries Sometimes Sing | | Marian Street Theatre, Sydney |
| 1994 | A Bedfull of Foreigners | | Newcastle Civic Theatre, Canberra Theatre with Les Currie Productions |
| | Chapter Two | | MTC |
| | Benefactors | | MTC |

### As director

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1992 | Robin Hood and the Cheryl of Nottingham | Director | Tilbury Hotel, Sydney |