Pat McDonald
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Pat McDonald (actress)
| Pat McDonald | |
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| Born | Patricia Ethell McDonald 1 August 1921 Melbourne, Australia |
| Died | 10 March 1990 (aged 68) Australia |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1939–89 |
| Spouse | Peter Hendry |
| Partner | Bunney Brooke |
Patricia Ethell "Pat" McDonald (1 August 1921[1] – 10 March 1990) was an Australian actress and the daughter of one of Australia's most prominent radio engineers Arthur McDonald.[2] She was best known for two long-running soap opera roles. She played comical malaproping gossip Dorrie Evans in Number 96 between 1972 and 1977 and the film of the same name in 1974, as well as Aunty Fiona Thompson in Sons and Daughters in the 1980s. In both series she was featured throughout the series entire run, starting with the pilot and about five and a half years in both cases.
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Career
McDonald acted in the 1939 film Seven Little Australians as the twenty year-old stepmother "Esther". She much later appeared in an episode of 1971 police drama The Long Arm. The role in Number 96 followed. McDonald won several Logie Awards as Best Actress for playing Dorrie, and a Gold Logie for Australia's most popular female personality in 1974. After Number 96 she played a regular role in short-lived Australian situation comedy series The Tea Ladies (1978).
One of McDonald's final TV appearances was at the 1989 Logie Awards (17 March 1989) when she took part in a production number called "Golden Girls" which celebrated female Gold Logie winners of years past. She performed the song with Lorrae Desmond, Hazel Phillips, Denise Drysdale, Jeanne Little and Rowena Wallace.
Later in 1989 McDonald appeared in an episode of the hit British TV series In Sickness And In Health in which she played Raeline's mother. The episode was aired in the UK in October 1989.
Personal life
McDonald was married in 1941 to Captain Peter Hendry, a doctor in the Australian Army.[3]
During the 1970s she was involved in a live-in lesbian relationship with Number 96 co-star Bunney Brooke. The two actors openly appeared in magazine article spreads that toured the suburban Sydney home they shared, and they freely discussed their international summer holidays together in press articles, although the true nature of the relationship was not explicitly stated.[4]
McDonald died from cancer in 1990.
References
- ^ "Births". The Argus. 3 August 1921. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4681137. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ Goot, Murray. "McDonald, Arthur Stephen (1891–1955)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcdonald-arthur-stephen-7333. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ "In The Theatres". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 May 1941. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/17759470. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
- ^ Mercado, Andrew. Super Aussie Soaps, Pluto Press Australia, 2004. ISBN 1-86403-191-3 p 46
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