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Yvonne Lawley is a Actor Néo-Zélandaise born on 4 december 1913

Yvonne Lawley

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Birth name Joyce Yvonne Watson
Nationality Nouvelle zelande
Birth 4 december 1913
Death 21 may 1999 (at 85 years)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Joyce Yvonne Lawley OBE (née Watson, 4 December 1913 – 21 May 1999) was a New Zealand actor.

Biography

Lawley began acting in her teens, and was sailing to England to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) when she met her future husband—an engineer—and instead spent ten years in Calcutta, India where he was stationed during World War II. Back in New Zealand, she took some small roles in theatre, television and radio, but her acting career was secondary to her family.

She appeared in the 1976 television adaptation of The God Boy, and in an episode of the anthology series Winners and Losers entitled "Blues for Miss Laverty". In 1983, she appeared in the film Among the Cinders. When her husband died in the mid-1980s, Lawley began to devote more time to acting. Her only lead role in a feature film was in 1990's Ruby and Rata, directed by Gaylene Preston. Immediately after filming this role, she flew to Australia to play a smaller role as the domineering mother of Sam Neill's character in the film Death in Brunswick. For much of the 1990s, she was a mainstay of New Zealand television, appearing in Shortland Street, Gloss, and American series filmed in New Zealand such as The Tommyknockers, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess.

Lawley was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the performing arts in the 1995 New Year Honours.

She died on 21 May 1999 in Auckland.

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Filmography of Yvonne Lawley (6 films)

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The Tommyknockers (miniseries), 3h1
Directed by John Power
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton, Allyce Beasley, Joanna Cassidy, Robert Carradine
Roles Mabel Noyes
Rating56% 2.8368652.8368652.8368652.8368652.836865
Bobbi Anderson (Helgenberger), a Western fiction writer, and her boyfriend, Jim "Gard" Gardner (Smits), a poet, live with their dog, Petey, on the outskirts of Haven, Maine. Anderson suffers from writer's block and Gardner is a recovering alcoholic who currently isn't writing. One day, they stumble over a manmade stone object protruding from the ground. They begin excavating the object and discover a series of connected cubes that are made of an unknown alloy.
Death in Brunswick, 1h49
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Sam Neill, Zoe Carides, John Clarke, Yvonne Lawley, Nicholas Papademetriou
Roles Mrs. Fitzgerald (Carl's mother)
Rating64% 3.246463.246463.246463.246463.24646
Set and filmed in Brunswick, a Melbourne suburb, it deals with a humble chef, Carl (Neill) who gets a job at a sleazy nightclub owned by Yanni Voulgaris (Nicholas Papademetriou). He begins a relationship with the Greek-Australian barmaid, Sophie (Carides), which soon brings him into trouble with his employers and her strict father. His drug dealing co-worker, Mustafa (Nick Lathouris), is beaten up by the Greek-Australian owners. Thinking Carl told them, Mustafa attacks Carl. Carl accidentally stabs and kills him.
Ruby and Rata, 1h49
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Yvonne Lawley
Rating60% 3.004113.004113.004113.004113.00411
Ruby (Yvonne Lawley) is an 83-year-old woman who has just failed her driving test and is worried about her ability to cope with day-to-day life at her age. She asks her nephew Buckle (Simon Barnett), posing as a real estate agent, to arrange to lease part of the house she owns to a potential housemate to assist her with various chores. The new tenant is Rata (Vanessa Rare)—a well-dressed, smooth-talking young woman of Māori descent who works for a large finance company. Once she has moved in, it becomes apparant that Rata is actually a cleaner at the firm, has a young son named Willie (Lee Metekingi), and is in trouble with social services over welfare payments. Rata is also hoping to make it big as a singer in a punk band, The Apocalypse, which is reliant on her accessing the supposed "fortune" of her new housemate/landlady to pay for sound equipment. An unusual relationship develops between Ruby, Rata and Willie, with each of them manipulating the others in some way, but forming a bond and dependence on each other.
The Scarecrow, 1h28
Directed by Sam Pillsbury
Origin Nouvelle zelande
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors John Carradine, Bruce Allpress, Jonathan Hardy, Martyn Sanderson, Greer Robson-Kirk, Roy Billing
Rating57% 2.857272.857272.857272.857272.85727
One night a girl is slain in the woods of a small town, two teenagers, Sam and Les, inadvertently cross the killer's path while robbing the hens of Victor the school bully. According to Sam Edwards the film is not as bleak as the novel. Small-town New Zealand in the 1950s is puritanical on the surface but depraved to its depths.