Maggie Kirkpatrick
Maggie Kirkpatrick created one of Australia’s most memorable drama characters in Australian television history at the same time achieving the position of being one of Australia’s most admired and respected theatrical leading ladies. Maggie’s professional career began in 1961 with John Alden’s Shakespeare Company, for the Perth Theatre Company.
She has worked extensively with all the theatre companies is Australia including The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Cripple of Inishmaan, A Delicate Balance and The Hamm Funeral for STC, Emerald City for MTC, Shoehorn Sonata for The Ensemble and Farewell Brisbane Ladies and The One Day Of The Year for the State Theatre of South Australia.
Large scale musicals include Irene, Anything Goes, Songs from a Slide Show Alley and Little Me. Maggie starred in the West End production of Prisoner Cell Block H - The Musical and co-starred with Susannah York in John Misto’s Shoehorn Sonata at London’s Kings Head Theatre. Two national tours of the Prisoner Musical followed and Maggie returned to Australia in late 1997 to play the lead role of Betty in The Perth Theatre Company production of A Passionate Woman. She has appeared extensively at Marian St Theatre in Love Letters, Absurd Person Singular, the Druids Rest, Sailor Beware and Social Climbers. Maggie’s most successful role at theMarian St Theatre was Peggy For You where she was awarded the Mo Award for the role of Margaret Ramsey in 2001. Maggie recently toured Australia and South East Asia with the hit musical Singing In The Rain for IMG and David Atkins.
Amongst her television credits are All Saints, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, GP, The Ferrals, Hey Dad, The Miraculous Mellops, Dearest Enemy, Home and Away, Betty’s Bunch, Richmond Hill and of course, Joan Ferguson (The Freak) in Prisoner. Her feature film credits include Welcome to Woop Woop, Lillian’s Story, Billys’ Holiday and Encounters, The Pirate Movie, The Night of the Prowler, The Getting of Wisdom and the SBS produced Feature With Mother. A highlight of Maggie’s career was the departure into cabaret with her acclaimed one-woman show The Screw is Loose at the Tilbury Hotel and more recently Maggie Kirkpatrick....Still Here at Kabarett Voltaire.