Linda Cropper

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Linda Cropper
Born (1958-01-01) 1 January 1958 (age 66)
OccupationActress

Linda Cropper (born 1 January 1958) is an Australian actress, primarily known for her role as Geraldine Proudman in the TV series Offspring and as Dame Nellie Melba in the television series Melba. A shortened version of Melba was selected for screening as a film at a Royal Command Performance before Queen Elizabeth II in London.

Career[edit]

Television[edit]

Cropper's television credits include roles in ABC miniseries Palace of Dreams, Edens Lost, Ring of Scorpio, Bordertown, Wildside, Water Rats, All Saints, White Collar Blue and The Pacific. She had a recurring role as Xhalax Sun during the third season of the Australian-American science fiction series Farscape.[citation needed]

Film[edit]

Cropper's film credits include Teesh and Trude (2002), Little Fish (2005) and Fool's Gold (2008).[citation needed]

Theatre[edit]

Cropper's many theatre credits include Simon Phillip's co-production of Poor Boy for the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company, and the role of Lady Macbeth in Bell Shakespeare's Macbeth. Other credits with Bell Shakespeare include Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It and Hamlet. Sydney Theatre Company credits include Arcadia, A Month in the Country, Top Girls, and Great Expectations. She played the solo role Melbourne Theatre Company's production of The Architect by Aidan Fennessy in 2018.[1]

Filmography[edit]

Television[edit]

Year Title Role Type
1980 Spring & Fall C.E.S. Officer TV series, episode 1: 'Close Comfort'
1984 Five Mile Creek Tillie TV series, 1 episode
1984 A Country Practice Joy Walker TV series, 2 episodes
1985 Palace of Dreams Miriam Mendel TV miniseries, 10 episodes
1986 Cyclone Tracy Joycie TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1987 Melba Nellie Melba / Nellie Mitchell Armstrong 'Melba' TV miniseries, 8 episodes
1988 Rafferty's Rules TV series, 1 episode
1988 Mike Willesee's Australians Lola Montez TV film series, episode 6: 'Lola Montez'
1988 Spit MacPhee Betty Arbuckle TV miniseries, 4 episodes
1988 Edens Lost Stevie TV miniseries, 4 episodes
1989 Bodysurfer Anthea TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1990 Ring Of Scorpio Marlene Walker TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1990 The Private War of Lucinda Smith Lucinda Smith TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1992 Children of the Dragon Monica TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1992 In Sydney Today Guest TV series, 1 episode
1992 Cluedo Matilda Mayberry TV series, 1 episode
1993 Review Guest Presenter TV series, 1 episode
1993 G.P. Shelley TV series, 1 episode
1994; 1997 Good Morning Australia Guest TV series, 2 episodes
1994; 1997 What's Cooking? Guest TV series, 2 episodes
1995 Bordertown Bev Stafford TV miniseries, 10 episodes
1997 Ten News Herself TV series, 1 episode
1997 Return To Jupiter Computer TV series, 13 episodes
1998 Wildside Carol Wilson TV series, 1 episode
1999-2000 Water Rats Charlie Driscoll TV series, 7 episodes
2000-2001 Farscape Xhalas Sun / Fento TV series, 5 episodes
2002 All Saints Anita Murphy TV series, 1 episode
2002-2003 White Collar Blue Fran Hoffman TV pilot & 7 other episodes
2004 Frank Hurley: The Man who Made History Narrator (voice) TV documentary
2006 McLeod's Daughters Trudi Webb TV series, 2 episodes
2008 Connected: The Power of Six Degrees Narrator (voice) Film documentary
2009 Fairweather Men Narrator (voice) TV documentary
2010 The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea Narrator (voice) TV documentary
2010 Satisfaction Loretta Hawkes TV series, 1 episode
2010-2017 Offspring Geraldine Proudman TV series, 86 episodes
2010 The Pacific Mary Frank Sledge TV miniseries, 4 episodes
2011 The Secret History of Eurovision Narrator (voice) TV special
2011 Seduction in the City Narrator TV series, 1 episode
2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Veronique Sarcelle TV series, 1 episode
2013 Redfern Now Coroner TV series, 1 episode
2014 Old School Barb TV series, 1 episode
2016 Howard on Menzies: Building Modern Australia Narrator (voice) TV series documentary, 2 episodes
2016 Rake Ms Crown TV series, 2 episodes
2017 The Leftovers The Nun TV series, 2 episodes
2018 Studio 10 Guest TV series, 1 episode
2018 Pine Gap Dani Griffin TV miniseries, 2 episodes
2020 How to Stay Married Claire TV series, 1 episode
2024 High Country[2] TV series, 8 episodes (filming)

Film[edit]

Year Title Role Type
1986 Going Sane Irene Carter Feature film
1994 The Seventh Floor Vivian Feature film
1996 Little White Lies Tessler Feature film
1997 The Hostages[3] Wendy TV film
1997 Sidewinder - Titanic Days Dianne Film short
1997 Blackrock Diane Feature film
1998 With or Without You Audrey Feature film
1999 Passion Mrs. Lowery Feature film
1999 Envy Kate Feature film
2001 My Husband, My Killer Megan Kalajzich TV film
2002 Teesh and Trude Trudy (Trude) Feature film
2002 The Nugget Roadhouse Waitress Feature film
2005 Little Fish Denise Feature film
2006 Answered By Fire Liz Savage TV film
2007 The Tank Film short
2008 Dream Life Dawn TV film
2008 Fool's Gold Tess's Attorney Feature film
2010 Suburbia Mary Film short
2013 Welcome to Iron Knob Auntie Marg Film short
2018 Upgrade Pamela Feature film
2019 Koko: A Red Dog Story Loop-Group ADR Feature film

Theatre[edit]

Year Title Role Company
1978 The Threepenny Opera NIDA Theatre
1979 Lost to the Devil Maggie Neutral Bay Music Hall
1979 Cabaret Sally Civic Playhouse, Newcastle with Hunter Valley Theatre Company
1979 Under Milk Wood Civic Playhouse, Newcastle with Hunter Valley Theatre Company
1979 The Miracle Worker Aunt Ev Civic Playhouse, Newcastle with Hunter Valley Theatre Company
1980 Cyrano de Bergerac Refreshment Girl / Lise / Sister Marthe Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1980 Volpone Celia Nimrod Theatre
1981 Celluloid Heroes Alison Mackay Opera Theatre, Adelaide, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
1981 The Dresser Irene Theatre Royal, Sydney, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Townsville Civic Theatre, Pilbeam Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth
1981 Chinchilla Romola de Pulszky Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1982 Amadeus Constanze Weber Theatre Royal, Sydney with Sydney Theatre Company
1982 Tristram Shandy Nimrod Theatre
1984 A Midsummer Night's Dream Melbourne Athenaeum with Melbourne Theatre Company
1986 The Madras House Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1988 The Mortal Falcon Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1988 An Ideal Husband Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1988 Loot Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1990 The Secret Rapture Katherine Glass Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1990 Three Sisters Masha Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
1991 Three Stories High - Julia's Song / Painted Woman / Koori Love Belvoir Street Theatre
1992 The Marriage of Figaro The Countess Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane
1992 Vassa NIDA Studio
1993 Top Girls Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
1993 The Idiot Crossroads Theatre, Sydney with Fisher Stein Productions
1994 King Lear Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
2000 A Month in the Country Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
2002 Hippolytus Government House, Sydney with Bell Shakespeare
2003 Hamlet Gertrude Sydney Opera House, Orange Civic Theatre, Playhouse Canberra, Ford Theatre, Geelong, Playhouse, Melbourne, Theatre Royal, Hobart with Bell Shakespeare
2003 As You Like It Playhouse, Melbourne with Bell Shakespeare
2004 Twelfth Night Maria Sydney Opera House, Playhouse, Melbourne, Playhouse Canberra, Illawarra Performing Arts Centre, Orange Civic Theatre with Bell Shakespeare
2005 Death Variations Seymour Centre with East Coast Theatre Company
2006 Romeo and Juliet Lady Capulet Playhouse, Canberra, Playhouse, Melbourne, Sydney Opera House with Bell Shakespeare
2007 Macbeth Lady Macbeth Australian national tour with Bell Shakespeare
2009 Poor Boy Viv Southbank Theatre, Sydney Theatre with Melbourne Theatre Company / Sydney Theatre Company
2011 And No More Shall We Part Pam Stables Theatre with Griffin Theatre Company
2012 The Mousetrap Mrs Boyle Sydney Theatre, Playhouse Canberra, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Dunstan Playhouse, St. James Theatre, Wellington, QPAC
2014 Nora Helen Belvoir Theatre
2014 Ghosts Helene Alving Melbourne Theatre Company[4]
2015 Elektra / Orestes Clytemnestra Belvoir Theatre
2018 The Architect Helen Pyefinch Southbank Theatre with Melbourne Theatre Company
2019 Australian Realness Mother Malthouse Theatre
2021–22 Grand Horizons Nancy Roslyn Packer Theatre
Arcadia Sydney Theatre Company
Great Expectations Sydney Theatre Company

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Accolades[edit]

In 2010, Cropper was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance Satisfaction, and also in the 1989 AACTAs for Best Actress in a Miniseries, for Edens Lost.[citation needed]

She won the Green Room Award (Performer, Theatre Companies) in 2019 for her 2018 performance in The Architect.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Architect". AusStage. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  2. ^ "More cast added to High Country | TV Tonight".
  3. ^ The Hostages - Cast. (1997) Screen Australia
  4. ^ https://www.aussietheatre.com.au/tag/linda-cropper
  5. ^ https://ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/2580
  6. ^ "2019 Nominations and Recipients – The Green Room Awards". The Green Room Awards. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

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