Vivienne Garrett

Vivienne Garrett is an Australian-based theater, television actress and voice artist. She was born in Sydney and now lives in Perth. Garrett graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1970.

Career

While still a teenager, her first acting roles were in 1971 in guest roles in police dramas Homicide and Matlock Police.

Garrett is best known for her role of Rose Godolfus, daughter of deli owner Aldo, in top-rated soap opera Number 96. She was a member of the original cast of Number 96 when it began in March 1972. Number 96 brought sexual situations and nude scenes to Australian television for the first time. Although series star Abigail became famous for being the first woman to appear topless on Australian television, in fact it was Garrett who deserves the credit, who was topless in the first episode of the serial. However the scene. was seen only in Sydney. By the time the episode went to air in other localities in the days following, the shot had been cut by censors[1] after complaints from viewers in Sydney.[2] Garrett remained in the show for five months, breaking her contract and leaving the series over a storyline where Rose was gang raped by a group of bikers because the script called for her to be actually enjoying it.[3][4]

After leaving the Number 96 she worked in repertory theatre before abandoning her Western lifestyle to live and meditate in a religious community in India for 18 months. When she returned to Australia, she worked on student films for Australian Film Television and Radio School, acted in theatre and on television, and appeared in the feature film Caddie (1976).[5]

She also briefly resumed the role of Rose for a limited number of episodes of Number 96 in September 1975, and appeared in a recurring sketch in comedy series The Norman Gunston Show called The Checkout Chicks. This sketch, a send-up of melodramatic soap operas set in a supermarket, mostly featured other former Number 96 actors – Abigail, Candy Raymond, Philippa Baker, Judy Lynne, Anne Louise Lambert.

Theater roles include Hamlet, The Crucible, Butterflies are Free, On Our Selection, Top Girls.[5] In the 1980s she had a role in miniseries Bodyline (1984). In 1993 she starred in the children's television series Haydaze. Film roles include Boundaries of the Heart (1988), Let's Get Skase (2001), and The Shark Net (2003; TV movie).

Since 2006 Garrett could be heard on Australian television as a voice-over artist. She has also worked as an acting lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Notes

  1. ↑ Mercado, Andrew. Super Aussie Soaps, Pluto Press Australia, 2004. ISBN 1-86403-191-3 pp 44–45
  2. ↑ Clarke, David and Steve Samuelson. 50 Years: Celebrating a Half-Century of Australian Television, Random House: Milsons Point, NSW, 2006. ISBN 1-74166-024-6 p 142
  3. ↑ Mercado, Andrew. Super Aussie Soaps, Pluto Press Australia, 2004. ISBN 1-86403-191-3 p 45
  4. ↑ http://minisites.ninemsn.com.au/9stories/8992263/First-woman-to-appear-topless-on-Australian-TV-has-no-regrets
  5. 1 2 Atterton, Margot. (Ed.) The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz, Sunshine Books, 1984. ISBN 0-86777-057-0 p 86
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