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AnneFlannery

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Anne Flannery's screen roles often saw her playing wife and mother — from the partner of missionary Henry Williams in episode one of television epic The Governor, to the wheelchair-bound and mute Mary Jackson in movie Heart of the Stag. In 1976 she was nominated for a Feltex Award after playing the title role in one-off drama The Woman at the Store. The actor and theatre director then won acclaim in Vincent Ward's adaptation of A State of Siege, which offered her a rare chance to take centre frame. Flannery played a repressed ex-teacher whose demons unravel in an isolated house. Flannery died in Sydney in July 2001.

Screenography

1984 As: Mary Jackson Film
1981 As: Ma Film
1979 As: Sarah's Mother Film
1978 As: Malfred Signal Short film
1977 As: Marianne Williams Television

Awards

1982 Mystfest (Cattolica, Italy)
Best Artistic Contribution: Acting award, for the whole cast: for The Scarecrow

1976 Feltex Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Actress: for The Woman at the Store 

“...(an) utterly dominating, even shattering performance by Anne Flannery, an actress New Zealand should be more than proud of.”

Michael Heath, in a 1978 review of A State of Siege

Related images

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Anne Flannery as The Woman at the Store. Niccola Holmes (née Sanderson) plays the mysterious girl.
Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision. Unknown donor