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HeatherBolton

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Heather Bolton impressed critics with one of her earliest screen performances: as the heroine battling a haunted car in Gaylene Preston's 1985 debut feature Mr Wrong. Bolton won a GOFTA award for her pains, then scored more awards for smaller roles in romance Arriving Tuesday and goldmining classic Illustrious Energy. After starring as the legendary radio host in touring stage show Aunt Daisy! The Musical (1991), she relocated to Australia. Since then Bolton has taken on more screen roles — including co-starring in a 2007 movie adaptation of Hamlet — while creating and acting in plays for Melbourne's Ranters Theatre.

 

 

Screenography

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012 - 2015 As: Miss Lavender Series
Cop Hard
2011 As: Mrs Hard Series
Winners and Losers (Australian TV series)
2011 - 2016 As: Magistrate Valerie Doyle Series
Monash: The Forgotten Anzac
2008 As: Victoria Monash Television
Rush (Australian TV series)
2008 - 2011 As: Melanie Television

Awards

1988 Listener Film and Television Awards
Best Female Performance in a Supporting Role - Film: for Illustrious Energy

1987 Gofta Film and Television Awards
Best Female Performance in a Supporting Role - Film: for Arriving Tuesday

“On screen for virtually every scene, Heather Bolton invests the part with a vitality and gutsiness that is the perfect alternative to the whimpering, wilting violet to whom Hitchcock and his disciples have subjected us for so long. Sure she's scared, but passive she ain't. ”

— Helen Martin, in a Listener review of Mr Wrong, 19 October 1985, page 40

Related images

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Three women promoting their first movie Mr Wrong (1985): (from left) writer/director Gaylene Preston, lead actor Heather Bolton and producer Robin Laing.
Kindly provided by The Dominion Post
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On the set of 1985 movie Mr Wrong. From left to right (at the back): Wayne Leonard, Thomas Burstyn (wearing hat), Margot Shellgrove, director Gaylene Preston, John Samuels, Alun Bollinger, Chris Graves and Robin Murphy. Foreground: Jan Fisher and lead actor Heather Bolton (in swanndri).
Kindly provided by Onfilm magazine
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Producer Robin Laing and director Gaylene Preston with the old Jaguar that terrorises its new owner in Mr Wrong (1985), their first movie. The photo was taken for Wellington's Dominion newspaper.
Photographer Don Roy. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post