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JoolsTopp

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Jools topp

Jools Topp is one half of performing duo The Topp Twins. The sisters have taken their songs and comic characters to stages around the world — and onto television screens, via hit shows Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set and Topp Country. The duo's story was told in 2009's Untouchable Girls, one of the most successful local documentary released in New Zealand cinemas.

Biography

Singing sisters The Topp Twins influenced a generation of Kiwi entertainers. As musician Don McGlashan writes in this Topp Twins Collection, the twins "swaggered into the limelight and stayed there; courting, and being rapturously embraced by, a wide audience, including quite conservative people, while never softening their outspoken stances on many current issues".  

Screenography

Awards

2018 Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
For Services to Entertainment 

2017 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Presenter - Entertainment (shared with Lynda Topp): for Topp Country, season two

“The most political stage is right now, because we are taking a known lesbian act and we're putting it on prime time TV and we're getting mums and dads and kids to watch it.”

— Jools Topp

Related images

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Jools Topp (left) and Lynda Topp (right).
Photographer: Craig Simcox. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
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The Topp Twins hit Wellington. Jools Topp (left) and Lynda Topp (right).
Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
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Lynda Topp (left) and Jools Topp (right) are made Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004. They were made Dames Companion of the Order in 2018.
Photographer: Craig Simcox. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
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Jools Topp (left) and Lynda Topp (right).
Photographer: Craig Simcox. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
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Lynda Topp (left) and Jools Topp (right).
Kindly supplied by Arani Cuthbert of Diva Productions.
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The Topp Twins meet Xena Warrior Princess in documentary In Search of the Lonesome Yodel (2000). From left to right, Jools Topp, Lucy Lawless and Lynda Topp.
©TVNZ
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From left to right:  The Topp Twins - Untouchable Girls director Leanne Pooley, producer Arani Cuthbert, Lynda Topp and Jools Topp with their 2009 Qantas Film and Television Award for Best Feature Film costing under $1 Million.
Photo supplied by Throng.