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LyndaTopp

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Lynda Topp is one half of the Topp Twins, the singing sisters who have plucked their way across the country and the globe thanks to a unique brand of comedy and country music. Topp Twins - Untouchable Girls became one of New Zealand's most successful big screen documentaries. In 2014 the twins presented TV series Topp Country, which became the third most watched local programme of the year. 

Screenography

Sunday - The Topp Twins
2022 Subject Television
Wellington Paranormal - Covid-19
2020 As: Officer O'Leary's Mum Web

Biography

Lynda Topp has delighted audiences from Gore to Nashville, bringing her larger-than-life characters and impressive yodelling to her musical and comedy partnership with twin sister Jools. According to Jools, "the first time Lynda heard a yodel she went into this sort of swoon and became obsessed about learning it".

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 Jools Topp): for Topp Country, season two

“Yodelling is a dying art. Not a lot of people are doing it, but a lot have died in the attempt.”

— Yodeller Lynda 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.
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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.