Davina Whitehouse
Davina Whitehouse’s career in performance spanned 70 years, from theatre and film roles in Britain between the 1920s and the 1940s to radio, theatre, television and film roles in New Zealand from the 1950s to the 2000s.
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Kathleen Dolan
Irish radio announcer
Nan Kent-Johnston
New Zealand community support activist
Ethel Lang
In 1924, she began working as a radio actress at 2FC, one of Australia’s first radio stations. In the 1930s she played a number of leading roles for ABC radio, including Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Jane Marryot in Noël Coward’s Cavalcade. During this time, she also worked extensively with 2SM and 2GB.
Bernie Dwyer
Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist
Amber Mae Cecil
By the age of 18 she was in constant demand as one of Australia’s leading radio stars. During the 1950s, Cecil played the lead in the radio serial Life Can be Beautiful, and had an ongoing role in the serial Doctor Paul. She played one of the Macarthur twins in Blue Hills until 1976 and later starred in several Shakespeare radio plays broadcast by ABC radio. She died in 1998.
Sheila Conroy
Irish trade unionist, social activist and administrator
Maureen Charlton
Irish playwright, poet and broadcaster
Grace Winifred Green
Green chalked up many firsts as a woman radio announcer in New Zealand and was always popular with listeners.
Kathleen O’Brien
For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand.