Dropping the Mask

Noni Hazlehurst

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01 October 2024

Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Television; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs; Biography - Australian

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An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own.

A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood. She has graced our screens, stages and airwaves for fifty years - and won our hearts and respect in the process. She's had a remarkably diverse career. From presenting Play School for more than two decades, acting in films such as June Again, Ladies in Black, Candy, Little Fish and Monkey Grip, and ten years hosting and writing for Better Homes and Gardens to playing lead roles in series like A Place to Call Home, Nancy Wake and The Shiralee, recently presenting the SBS documentary series Every Family Has a Secret, and of course her numerous theatre roles, including her award-winning one-woman play Mother, Noni continues to display her incredible versatility, range and incisive ability to get to the core of a character and script.

Noni is more than an actor, though. She is also a director, writer, teacher and public speaker, and her time on Play School has led to decades of committed advocacy for children. Offscreen, she has served on several film and television industry boards and acted as a patron and ambassador for numerous children's welfare organisations.

Brave, open and unafraid to be vulnerable, Noni is in many ways an ordinary woman - a single mother of two boys, and a freelance worker, she knows about the challenges of constant juggling and being stretched to the limit. Yet she is also an extraordinary woman and a trailblazer - she was only the second woman to be inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame in thirty-two years. And despite opportunities to live and work overseas, she ultimately chose to pursue her career in Australia.

This is no ordinary memoir. Noni Hazlehurst is funny, fierce, thoughtful and clear-eyed about the world. Her story is full, rich, lively, opinionated - and a testament to her grit, willpower and talent. She has always been committed to telling Australian stories - and this memoir is an impressive addition to her remarkable opus.

By: Noni Hazlehurst
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 662g
ISBN: 9781460759042
ISBN 10: 1460759044
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Actor, presenter and broadcaster Noni Hazlehurst AM studied drama at Flinders University in South Australia, and after graduating gained roles in television shows Division 4, Homicide, Matlock Police and The Sullivans. From 1978 to 2001 she was a regular presenter on Playschool. She has won an AFI for Best Actress twice, in 1982 for Monkey Grip, the film adaptation of Helen Garner's novel, and in 1985 for Fran, a harrowing story of a self-destructive single mother. In 2005 she was named Best Supporting Actress for Little Fish. Her performance in Waiting at the Royal (2000) won her the AFI for Best Actress in a television mini-series. Her other films include Candy (2006); Bruce Beresford's adaptation of Henry Handel Richardson's The Getting of Wisdom (1977); and his Ladies in Black (2018), for which Hazlehurst received an AACTA nomination and was named Best Supporting Actress at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Hazlehurst was the anchor of the Seven Network's Better Homes and Gardens from 1995 to 2004, and for SBS she has presented three seasons of Every Family Has a Secret. She had a lead role in all six seasons of A Place to Call Home (2013-2018). In 1995 she was named a Member of the Order of Australia.