Tina Bursill

Tina Bursill
Bursill in 2012
Born (1951-07-24) 24 July 1951
Sydney, Australia
OccupationActress
Years active1973–present
Notable workSkyways (1979–1981)
Prisoner (1983–1984)
Doctor Doctor (2016–2021)

Tina Bursill (born 24 July 1951) is an Australian actress. She played Louise Carter on the television series Skyways (1979–1981) and Sonia Stevens on Prisoner (1983–1984). She played Meryl Knight in the Nine Network drama series Doctor Doctor. Bursill won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1987 film Jilted.

Early life

Tina Bursill was born on 24 July 1951, in Sydney.

Bursill's father, Keith, worked as an apprentice marine engineer on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour from the age of 15, and joined the merchant marines when Bursill was a baby, travelling for about 14 years. He was diagnosed with asbestosis in the 1980s.[1] Her mother was a talented coloratura soprano, but did not follow her dreams. She had a love of painting, film and theatre and frequently took Bursill to see live shows from a very young age.[2]

During the school holidays, Bursill would visit her paternal grandfather, who was a builder, in Forster, on the mid-north New South Wales coast.[1]

Bursill met her first boyfriend when she was 15 and they were together for several years. She thought it would lead to marriage and babies, but it was not to be.[1]

Initially, Bursill intended to pursue a career in anthropology, however, she set her sights on becoming an actress. She was initially rejected from National Institute of Dramatic Art,[1] but later studied there.[2]

Career

Theatre

Bursill started her career in musicals and stand-up comedy, including stagings of Grease (1972) and Godspell (1972–1973), before being cast in more serious theatre productions, such as Zastrozzi (1982) and On Golden Pond (1992). She also starred in Macbeth as Lady Macbeth for Sydney's Ensemble Theatre.[3][4]

More recently, Bursill was in a 2022 production of Cinderella with Opera Australia and a 2024 staging of The Children with STCSA.[3][4]

Television

Bursill made her television debut in 1973, appearing in the lead role of short-lived comedy series The People Next Door,[5] as Meg Penrose.[4] She was a regular character alongside Michele Fawdon and Tony Sheldon in daily soap opera The Unisexers which was launched in 1975 on the Nine Network, however the program's low ratings led to its cancellation and removal from broadcast after only three weeks.[6][7]

Following this were several guest appearances, before she received the role of ambitious assistant airport manager Louise Carter in Seven Network drama series Skyways, for which she appeared in 109 episodes from 1979[8][5] to 1981. During this period, Bursill also had a recurring role on police drama series, King's Men between 1976 and 1980, as undercover policewoman, 'Jaybee' Giddings. However, low ratings ensured the series was axed after only 13 episodes.[9]

In 1982, Bursill appeared in ten-part ABC drama miniseries Winner Take All, as Liz Bell, mistress of the main character Dick Coleman’s mistress, mining company employee.[10] The following year, she was cast in the role of Sonia Stevens on Network Ten's cult classic prison drama series Prisoner (Prisoner: Cell Block H), in which she was introduced in the fifth season as a devious ice queen, imprisoned for heroin trafficking. She remained in the series until 1984. After departing Prisoner, Bursill appeared in recurring roles in A Country Practice as Bianca Forbes-Hamilton (1981) and Cecily Day (1985)[4] and Hey Dad..! as Det. Sgt. Anne Burke (1987).[4]

Bursill had a recurring role on the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away in 1992, as schoolteacher Lois Crawford. She later also played the recurring role Stella Patterson from 2001 to 2002.[11] In 1997, she landed a role in Heartbreak High from season five, portraying Hilary Scheppers[12] (the mother of characters Ryan and Anita),[13] after having previously appeared in the series a year earlier as TV news reporter, Trish Ferro.[14]

Bursill portrayed Moody family matriarch, Maree, in the 2011 miniseries A Moody Christmas.[11] She then reprised her role as Maree in the series follow-up, The Moodys, in 2014.[4] Also in 2014, she had a recurring guest role in drama series The Time of Our Lives, as Lenore,[8] the alcoholic mother of Herb (Stephen Curry).[15] That same year, during its thirtieth season, Bursill appeared in long-running soap opera Neighbours, in the recurring role of Kathy Carpenter,[16] mother of Lauren Turner (Kate Kendall) and ex-wife of Lou Carpenter (Tom Oliver). She had previously appeared opposite Oliver in King's Men.[17]

Bursill took a brief hiatus from acting, to care full time for her ailing father. Six weeks after he died, she auditioned for drama series Doctor Doctor[2] landing the role of Meryl Knight, mayor and mother of disgraced surgeon Hugh Knight (Rodger Corser), in 2016.[8] Steve Bisley played the role of her husband.[1] She portrayed Meryl for seasons one to five.[4] The role saw her nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 2017. The following year she was nominated once more, this time for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[18][4]

Almost 40 years after appearing in Prisoner, Bursill featured in the 2021 final season of the show's reimagining, Wentworth, in the role of murderer Eve Wilder, a role originated by Lynda Stoner in the original series.[19][20] Bursill's original Prisoner role of Sonia Stevens had been reimagined by Sigrid Thornton, not long prior.[20]

In 2023, Bursill had a recurring role in six-part mystery drama series One Night, as Helen Owen, the estranged mother of Tess, played by English actress Jodie Whittaker.[21][22] She then appeared in Foxtel/Binge drama Strife, also returning for the second season.[23] In 2023, Bursill also had a role in Stan post-war series Ten Pound Poms, playing Mrs Walker, mother of JJ, played by Stephen Curry (making it the second series in which she played Curry's mother). She reprised the role in the show's second season in 2025.[24][25]

2026 saw Bursill appear in her first children's series Caper Crew, for ABC, playing stylishly dressed grandmother, Queenie.[26] On 27 March 2026, she was named in the extended cast for the third season of Return to Paradise, the Australian spin-off of British crime series Death in Paradise.[27]

Film

Bursill made her feature film debut in 1975 when she was cast in The Great Macarthy, a football-based comedy with John Jarratt and Barry Humphries.[28][1] Her next film role came in 1984, when she appeared in Melvin, Son of Alvin (the second sequel to the 1973 comedy, Alvin Purple), as 60 Minutes-style reporter, Dee Tanner.[29] In 1987, she starred in Jilted,[30] which earned her an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.[31]

Further film credits include Afraid to Dance (1988), Spider and Rose (1994), Billy's Holiday (1995), The Goddess of 1967 (2000), Son of the Mask (2005), Three Blind Mice (2007), Wish You Were Here (2012) and The Flip Side (2018).[4][32]

She has also had roles in several made-for-television films, including biopic Never Tell Me Never (1998) alongside Claudia Karvan and Michael Caton,[33] Aftershocks (1998), a docudrama about the 1989 Newcastle earthquake with Jeremy Sims, Susie Porter and Lynette Curran,[34] and Heroes' Mountain (2002), retelling the true story of the 1997 Thredbo landslide and the plight of Stuart Diver (as played by Craig McLachlan).[35] In 2013, she played the role of Pat in the TV film Jack Irish: Dead Point, opposite Guy Pearce in the title role. This also reunited her with her The Great Macarthy co-star Barry Humphries.[1][4]

Personal life

Bursill was in an on-and-off relationship with Australian singer Shirley Strachan, while she was working on the series Skyways and during Strachan's tenure on Shirl's Neighbourhood. The pair also did several charity junkets together during that time.[5] Bursill has never been married but her most significant relationship lasted 14 years and she is on good terms with both him and his two daughters.[1]

Bursill's father had a stroke in the late 1990s and then a mini-stroke in 2015, so she moved in with him to care for him in the final year of his life. Her mother died of dementia in 2013.[1]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Type Ref.
1973 Solomon TV film [36]
1975 The Great Macarthy Miss Deevil Feature film [28][1][4]
1978 A Good Thing Going Jeanette TV film [4]
1984 Melvin, Son of Alvin Reporter Dee Tanner Feature film [29][4]
1985 Robbery Suzy TV film
1986 The Three Musketeers Voice Animated TV film
A Single Life Billie Russell TV film
1987 Jilted Paula Feature film [30][4]
1989 Afraid to Dance Driving Woman Feature film [4]
1991 Dusty Hearts Short film [37]
1992 The Distant Home Dr. Rosen TV film [4]
1994 Spider and Rose Sister Abbott Feature film [4]
1995 Billy's Holiday Louise Feature film [4]
1997 Entertaining Angels Dr Crystal Stein Short film [38][4]
1998 Never Tell Me Never Virginia TV film [33]
Aftershocks Kerri Ingram TV film [34][4]
2000 The Goddess of 1967 Esther Feature film [4]
Cheek to Cheek Julie Short film [39][4]
2002 Heroes' Mountain Margy Donald TV film [35][4]
2003 Saturn's Return Sheila Short film (also part of the French anthology film Courts mais GAY: Tome 5 [40][4]
BlackJack Carmen Seaton TV film [4]
The Hit Short film [41]
2004 Small Claims Rhonda TV film [42]
Plains Empty Bar Woman Short film [43][4][4]
2005 Son of the Mask Network Executive Feature film [4]
2007 Shuffle Denise Short film [44][4]
One of the Lucky Ones Additional Voice (voice) Short film
Pleasance Marie Short film [45][4]
2008 Three Blind Mice Candy Feature film [4]
2011 Random 8 Narrator / Investigator Short film [46]
2012 Wish You Were Here Margie McKinney Feature film [4]
2013 Bloody Henry Jane Short film [47]
2014 Jack Irish: Dead Point Pat TV film [4]
2015 Going Down Short film [48][4]
2018 The Flip Side Iris Feature film [49][4]
Julia Helen Short film [4]

Television

Year Title Role Type Ref
1973 The People Next Door Meg Penrose 20 episodes [5][4]
1974 Silent Number Annette 1 episode
A Touch of Reverence Miniseries
1975 The Unisexers Felicity 16 episodes [6][7]
Matlock Police Jennifer Craig 1 episode
The Dave Allen Show in Australia Various characters
1976 Alvin Purple Bernice Episode 9: "The Rhythm Method" [4][50]
King's Men Policewoman Jaybee Giddings 13 episodes [9]
The Emigrants Nurse Watson Episode 3: "13,000 Miles Away"
1978 Chopper Squad Mother Season 1, episode 12: "Dangerous Weapon" [51]
1979 The Oracle 1 episode
1979–1980 Skyways Louise Carter 136 episodes [5]
1981 Holiday Island Elizabeth Episode 27: "Never Too Old"
1981; 1986 A Country Practice Bianca Forbes-Hamilton / Cecily Day 2 episodes / 14 episodes [4]
1982 Winner Take All Liz Bell Miniseries, 10 episodes [10]
1983–1984 Prisoner Sonia Stevens 54 episodes
1984 Special Squad Meredith Episode 25: "The Bribe"
1985 The Fast Lane Felicity 1 episode [52]
1987 Australian Traineeship System Herself Documentary
Willing and Abel Margaret Hill 3 episodes
Hey Dad...! Det. Sgt. Anne Burke 6 episodes [4]
1987–1988 Rafferty's Rules Erica Jamison 2 episodes [53][54]
1989 This Man... This Woman Liz Maddocks Miniseries, 2 episodes [4][55]
1990 Jackaroo Martha Logan Miniseries, 2 episodes [4]
The Flying Doctors Billie Sorensen Season 7, episode 15: "Billie and Pete" [4][56]
1991; 1995 G.P. Caroline Lalor / Adele Meyer 2 episodes [4]
1991; 2002 Home and Away Lois Crawford / Stella Patterson 31 episodes [11]
1992 Bony Peta Episode 6: "Surf, Sun... and Murder" [4]
EEO Free For All Forum Narrator Documentary
1993 Cluedo 1 episode
1994 Mother and Son Carmen 1 episode [57]
Under The Skin Julie Episode 9: "Long Way Round"
The Ferals White Ant (voice) Season 1, episode 10: "Exam Fever" [58]
1995 Over the Hill 1 episode
1996; 1997 Heartbreak High Trish Ferra / Hilary Scheppers 1 episode / 36 episodes [12][13][14][4]
1996 Pacific Drive 1 episode
1998 Murder Call Lori Magnus Season 2, episode 3 [4][59]
1999; 2008 All Saints Robyn Simms / Helen Fahey / Margaret Evans 3 episodes
2000 Farscape Empress Novia 3 episodes [4]
2001; 2002 BackBerner Jennie Turk / Naomi Kennedy 2 episodes [4]
2001 Corridors of Power Petra 1 episode
2002 MDA Dr. Ruth McIntyre 1 episode [4][60]
2003 Grass Roots Ariadne Totos Season 2, 1 episode [4][61]
Always Greener Lucy Buckingham 2 episodes [4]
White Collar Blue Carole 1 episode [4]
2004 Out There Jean Filson Season 2, episode 10 [4][62]
2005 Blue Water High Katrina 1 episode [63]
Dramatically Black 1 episode [64]
2011 Offspring Marilyn 2 episodes [4]
Crownies Magistrate Ellen Hansby 1 episode [4][65]
2012 Rake Miriam Season 2, 1 episode [4][66]
A Moody Christmas Maree Moody 6 episodes [11][4]
2013–2014 The Time of Our Lives Lenore 3 episodes [8][4]
2014 The Moodys Maree Moody 8 episodes [67][4]
2014; 2016 Neighbours Kathy Carpenter 21 episodes [68][16][4]
2016–2021 Doctor Doctor Meryl Knight 48 episodes [69][8][4]
2017 Drop Dead Weird Tweedy Lady 1 episode [4][70]
2019 Harrow Alice Hobson Season 2, 1 episode [71]
Sarah's Channel Mole Person Web series [4][72]
2021 Wentworth Eve Wilder Season 8, 3 episodes [19][20][4]
Frayed Cathy 1 episode [73]
2023 One Night Helen 4 episodes [74][21][22][4]
2023–2025 Strife Ginny Season 2, 16 episodes [75][23][4]
2023–2025 Ten Pound Poms Mrs. Walker 9 episodes [24][25][4]
2026 Caper Crew Queenie TV series [76][26][4]
Return to Paradise TBA TV series [27]

Other appearances

Year Title Role Type
1976 Celebrity Squares Contestant 1 episode
1985 Blankety Blanks Contestant 2 episodes
1987 Have A Go Judge 3 episodes
1991 The Main Event Contestant 1 episode
2019 Talkin' Bout Your Generation Contestant 1 episode

Stage

Year Title Role Type Ref.
1971 Theatre In Education
Hippolytus UNSW Old Tote Theatre, Sydney [3]
Lady Windemere's Fan Lady Windemere NIDA Theatre, Sydney [3]
1972 Grease Marty Metro Theatre, Melbourne with Harry M. Miller [3][4]
Great Banana Split Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane [77]
1972–1973 Godspell Richbroke Theatre [4]
1974 Scandals of '74 Macleay Theatre, Sydney [3]
1975 The Jockey Club Stakes Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide & Princess Theatre Melbourne [3]
1977 Son of Naked Vicar The Speakeasy, Sydney [3]
The Big Bang Show [3]
Mothers and Fathers UNSW Parade Theatre, Sydney [3]
1977–1978, 1983 Beyond Mozambique Rita Nimrod Theatre Company, Sydney [3]
1978 2001 – A Postcode Kinselas, Sydney [3]
1981 Catch a Rising Star Melbourne Theatre Restaurant [3]
1982 Zastrozzi Matilda Seymour Centre, Sydney [3]
1985 Tomfoolery Various roles Seymour Centre, Sydney for Festival of Sydney [3][4]
1986; 1990 Rough Crossing Natasha Navratilova Playhouse Adelaide, Sydney Opera House, Playhouse Canberra [3][4]
1988 Manning Clark's History of Australia – The Musical Elizabeth Macarthur, St Peter, Caroline Chisholm, Kate Kelly, Lady Carrington. Princess Theatre, Melbourne [3][4]
1989 Top Silk Jane Fredericks Australian tour with Kinsella Productions [3][4][78]
1992 On Golden Pond Chelsea Thayer Marian St Theatre, Sydney [3][4]
Macbeth Lady Macbeth Ensemble Theatre, Sydney [3][4]
1993 The Sugar Mother Cecilia Page Bridge Theatre, Sydney & Sydney Opera House [3][4]
1994 Don't Dress for Dinner Susanne Regal Theatre, Perth, Canberra Theatre, Newcastle Civic Theatre with Ginmar Productions [3][4]
1998 Blinded by the Sun Ghislane Sydney Opera House [3][4]
1999 23 Blooms on My Great Grandmother's Rosebush Sarah Iland Robinson Productions [4]
2001 Up for Grabs Dawn Grey NSW/VIC/ACT tour [3][4][79]
2003 Purgatory Down Under Sydney Opera House [3]
2004 The Vagina Monologues University of Sydney [3]
2005 Flatfoot Cleostrata Australian national tour with Ensemble Theatre [3][4]
2006 Double Act Alexandra Australian regional tour with Hit Productions [3][4]
2007 ALP Arts Election Launch Riverside Theatres Parramatta [3]
2008 Small Metal Objects Carolyn USA, Europe & Asia tour with Back to Back Theatre [3][4]
2010 The Swimming Club Laura Southbank Theatre, Melbourne, Playhouse Perth with Black Swan Theatre, Geelong Westfield with MTC [3][4]
Vita & Virginia Vita Actors Forum [4]
Maralinga Various Alphaville [4]
2015 The Man's Bitch (reading) Angela Carter / Angelica Green STC [80][4]
Boys Will Be Boys Arthur Wharf Theatre, Sydney with STC [3][4]
2017 Me and My Girl The Duchess of Dene Hayes Theatre Co [3][4]
2018 The Feather in the Web Various Stables Theatre, Sydney with Griffin Theatre Company [3][4]
2022 Love Letters Melissa Gardner Ensemble Theatre, Sydney with Les Currie Productions [3][4]
Cinderella Madame (Stepmother) Sydney Lyric Theatre, Regent Theatre, Melbourne with Opera Australia [3][81][4]
2024 The Children Rose Dunstan Playhouse with STCSA [3][4]

Radio

Year Title Role Type Ref.
2015 A Thoroughly Wet Mess Claire Delacroix ABC Radio National [4][82]

Awards & nominations

Year Nominated work Award Category Result Ref.
1987 Jilted Australian Film Institute Awards Best Actress in a Supporting Role Won [31]
2002 Up for Grabs Mo Awards Best Female Actor in a Play Nominated [4]
2013 A Moody Christmas Equity Ensemble Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won [4]
2015 The Moodys Won [4]
2017 Doctor Doctor AACTA Awards Best Supporting Actress Nominated [4][18]
2018 Best Actress Nominated [18][4]

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