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Leila Hayes

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Leila Hayes
Born
Leila Hayes

c. 1941/1942 (aged 82-83)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • actors agent
  • playwright
  • radio personality
  • theatre producer
  • singer
  • drama teacher and drama school founder
  • singer
Years active1971–1992, 2005 (film & television actress)
SpouseRon Connelly
ChildrenMelissa Connelly

Leila Hayes (born c.1941/1942)[1] is an retired Australian actress, actors agent, radio presenter, playwright, producer, singer and drama teacher, she primarily featured in guest roles in soap operas and miniseries, prior to her regular role in 1980s soap opera Sons and Daughters as matriarch Beryl Palmer (later Hamilton) appearing throughout its entire run, opposite Tom Richards as her husband David, in the series she was well known for her regular clashes with Rowena Wallaces iconic Patrica Hamilton.

Biography

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Hayes was born in Dimboola, AustralIa around 1941-1942 and began her career as a singer before starting her acting career in the early 1970s in guest roles in Crawford Productions drama series Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, Bluey, Cop Shop, and The Sullivans.[2]

Hayes also acted in television miniseries, including Power Without Glory (1976), and some TV movies. In 1981 she appeared in several episodes of Prisoner as brothel madam Jeannie Baxter and was in an early episode of A Country Practice. The same episode starred Peter Phelps who played her stepson John in Sons and Daughters only a few months later.

Hayes also acted on stage, taking the leading role of April Delaney in comedy Dimboola ran her and worked in talkback radio.

She has mainly retired from acting since 1992 (except for a short film in 2005) and lives a private life and rarely attending reunions or conventions. Since then she ran her own actors school called The Leila Hayes Drama Studio

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Type
1977 Blue Fire Lady Old Lady Feature film
2005 Chasing Down the Dawn Margot Film short

Television

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Year Title Role Type
1971–76 Homicide Mrs. Sullivan / Norma Franks / Policewoman Quinn / Joan Hansen / Gloria Mason / Libby Marshall TV series, 6 episodes
1971–74 Division 4 Marge Reilly / Mrs. Darcy / Mrs. Arnot / Martha Moore / Pat Green / Dorrie / Mrs. Wright / Miss Hobbs / Smithy’s Mother / Jean / Alison Scott TV series, 11 episodes
1971–74 Matlock Police Natalie / Jean Stewart / Norma Richards TV series, 3 episodes
1971-73 Penthouse Club Herself - Singer TV series, 3 episodes
1975 Cash and Company Lola TV series, Season 1, 1 episode
1976 The Professional Touch Teleplay
1976 Bellbird TV series, 1 episode
1976 Power Without Glory Florrie Robinson TV miniseries, Season 1, 6 episodes
1976; 1977 Bluey Georgie TV series, Season 1, 2 episodes
1978–79 Cop Shop Mrs. Ward / Mrs. Selby / Marjorie Brown / Joan TV series, 4 episodes
1978 The Truckies TV series, Season 1, 1 episode
1978 The Sullivans Anne Watson TV series, 4 episodes
1979 Twenty Good Years Joyce Fielding TV series, Season 1, 1 episode
1981 Prisoner Jeannie Baxter TV series, Season 3, 4 episodes
1981 I Can Jump Puddles Miss. Bryce TV Miniseries; 1 episode
1981; 1990–91 A Country Practice Sue Bushell TV series, 2 episodes
1982–87 Sons and Daughters Beryl Palmer / Beryl Hamilton / Ruby Hawkins TV series, Seasons 1–6; 966 episodes
1982 M.P.S.I.B. Judith Levine TV series, Season 1; 1 episode
1984 Miss N.S.W 1984 Guest - Herself TV special
1986 Punchlines Herself TV special
1989 60 Minutes Herself (with Abigail) TV series, 1 episode
1990–1991 A Country Practice

Mrs. Burns

TV series, Seasons 1; 10–11; 3 episodes
1992 Boys from the Bush Daphne TV series, Season 2, 1 episode
1994 Good Morning Australia Guest TV series, 1 episode

Notes

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  1. ^ "AUSSIE SOAP STARS WHO VANISHED!".
  2. ^ Atterton, Margot. (Ed.) The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Australian Showbiz, Sunshine Books, 1984. ISBN 0-86777-057-0 p 86
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