Liddy Holloway

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Liddy Holloway (1945–December 29, 2004) was an actor born in Wellington, New Zealand. The daughter of a cabinet minister, Holloway originally worked as a journalist. She switched to acting and had a long career in the theater. She also acted in Australia in the early 1980s, with acting roles in feature films Squizzy Taylor and The Clinic. She also acted on Australian television, appearing in guest roles in several episodes of soap opera Prisoner, a series for which she also wrote some scripts.

Holloway moved to Los Angeles briefly in 1990 to give Hollywood a try, but quickly returned to the native land she had missed in her absence. Holloway did eventually garner international attention for her recurring role as Hercules' mother on the syndicated adventure series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, a role she played intermittenly from 1995 to 1998.

Holloway also found wide recognition in her home country through her 1992-1998 lead role of Alex McKenna in the popular soap opera Shortland Street. Holloway was also a writer for the series.

She was the first person to champion making the book The Whale Rider into a feature film. Holloway fought with the Film Commission because she wanted a writing credit for her work on the 2002 feature.

On December 29, 2004 she died after a long battle with liver cancer, leaving behind three children, Francesca, Mark Harlen (a director) and actor/ musician Joel Tobeck, who appeared with her on Shortland Street.