Mary-Anne Fahey
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Mary-Anne Fahey (born 19 August 1955 as Mary-Anne Waterman) is a talented and versatile Australian actor, comedian and writer.
Mary-Anne has starred in and written for comedy programs including The Comedy Company, Kittson, Fahey (the first Australian female-only sketch comedy program), Get a Life and One Size Fits All. She also had roles in The Dunera Boys, All the Rivers Run II, Celia, Lucky Break and SeaChange. She has also had roles in theatre including Mary Lives. She is most famous for her work on Channel Ten's The Comedy Company especially for her school girl character, Kylie Mole, and three year old "Jophesine", the Play School Sketches with Glenn Robbins and the Bedscene sketches with her then real life husband Ian McFadyen.
Mary-Anne's Kylie Mole character - a scowling schoolgirl - was so phenomenally popular she released the best selling novel 'My Diary by Kylie Mole' and released the Double A-Side single "So Excellent"/"I Go, I Go" which was hit #8 on the Australian ARIA chart in November 1988.
Mary-Anne Fahey also won a 1989 Logie Award for Most Popular Light Entertainment/Comedy Personality for her work on The Comedy Company.
Mary-Anne has two sons Thomas Fahey (from her first marriage) and James McFadyen (born 12 July 1990) Mary-Anne and Ian McFadyen split up in 1992. Since 1994 her partner has been Children's writer Morris Gleitzman (He also has a background in comedy writing as a former writer for The Norman Gunston Show and satirical columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.)
Mary-Anne is currently living in Melbourne and is now concentrating on writing, and children's theatre.
