| Judy McBurney | |
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| Born | 19 May 1948 Sydney, Australia |
Judy McBurney (born 19 May 1948) is an Australian actress famous in several television soap opera roles.
In 1974 McBurney was cast in the role of key new character Marilyn McDonald in Number 96 but before any of her scenes had gone to air and with about 30 scenes in the can she had to withdraw from the role due to illness. This left her replacement, Frances Hargreaves, to reshoot all of Marilyn's scenes.
McBurney then went into the on-going role of plain-Jane secretary Jane Fowler in The Box in late 1975, and later played the brief role of Jodi in Number 96 in late 1976.
Subsequent to this McBurney became immensely popular playing the part of nurse Tania Livingstone, love interest of at times Tony Garcia and Peter Holland, in The Young Doctors. She played the role from 1977 until the series ended in 1982. She followed this with another popular character, that of breezy romantic Sandra Louise "Pixie" Mason in Prisoner. She played Pixie on a recurring basis from 1983 until 1985. A spin-off sitcom based around the character was apparently once proposed, but never saw the light of day.
McBurney is also famous for her voice-over work and also starring in commercials, in particular a very cheeky, controversial ad from the 1980s for Palmolive Gold, which she features in a bed with fellow The Young Doctors actor Peter Bensley. McBurney leaves a cake of soap under his pillow, which led to the famous jingle and saying "Don't wait to be told".
Judy has appeared in a few episodes of Always Greener
She has now more or less retired from acting.