Lyndel Rowe is an Australian actress who is best known for her work with the Melbourne Theatre Company,[1] the Sydney Theatre Company[2] and the State Theatre Company of South Australia.[3] Ms. Rowe is now living in London. She is probably best known for her role as the unpleasant Karen Fox in Australian soap opera Sons And Daughters.
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Ms. Rowe joined the Union Repertory Company (now the Melbourne Theatre Company) - in productions including Patrick White's Season at Sarsparilla, Waltz of the Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Ghost Train; toured Australia with J.C. Williamson's Goodnight Mrs. Puffin, with Irene Handl.
Travelling to England, studied at The Royal Court Theatre Studio, with George Devine and Keith Johnstone. Then a production with the International Theatre Company of The Seventh Seal (Painting on Wood). From there into repertory and into the company of a West End lunch-time theatre, TheatreScope, doing weekly seasons of one act Tennessee Williams, Ionesco, Anouilh etc.
Invited back to the Melbourne Theatre Company at Russell Street; roles including: Nancy - The Knack, Raymonde - Flea in her Ear, Irina - Three Sisters, Mary Warren - The Crucible, Margery Pinchwife - The Country Wife, Sheila - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Sandy - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Clarice - Servant of Two Masters, Marina - Pericles, Pip - Moby Dick, Grace - London Assurance, Charlotte - The Magistrate, Celemene - The Misanthrope, Gwendolyn - The Importance of Being Earnest.
Productions with the Sydney Theatre Company including the roles of: Kate - The Taming of the Shrew, Rose Trelawney - Trelawney of the Wells, Sonya - Uncle Vanya, Marianne - Tartuffe, Charlotte - The Real Thing.
With the South Australian Theatre Company: Phoebe - As You Like It, Daphne - Old King Cole, Jill - David Williamson's Handful of Friends. At the Playbox, Sydney,[4] played Lucy in the musical - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. With Nimrod Street (now Belvoir St.[5] ), Gwendolyn - Stoppard's Travesties, and an Australian tour of Doctor in Love.
In England with the Liverpool Playhouse: Anna - Old Times, Dianne - Absent Friends, Raymonde - Flea in Her Ear.
In England, played Fenichka, in BBC's classical series of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Guest Episodes of Z-Cars, The Gentle Touch, Kate with Phylis Calvert, BBC play of the month, Death of a Salesman, with Rod Steiger. In Australia, the Mini-series, Melba. Guest episodes in ABC series, Crawfords, and she played Karen Fox in Grundy's Sons and Daughters. Was a member of Eric Tayler's, A.B.C. Television Repertory Company. Ms. Rowe has been awarded a Television Society Award, and a Logie Award.
In 2004 appeared with Lewis Fiander in Afterplay under the direction of Malcolm Robertson, a UTRC veteran, at FortyFive Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne[7]
Lyndel's other base has been London, where she has been absorbed in her writing - novels, short stories, a screenplay - which has become her new passion. She has essays published in Meanjin, and twice chosen for publication in The Best Australian Essays [8]