- Kerry Armstrong, Prisoner (UK/US: Prisoner: Cell Block H, TV, Australia, 1979-1985. “If prison is hell for a man, imagine what it’s like for a woman…” Mann was first considered for Lynn Warner, one of the early leads in the jailbirds’ soap before the arrival of Bea Smith… and The Freak!
- Judy McBurney, Prisoner (UK/US: Prisoner: Cell Block H, TV, Australia, 1979-1985. Mann was also seen for Marilyn ‘Pixie’ Mason before becoming the inept, easily led tragi-comic Doreen Burns – of the Bea–Lizzie-Doreen jailbird triumvirate, more or less running Melbourne’s high security Wentworth Detention Centre. Inspired by the UK 70’s Within These Walls, the huge down-under success was booked in 1979 for 16 episodes – finally folding after 692. Producer Reg Watson then created Neighbours… still running after 7,000 episodes! (Only Canada dared to Cormanise the title: Caged Women).
Birth year: Death year: Other name: Casting Calls: 2