Rosalind Speirs (born 1951) is an Australian former film and television actress. She starred on several television series during the 1970s, including Silent Number, Heidi [de] and the television miniseries Power Without Glory. It was her role as Nellie Moran, wife of the main character John West (Martin Vaughan), that earned her a Logie Award for "Most Popular Australian Lead Actress" in 1977. Speirs was also a guest star in a storyline of Prisoner in 1980.

Career

Rosalind Speirs made her acting debut in the 1974 film Stone where she had a minor role as a prostitute. In her next film, The Man from Hong Kong (1975), she had a more substantial role playing the lead female Caroline Thorne.^[1] That same year, Speirs played herself in the grindhouse documentary film The Love Epidemic (1975). She also began a successful career in television appearing on Silent Number^[2][3][4] and Power Without Glory. At the 1977 Logie Awards, she won a Logie Award for "Most Popular Australian Lead Actress" for her portrayal of Nellie Moran in Power Without Glory.

She also appeared on The Restless Years and Heidi [de], playing a recurring character Aunt Dete in the latter series. In 1980, Speirs was cast as Caroline Simpson in the series Prisoner.^[5][6][7] She portrayed a young woman who, with her mother Vivienne Williams (Bernadette Gibson), were charged with the murder of her alcoholic and abusive father. Although she appeared in the series for a brief time, her character was involved in a number of significant storylines. These included their initial introduction at the original halfway house^[8] and becoming romantically involved with prison officer Deputy Governor Jim Fletcher (Gerard Maguire).^[9] She eventually left the series to become an agent^[10] appearing in her final role in the horror film Alison's Birthday (1981).^{[11][12][13][14]}

Filmography

FILM

TELEVISION