Carole Skinner

Skinner comenzó su carrera como actriz en 1966 y alcanzó la fama inicialmente como intérprete teatral consolidada. Su interpretación de Olive en una producción de Summer of the Seventeenth Doll para la Melbourne Theatre Company en 1977 fue muy aclamada. ^{[ 2 ]}

Se hizo muy conocida por sus papeles en la pantalla, especialmente en televisión, haciendo su debut en 1971, cuando hizo una aparición especial en la serie australiana Dynasty (sin relación con la serie estadounidense del mismo título), antes de pasar a ser un personaje regular en Lane End (una serie derivada de la serie Bellbird ), y otros papeles como invitada en Certain Women , The Evil Touch , Ryan , Behind the Legend y The Young Doctors .

Skinner became best known locally and internationally for her six-month stint as Nola McKenzie in the Network 10 soap opera, Prisoner (known outside of Australia as Prisoner: Cell Block H), during its fifth season in 1983. She later admitted that it was her choice to leave the series after producers offered to extend her contract to continue playing Nola. The character was killed-off in one of the series most iconic scenes, when she was shot in the forehead with a zip gun.^[3] This was followed by guest roles in soap operas and drama series', including Sons and Daughters, as Doris Hudson, a house-keeper obsessed with her boss, in which she attempted to smother toddler Robert Palmer in the series' 1985 season cliffhanger episode,^[4] as Laura Dennison in Neighbours in 1986,^[5] and briefly appearances in The Flying Doctors and A Country Practice.