Joy Smithers
Born: 1963-07-15 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Known For: Acting
Biography
Joy Smithers (born 15 July 1963) is an Australian actress, best known for her acting performances on television, and her role as a television news presenter, such as with MTV Australia in the late 1980s. Her credits include: All The Way, Bangkok Hilton, The Flying Doctors, Home and Away, Lorca and the Outlaws, Wildside and All Saints. For a short time she was co-host of Good Morning Australia. In September 2008 Smithers made a return to acting, as Bridget Simmons in Home and Away. Smithers appeared in the 2008 Australian surfing film Newcastle, as well as the 2015 action film Mad Max: Fury Road. At the age of 15, Smithers was offered the role of Max Rockatansky's wife, Jessie, in the original 1979 Mad Max, but was forced to decline after her parents would not let her travel to Adelaide for production.
Filmography
2021
- Amazing Grace as Maureen
2015
- Mad Max: Fury Road as The Vuvalini
2012
- Status Update - A Facebook Fairytale as Genevieve
2010
- Lest We Forget as Bell
2008
- Newcastle as Flora
2004
- Love in the First Degree as Leslie Barrett
1998
- All Saints as Rose Carleton
1997
- Wildside as Natasha Lodans
- Big Sky as Grace
- Heart of Fire as Julie Stoler
- River Street as Marcia
- Little White Lies as Reb
1996
- Water Rats as Gabi Cunningham
1995
- Blue Murder as Debra Smith
- Sex Is a Four Letter Word as Sylvia
1994
- Heartbreak High as Cassandra
- The Custodian as Helen Quinlan
- The Seventh Floor as Tracey
1989
- E Street as Helen McCarthur
- Bangkok Hilton as Mandy Engels
- Bodysurfer as Lydia
1986
- The Flying Doctors as Kerry Samuelson
1984
- Lorca and the Outlaws as Lena