Joanne Samuel

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1957-08-05 (67 years old)

Place of Birth Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Joanne Samuel

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joanne Samuel (born 1957 in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia) is an actress who remains best known for her role as the screen wife of Mel Gibson in the 1979 film Mad Max. Prior to her appearance in the film, Samuel had made guest appearances in police procedurals Matlock Police and Homicide. She was then a regular cast member in television soap operas Class of '74, The Sullivans and The Young Doctors. She left The Young Doctors very suddenly – the producers kindly wrote her out of the show quickly as she was offered the Mad Max role after a fellow Young Doctors actress who had been due to take the role fell ill. Samuel later returned to television in the regular role of Kelly Morgan-Young in Skyways (TV series). Samuel later guest starred in Hey Dad! as Jeanette Taylor and All Saints,  and played the school principal in The Wiggles in their film The Wiggles Movie. Samuel is married to Tony Ahern. They have several children. They live in the Blue Mountains suburb of Blackheath and Samuel has retired from acting. Samuel is active in the local Baptist church. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Samuel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

Known For

Actor

2024
2022
2021
Christmas Down Under

as Barbara Parker

2019
2018
Acute Misfortune

as Magistrate

2017
My Pet Dinosaur

as Doris Mercher

2015
1997
The Wiggles Movie

as Mrs. Bingle

1988
Nightmaster

as Sonia Spane

1988
1984
Queen of the Road

as Rosy Costello

1982
Early Frost

as Chris

1981
Mad Max 2

as Jessie Rockatansky (archive footage) (uncredited)

1981
Alison's Birthday

as Alison Findlay

1979
Mad Max

as Jessie Rockatansky

Director

2023
2020