Ilona Rodgers is a British actress and television presenter who has lived and worked in several countries.

In the United Kingdom in 1964 she played the role of Carol in The Sensorites

The Sensorites

The Sensorites is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from June 20 to August 1, 1964. The story is notable for its early demonstration of Susan's telepathy and references to the Doctor and her home planet.-Plot:The...

, a six episode adventure of the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

. Other television roles included guest appearances in The Saint

The Saint (TV series)

The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character, Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer with a penchant for disguise. The character may be nicknamed The Saint because the...

and The Avengers

The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...

.

Rodgers lived in New Zealand from 1973, appearing in Close to Home. She lived in Australia between 1978 and 1985. She appeared in nine episodes of the Australian television drama Prisoner

Prisoner (TV series)

Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...

in 1983. Her character, Zara Moonbeam, was a medium who claimed to have clairvoyant powers. In the story she was coerced by Nola McKenzie (Carole Skinner) into impersonating Bea Smith's (Val Lehman) deceased daughter Debbie while suggesting to Bea that it was Debbie's ghost. Nola hoped it would drive Bea to suicide. However Bea figured out she was being tricked

Gaslighting

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 and got her revenge.

Other Australian appearances included the drama programs The Sullivans

The Sullivans

The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-classMelbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives...

, Sons and Daughters

Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series)

Sons and Daughters was a Logie Award winning Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation between 1981 and 1987. The first episode aired in December 1981, during the Christmas/New Year non-ratings period, and the official broadcast date of the final...

(as Patricia Hamilton's sister, Margaret Dunne) and the miniseries The Anzacs.

After relocating to New Zealand her work included the soap opera Shortland Street

Shortland Street

Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 4500 episodes and 19 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in...

and presenting duties on a light entertainment and advertorial

Advertorial

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 program called Good Morning

Good Morning (New Zealand show)

Good Morning is a New Zealand morning television magazine lifestyle show. It airs weekday mornings from 9am - 12pm on TV ONE. The show began in 1996 and is hosted by Jeanette Thomas and Rod Chesseman...

. From 1987 to 1990 she appeared in a television drama series Gloss as magazine doyenne Maxine Redfern. The series was about a fictional publishing empire run by the Redfern family. Another acting credit was on "The Billy T James Show" (1990) as Thelma.

Stage work has included the one-woman play Shirley Valentine

Shirley Valentine

Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad.-Plot:...

, By Degrees written by Roger Hall

Roger Hall

Roger Leighton Hall, CNZM, QSO is a British born New Zealander actor and playwright, known for his comedies that carry a serious vein of social criticism and feelings of pathos.-Early years:...

 and Three Tall Women

Three Tall Women

Three Tall Women is a play by Edward Albee, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Albee's third.-Characters:* A: She is a very old woman in her 90s. She is thin, autocratic, proud, and wealthy. She also has a mild case of Alzheimer's disease. * B: B is A's 52 year-old version, to whom she...

by Edward Albee

Edward Albee

Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story , The Sandbox , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , and a rewrite of the screenplay for the unsuccessful musical version of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's . His works are considered well-crafted, often...

.

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	ITV Play of the Week	Caroline Campbell	Episode: "Conspiracy of Silence"
1963		Receptionist	Episode: "Six Hands Across a Table"
1964	Martin Chuzzlewit	Mary Graham	9 episodes
1964	Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...	Carol Richmond	6 episodes
1966	Adam Adamant Lives! Adam Adamant Lives! Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian .- Character...	Susan	Episode: "The Terribly Happy Embalmers"
1967		Samantha Slade	Episode: "The Bird Who Knew Too Much"
1967		Mary	Episode: "A Double in Diamonds"
1967	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Judy	Episode: "The Wake"
1967	Theatre 625 Theatre 625 Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line...	Angiolina Zarri	Episode: "As a Man Grows Older"
1968	Theatre 625 Theatre 625 Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line...	Baroness	Episode: "The Pistol Shot"
1968	Salt and Pepper	Marianne Renaud
1968	Snow Treasure	Bente Nielsen
1968		Sandra MacGregor	Episode: "Coming Through the Rye"
1968	Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) Sherlock Holmes was a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968.-Production:...	Rachel Carey	Episode: "Black Peter"
1969	Dr. Finlay's Casebook Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV & radio) Dr. Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella entitled Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s...	Kathrin Soutar	Episode: "The Visitation"
1969	ITV Playhouse ITV Playhouse ITV Playhouse was a UK comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a...	Judy	Episode: "Murder: When Robin Was a Boy"
1969	Barrister at Law	Jane Paston	TV movie
1970	Strange Report Strange Report Strange Report is a British television drama starring Anthony Quayle as Adam Strange. It was produced by ITC Entertainment and first broadcast in 1969....	Beth	Episode: "Swindle - The Square Root of All Evil"
1970	Paul Temple Paul Temple Paul Temple is a fictional character created by British writer Francis Durbridge for the BBC radio serial Send for Paul Temple in 1938. Temple is an amateur private detective and author of crime fiction...	Nancy	Episode: "Swan Song for Colonel Harp"
1976		Kate Meredith	TV series
1977	Hunter's Gold	Molly Grogan	TV series
1977	Colour Scheme Colour Scheme Colour Scheme is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the twelfth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1943. The novel takes place in New Zealand during World War II; the plot involves suspected Nazi activity at a hot springs resort on the New Zealand coast and a...	Ursula Harme	TV movie
1981	Outbreak of Love	Miss Marcia Rockingham	TV movie
1982	Sara Dane		TV movie
1982	1915	Mrs. Reilly	TV miniseries
1983	Prisoner Prisoner (TV series) Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...	Zara Moonbeam	9 episodes
1983	Silent Reach		TV miniseries
1983-1984	Sons and Daughters Sons and Daughters (Australian TV series) Sons and Daughters was a Logie Award winning Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation between 1981 and 1987. The first episode aired in December 1981, during the Christmas/New Year non-ratings period, and the official broadcast date of the final...	Margaret Dunne	242 episodes
1984	Special Squad Special Squad Special Squad was an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Ten Network in 1984.The series focused on an elite division of the Victoria Police, which handled crimes either too sensitive or specialist for regular squads. The Special Squad was headed by Det. Insp. Don...	Helen Anderson	Episode: "Until Death"
1984	Utu Utu (film) Utu is a 1983 New Zealand movie directed by Geoff Murphy. It starred Anzac Wallace. Utu was reputed to have one of the largest budgets for a New Zealand film at the time...	Emily Williamson
1985	Anzacs	Lady Thea Barrington	5 episodes
1987	Gloss Gloss (TV series) Gloss was a television drama series in New Zealand that screened from 1987-1990. The series was about a fictional publishing empire run by the Redfern family....	Maxine Redfern	TV series
1988		Jane Armitage	TV movie
1989	Night of the Red Hunter	Jill Piper	TV series
1990-1991		Hilda Burton	24 episodes
1992		Thelma	TV series
1992	Marlin Bay Marlin Bay Marlin Bay was a New Zealand one-hour drama television series which ran for 39 episodes from 1991 - 1994. The series was set in a fictional resort and casino in the picturesque far north of New Zealand. The series dealt with issues regarding the high-flying lifestyle surrounding the hotel and...	Charlotte Kincaid	TV series
1995	Riding High	Mrs. Harrington	3 episodes
1995	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles...	Queen Camilla	Episode: "The Festival of Dionysus"
1997	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles...	Queen Euriana	Episode: "Long Live the King"
1998	City Life City Life (TV series) City Life was a New Zealand soap opera that screened on TVNZ from 1996-1998. It was portrayed the lives and loves of ten singles who lived in an upmarket apartment building in Auckland, New Zealand...	Beverley Gribble	Episode: "1.19"
2003	Shortland Street Shortland Street Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 4500 episodes and 19 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in...	Ngaire Thompson	TV series
2005	Shortland Street Shortland Street Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 4500 episodes and 19 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in...	Ngaire Thompson	TV series
2006	Maddigan's Quest Maddigan's Quest Maddigan's Quest was a fantasy-based television series set in a post-apocalyptic future. It was based on an original concept by Margaret Mahy and was developed for television by Gavin Strawhan and Rachel Lang...	Gabrielle	Episode: "Off the Map"
2009	I'm Not Harry Jenson.	Margaret
2011	Rest for the Wicked	Esther	Post-production

External links

• Biography http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/ilona-rodgers/biography