Joanna "Jo" Parrish was a fictional character on the Australian police series Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...

. She arrived in 1999 and left in 2004 when she was killed in an explosion.
She was portrayed by Jane Allsop

Jane Allsop

Jane Claire Allsop is an Australian actress, best known for her role as Jo Parrish on Blue Heelers.-Personal life:...

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Jo entered the series in the Season 6 episode "Hello, Goodbye". She was initially portrayed as a very stubborn and sometimes even pig-headed young woman. She does, however, mature over the course of the series. She was good mates with Constable Jack Lawson

Jack Lawson

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 and then his replacement, Constable Evan Jones

Evan Jones

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. She also got on well with Senior Constable Maggie Doyle in the brief time between when Jo came to Mount Thomas and Maggie was shot dead. She initially disliked the new sergeant who arrived after Maggie's death, Tess Gallagher

Teresa 'Tess' Gallagher

Tess Gallagher was a Blue Heelers character that lasted from 2000 to 2003. She arrived after Maggie Doyle's death.She arrived as the new Sergeant at Mount Thomas, taking Ben Stewart's assumed position. This and her emotionally withdrawn and critical character initially fuelled animosity between...

, however, the two later became friends. She is the 7th Longest character behind Tom,Chris,PJ,Maggie,Ben,and Nick

Jo was promoted to Senior Constable in Season 11 of the series.

P.J. Hasham

Jo's most obvious romance storyline in the series was with P.J Hasham, who she became engaged to but this ended when she broke up with him because she thought he would never get over the death of his former fiance Maggie Doyle (Lisa McCune). Jo was later killed in the station's bombing.

Other appearances

Jane Allsop also appeared on Blue Heelers in 1997 episode Fool For Love after losing her audition as Dash McKinley. However in this episode she was portrayed as Angie Anderson not as Jo Parrish and had no relation to when she appeared as Jo, She later auditioned for the role of Jo Parrish and obviously was selected.