Lyndel Rowe is an Australian actress who is best known for her work with the Melbourne Theatre Company, the Sydney Theatre Company and the State Theatre Company of South Australia. Ms. Rowe is now living in London. She is probably best known for her role as the unpleasant Karen Fox in Australian soap opera 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...

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Theatre

Ms. Rowe joined the Union Repertory Company (now the Melbourne Theatre Company) - in productions including Patrick White's Season at Sarsparilla, Waltz of the Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Ghost Train; toured Australia with J.C. Williamson's Goodnight Mrs. Puffin, with Irene Handl.

Travelling to England, studied at The Royal Court Theatre Studio, with George Devine and Keith Johnstone. Then a production with the International Theatre Company of The Seventh Seal (Painting on Wood). From there into repertory and into the company of a West End lunch-time theatre, TheatreScope, doing weekly seasons of one act Tennessee Williams, Ionesco, Anouilh etc.

Invited back to the Melbourne Theatre Company at Russell Street; roles including: Nancy - The Knack, Raymonde - Flea in her Ear, Irina - Three Sisters, Mary Warren - The Crucible, Margery Pinchwife - The Country Wife, Sheila - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Sandy - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Clarice - Servant of Two Masters, Marina - Pericles, Pip - Moby Dick, Grace - London Assurance, Charlotte - The Magistrate, Celemene - The Misanthrope, Gwendolyn - The Importance of Being Earnest.

Productions with the Sydney Theatre Company including the roles of: Kate - The Taming of the Shrew, Rose Trelawney - Trelawney of the Wells, Sonya - Uncle Vanya, Marianne - Tartuffe, Charlotte - The Real Thing.

With the South Australian Theatre Company: Phoebe - As You Like It, Daphne - Old King Cole, Jill - David Williamson's Handful of Friends.
At the Playbox, Sydney, played Lucy in the musical - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. With Nimrod Street (now Belvoir St. ), Gwendolyn - Stoppard's Travesties, and an Australian tour of Doctor in Love.

In England with the Liverpool Playhouse:
Anna - Old Times, Dianne - Absent Friends, Raymonde - Flea in Her Ear.

Films

• Princess Kate
  Touch the Sun (Australian TV series)
  Touch the Sun was a television series commissioned by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 1988 as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations. It may have been intended that seven feature-length episodes were produced, one for each State, plus the Northern Territory, but only six...
  
   1988 telemovie
• Short Changed
• Playing Beattie Bow
  Playing Beatie Bow (film)
  Playing Beatie Bow is a 1986 Australian drama film directed by Donald Crombie. The screenplay by Peter Gawler and Irwin Lane is based on the novel by Ruth Park.-Plot summary:...
  
  
• I Can't Get Started.

Television

In England, played Fenichka, in BBC's classical series of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Guest Episodes of Z-Cars, The Gentle Touch, Kate with Phylis Calvert, BBC play of the month, Death of a Salesman, with Rod Steiger.
In Australia, the Mini-series, Melba. Guest episodes in ABC series, Crawfords, and she played Karen Fox in Grundy's Sons and Daughters. Was a member of Eric Tayler's, A.B.C. Television Repertory Company.
Ms. Rowe has been awarded a Television Society Award, and a Logie Award

Logie Award

The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...

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In 2004 appeared with Lewis Fiander in Afterplay under the direction of Malcolm Robertson, a UTRC veteran, at FortyFive Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne

Present Interests

Lyndel's other base has been London, where she has been absorbed in her writing - novels, short stories, a screenplay - which has become her new passion. She has essays published in Meanjin

Meanjin

Meanjin is an Australian literary journal. The name - pronounced Mee-AN-jin - is derived from an Aboriginal word for the land where the city Brisbane is located.It was founded in December 1940, in Brisbane, by Clem Christesen...

, and twice chosen for publication in The Best Australian Essays