Wendy HughesFilmography

The Caterpillar Wish

Actors: Susie Porter

Synopsis: A teenage girl from the coastal town of Robe in South Australia realizes that hoping for change just isn't enough as she sets out in search of the father she never knew. Seventeen year old Emily (Victoria Thane) lives with her single mother Susan (Susie Porter) in a sleepy seaside town. Emily Read More

The Man Who Sued God

Actors: Billy Connolly, Judy Davis, Colin Friels, Bille Brown, Wendy Hughes

Synopsis: Directed by Mark Joffe, Australia's The Man Who Sued God centers around Steve (Billy Connelly), an ex-lawyer who is unable to collect insurance money for his destroyed boat. Deeming the accident an "act of God," Steve decides to sue the man at the root of his problem -- namely, God. Anna (Judy Davis Read More

Paradise Road

Actors: Glenn Close, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand, Julianna Margulies

Synopsis: Based on the testimony of survivors, this historical drama recounts the WWII heroism of female prisoners of war. (Glenn Close) stars as Adrienne Partiger, a society doyenne who flees Singapore with other expatriate women, mostly the wives of servicemen, when Japanese forces invade in 1942. When Read More

Lust and Revenge

Synopsis: This caustic Australian comedy is meant to burn those commercial interests who sponsor artists for tax breaks. It also a sexually unresponsive wife's revenge against her cheating husband. Heiress Georgina Oliphant, the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate George Oliphant is on a mission to find a Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 02

Synopsis: Enjoying critical success but only so-so ratings during its nine-episode inaugural season in 1993, Homicide: Life on the Street tentatively returned to the airwaves for four additional episodes in January of 1994. The opener features a poignant guest-star turn by Robin Williams as a tourist whose Read More

Princess Caraboo

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Loosely based on an actual incident, this family-friendly British comedy is also a sly satire of class consciousness. Phoebe Cates stars as a woman who appears in the English countryside of 1817 wearing exotic garb and speaking gibberish. Delivered to a nearby manor, the mystery woman is sheltered Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Lessons

Synopsis: Wendy Hughes guest stars as Lt. Cmdr. Nella Darren, the new head of the Enterprise's Stellar Sciences Mission. Falling in love with Nella, Captain Picard is reluctant to put her in harm's way when he is told to assign her to a deadly mission. Tension mounts in the final moments, when it Read More

Snowy River: The McGregor Saga - The Race

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, originally produced as the premier episode of the television series Snowy River, master horseman Matt McGregor (Andrew Clarke) is widely acknowledged to be the fastest rider in the Snowy Mountains, but when his nephew Luke (Josh Lucas) returns after a stay in America Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: A Shot in the Dark

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Worn out by the dead-end investigation of the Watson killing, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) turns on the obstreperous Capt. Barnfather (Clayton LeBouef) and calls him a "butthead." As his ex-partner Thormann (Edie Falco) recovers from her wounds, Crosetti (Jon Polito) closes in on the man whom he thinks Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: A Dog and Pony Show

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Still frustrated by the unsolved Watson murder, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and Pembleton (Andre Braugher) are in no mood to tackle the murder of a police dog -- but they must, since the Baltimore municipal code dictates that any police killing in the line of duty must be given first priority. Meanwhile Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Season 01

Synopsis: Beginning its first (short) season just after ABC's telecast of the 1993 Super Bowl, Homicide: Life on the Street gets under way as rookie detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) joins the Baltimore, MD, police department's homicide division. Almost immediately, Bayliss is teamed with veteran cop Frank Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Ghost of a Chance

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and Pembleton (Andre Braugher) continue their investigation of the murder of 11-year-old Adena Watson. Bolander (Ned Beatty) and Munch (Richard Belzer) are confronted with a murder victim who is not entirely dead. And despite the skepticism of her partner Felton (Daniel Baldwin Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Gone for Goode

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Originally telecast in the prime time slot following the 1993 Super Bowl, episode one of Homicide: Life on the Street wastes no time getting started, introducing the viewer to a myriad of characters and no fewer than three murder cases. Newly arrived at the Baltimore PD homicide division from the Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Son of a Gun

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Crossetti (Jon Polito) insists upon handling the case of his ex-partner Thormann (Edie Falco), who was shot in the head on assignment. Bayliss (Kyle Secor) is becoming increasingly frustrated by the dead ends in the Watson killing, the most recent being a raid on the dead girl's house. Felton (Daniel Baldwin Read More

Donor

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Jack Scalia, Pernell Roberts, Wendy Hughes, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Donor is a variation on a familiar theme, played to the hilt by a topnotch cast. Doctor Melissa Gilbert-Brinkman is shocked when her close friend is strangled by an elderly patient. Before she has a chance to investigate, the killer himself dies in a mysterious accident. Probing further, Melissa Read More

Warm Nights on a Slow-Moving Train

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Colin Friels, Norman Kaye, John Clayton, Rod Zuanic

Synopsis: Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train, written and directed by Bob Ellis, belongs to a genre of highbrow 1980s films which pushed the conventions of art house cinema. An unnamed fine arts teacher struggles to support her brother's drug addiction. To raise money, she moonlights as a prostitute on a Read More

Boundaries of the Heart

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Wendy Hughes, John Hargreaves, Norman Kaye, Julie Nihill, Max Cullen

Synopsis: A small desert town in western Australia is the scene of several love affairs in this romantic drama. Forty-year-old Stella (Wendy Hughes) works at her father's hotel and bar. She receives annual New Year's marriage proposals from rodeo rider Andy Ford (John Hargreaves), who talks himself into Read More

Luigi's Ladies

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Sandy Gore, David Rappaport, John Walton

Synopsis: "Luigi" (David Rappaport) is a Cockney immigrant to Australia, whose job as maitre d' in a high-toned Italian restaurant requires that he take on an ethnic monniker and phony accent. Over time, he has become the confidante of a trio of his customer, yuppie women, all of them friends with each Read More

The Heist

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Tom Skerritt, Wendy Hughes, Robert Prosky, Noble Willingham

Synopsis: In this made-for-HBO thriller, Pierce Brosnan stars as an ex-convict who seeks revenge on the racetrack partner (Tom Skerritt) who framed him. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Happy New Year

Actors: Peter Falk, Charles Durning, Wendy Hughes, Tom Courtenay, Joan Copeland

Synopsis: Happy New Year is an Americanized remake of the 1974 French film of the same name. Peter Falk and Charles Durning play Nick and Charlie, a pair of seedy but suave jewel thieves. Preparing to rob the exclusive Florida jewelry store managed by Tom Courtenay, Nick and Charlie meticulously pre-plan Read More

Amerika

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Wendy Hughes, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Robert Urich, Cindy Pickett

Synopsis: As the brainchild of writer-director-producer Donald Wrye, the 14 1/2 hour ABC movie event Amerika marked one of the most expensive and controversial miniseries in the history of prime time television when it bowed over the course of seven nights in February of 1987. Regarded as something of a Read More

Promises to Keep

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Claire Bloom, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: In this family drama, the life of a woman and her son are severely disrupted when her estranged husband, who abandoned them thirty years before, returns. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Echoes of Paradise

Actors: Wendy Hughes, John Lone, Steve Jacobs, Peta Toppano, Rod Mullinar

Synopsis: Maria McEvoy (Wendy Hughes) deals with the death of her beloved father and discovers her attorney husband George (Steven Jacobs) is a philandering louse in this romantic drama. At the suggestion of a friend, Maria takes a vacation in Thailand, where she falls for Raka (John Lone), an exiled dancer Read More

Remember Me

Synopsis: With her first husband locked in a mental hospital, a woman re-marries and begins to find a normal life. Too bad for her--the nutcake husband is released and comes back for a visit. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

I Can't Get Started

An Indecent Obsession

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Gary Sweet, Richard Moir, Jonathan Hyde, Bruno Lawrence, Mark Little

Synopsis: Wendy Hughes plays a gorgeous nurse tending to emotionally disturbed Australian soldiers during WWII. Private Gary Sweet seems to be the most well-adjusted of the patients, which Hughes finds attractive. The fly in the ointment is jealous, maladjusted-patient Richard Moir. His campaign of cruelty Read More

Return to Eden

Actors: Rebecca Gilling

Synopsis: Filmed in Australia, the TV miniseries Return to Eden stars Rebecca Gilling as a wealthy young woman whose husband tries to murder her. Left for dead, she survives and assumes a new identity in order to exact vengeance on her treacherous hubby. This three-part, six-hour miniseries debuted in Read More

My First Wife

Actors: John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes, Lucy Angwin, David Cameron

Synopsis: Classical music DJ John Hargreaves neglects his wife Wendy Hughes, who responds by entering into an illicit romance. Upon finding out, Hargreaves leaves Hughes, but doesn't want to tell his parents; they'd never liked Hughes, and he isn't in the mood for a chorus of "I told you so"s. What is Read More

Careful, He Might Hear You

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill, John Hargreaves, Geraldine Turner

Synopsis: Set in Australia in the 1930s, this drama stars Nicholas Gledhill as P.S., a six-year-old boy who lives with his Aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and Uncle George (Peter Whitford). P.S.'s mother died in childbirth, so her sister Lila took him in, and while George and Lila don't have a lot of money, they've Read More

Lonely Hearts

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Norman Kaye, Jon Finlayson, Julia Blake, Jonathan Hardy

Synopsis: Effusive piano tuner Norman Kaye is on the less sunny side of forty and still unattached. Shy and self-effacing office worker Wendy Hughes is likewise getting on in years sans a lifetime companion. From the outset, we know that Kaye and Hughes will somehow come together. This, however, is the only Read More

Duet for Four

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Michael Pate, Diane Cilento, Gary Day

Synopsis: When a Melbourne toy manufacturer discovers his wife is having an affair, he can't really get too distressed. After all, he's having an affair as well. However, when his mistress decides she wants to get married, his life becomes complicated and his business affairs have to be put on hold. ~ Tana Read More

Partners

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, John Hurt, Kenneth McMillan, Robyn Douglass, Jay Robinson

Synopsis: TV director James Burrows made his feature debut with this unusual film that's a situation comedy-style twist on both The Odd Couple (1968) and Cruising (1980). The murder of a male model in a gay, beachfront enclave of L.A. warrants an undercover investigation, so police officer Benson (Ryan O'Neal Read More

Flash Fire

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Ian Gilmour, James Mason, Wendy Hughes, Ray Barrett

Synopsis: Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of Australia that he ignores certain obvious signals that his business partner is not entirely on the up-and-up. After a brush fire destroys the resort, an insurance investigator Read More

Hoodwink

Actors: John Hargreaves, Judy Davis, Dennis Miller, Les Foxcroft, Wendy Strehlow

Synopsis: Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a Read More

Touch and Go

Actors: Wendy Hughes, Chantal Contouri, Carmen Duncan, Jeanie Drynan, Liddy Clark

Synopsis: Three attractive women turn into Robin Hoods in order to save a kindergarten in this routine comedy-caper. Eva (Wendy Hughes), Fiona (Chantal Contouri), and Millicent (Carmen Duncan) are ready to help out a charitable cause when they see one, but their hearts are bigger than their wallets. The Read More

My Brilliant Career

Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Patricia Kennedy

Synopsis: Both actress Judy Davis and director Gillian Armstrong made a big splash on the international scene with this charming Australian film that examines late 19th century Australian society from the perspective of a headstrong woman who refuses to follow convention. The film charts the developing Read More

Kostas

Actors: Takis Emmanuel, Wendy Hughes

Synopsis: Australia has a huge Greek immigrant population, so it is only natural that a refugee from Greece's occasional revolutions has become a political refugee there. Now a taxi-driver, Kostas (Takis Emmanuel) was formerly a journalist, an educated, passionate man who didn't always live in a seedy Read More

Newsfront

Actors: Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood, John Ewart, Angela Punch, Don Crosby, Bryan Brown, John Clayton, Lorna Lesley, John Dease

Synopsis: Set between the years 1949 and 1956, Newsfront tracks the destinies of two brothers, their adventures and misadventures placed in the context of sweeping social and political changes in their native Australia. Both of the protagonists are newsreel photographers. Frank (Gerard Maguire) is Read More

Puzzle

Actors: Wendy Hughes, James Franciscus

Synopsis: Made for Australian television, The Puzzle stars James Franciscus as an ex-tennis pro, turned adventurer with an archeological bent (we'd say "shades of Indiana Jones " except that this film was completed three years before Raiders of the Lost Ark). Right now, Franciscus in on the trail of an urn Read More

High Rolling in a Hot Corvette

Actors: Joseph Bottoms, Greg Taylor, Judy Davis, John Clayton, Wendy Hughes

Synopsis: In this Australian action comedy, Texas and Alby (Joseph Bottoms and Grigor Taylor) mostly work as roustabouts at carnivals, but they are bored with the kind of work they do and take to the road together, looking for some fun and adventure. They are picked up in a beautiful green Corvette owned by Read More

The Alternative

Synopsis: A magazine editor finds herself in a tight fix when she gets pregnant. She decides to have the baby, but then finds herself pursued by both her lover and the father of the child. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sidecar Racers

Actors: Ben Murphy, Wendy Hughes, John Clayton, Peter Graves, John Meillon

Synopsis: In this lively sports drama, Jeff Rayburn has no direction in his life since he competed in the Olympic games as a swimmer. The American had been simply bumming around Australia until he teamed up with biker Dave Ferguson and began sidecar racing. When not involved in racing, the two tussle for Read More

Is There Anybody There?

Synopsis: Two women attempt to survive the stalking of a killer in an apartment building. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Company Men

Jock Petersen

Actors: Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Joey Hohenfels, Amanda Hunt, George Mallaby

Synopsis: This comedy follows the exploits of Tony Petersen (Jack Thompson), a mature married man with two children who decides to go back to school for an undergraduate degree. Tony has one problem, which he probably feels is only a minor complication: he is like catnip for women. Luckily for him, he likes Read More

The Spiral Bureau

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller, a business magnate finds himself crippled by a strange force. He then hires a crack team of paranormal experts to help him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More