Vera Plevnik
Vera Plevnik (c. 1955/1956 – 27 January 1982) was an Australian actress, born to Yugoslav-Russian parents best known for winning a Logie for her performance as a resistance fighter Nadia Grosse in the TV movie The John Sullivan Story, a spin-off of the TV series The Sullivans[1][2]
She initially trained at teachers college, but chose acting, training at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Plevnik died in a car crash on the Princes Highway near Batemans Bay when her late-model sedan was involved in a head-on collision. The 60-year-old driver of the other vehicle also was killed .[3]
She had previously been a partner of musician James Reyne and her life inspired several of his songs.[4]
Select credits
[edit]- The Golden Oldies (1977) – play
- The John Sullivan Story (1979) – TV movie
- The Sullivans (1980) – TV series
- Cop Shop (1980) – TV series
- Young Ramsay (1980) – TV series – episode "The Littlest Goldmine"
- The Same Stream (1981) – short
- The Fame is Shared (1981) – live performance[5]
- Conundra (1982) – play
- Monkey Grip (1982) – Feature film
- Going Down (1982) – Feature film[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Logie winners". The Canberra Times. 15 March 1980. p. 3. Retrieved 28 December 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "VERA PLEVNIK she does it her way". Australian Women's Weekly. 4 June 1980. p. 57 Supplement: FREE Your TV Magazine. Retrieved 28 December 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Actress dies in car smash". The Canberra Times. 29 January 1982. p. 3. Retrieved 28 December 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Going Down". australianscreen. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ "What's on Where". Filmnews. Sydney. 1 August 1981. p. 14. Retrieved 28 December 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Sawyer, Mark (15 April 2011). "The morning after the night before". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
External links
[edit]- Vera Plevnik at IMDb
- Vera Plevnik at AusStage