Name
Joy Smithers
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1963-07-15 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Joy Smithers (born 15 July 1963) is an Australian actress, best known for her acting performances on television, and her role as a television news presenter, such as with MTV Australia in the late 1980s.
Her credits include: All The Way, Bangkok Hilton, The Flying Doctors, Home and Away, Lorca and the Outlaws, Wildside and All Saints. For a short time she was co-host of Good Morning Australia. In September 2008 Smithers made a return to acting, as Bridget Simmons in Home and Away.
Smithers appeared in the 2008 Australian surfing film Newcastle, as well as the 2015 action film Mad Max: Fury Road. At the age of 15, Smithers was offered the role of Max Rockatansky's wife, Jessie, in the original 1979 Mad Max, but was forced to decline after her parents would not let her travel to Adelaide for production.
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- 1994 The Custodian as Helen Quinlan
- 1997 River Street as Marcia
- 1985 Rebel as Mary, All Girl Band
- 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road as The Vuvalini
- 2004 Love in the First Degree as Leslie Barrett
- 2012 Status Update - A Facebook Fairytale as Genevieve
- 2010 Lest We Forget as Bell
- 1997 Heart of Fire as Julie Stoler
- 1995 Sex Is a Four Letter Word as Sylvia
- 1994 The Seventh Floor as Tracey
- 1997 Little White Lies as Reb
- 1985 Emoh Ruo as Terri Tunkley
- 1984 Lorca and the Outlaws as Lena
- 2008 Newcastle as Flora
- 1994 Heartbreak High ( 1 episode ) as Cassandra
- 1989 Bangkok Hilton ( 3 episodes ) as Mandy Engels
- 1995 Blue Murder ( 2 episodes ) as Debra Smith
- 1996 Water Rats ( 1 episode ) as Gabi Cunningham
- 1989 Bodysurfer ( 2 episodes ) as Lydia
- 2021 Amazing Grace ( 2 episodes ) as Maureen
- 1986 The Flying Doctors ( 1 episode ) as Kerry Samuelson
- 1989 E Street ( 2 episodes ) as Helen McCarthur
- 1994 Heartbreak High ( 1 episode ) as Karen Cooper
- 1986 The Flying Doctors ( 1 episode ) as Claire Banks
- 1986 The Flying Doctors ( 1 episode ) as Claire Dobson
- 1997 Big Sky ( 5 episodes ) as Grace
- 1997 Wildside ( 1 episode ) as Natasha Lodans
- 1998 All Saints ( 18 episodes ) as Rose Carleton
- 1998 All Saints ( 6 episodes ) as Rose Stevens
