Linda Hartley-Clark (born 28 December 1967) is an Australian actress, known for her role as Kerry Bishop on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 1989 to 1990. She had early lead roles in Cornflakes for Tea, The Bush Gang, and Home, before appearing in The Flying Doctors miniseries as Diana Daniels, and Prisoner as Roach Waters in 1986.
Career
Hartley attended Macleod High School in Melbourne. Hartley began singing and dancing from a young age, before her agent persuaded her to give acting a chance. She was a back-up dancer and singer on the short-lived Tonight with Bert Newton show. That same year, Hartley appeared in While You're Down There, a sketch and stand-up comedy show. Hartley returned to Neighbours in 1989 as series regular Kerry Bishop. After contract negotiations with the production company broke down, Hartley left the serial in 1990. She played Angie in the small-budget Melbourne film Closer and Closer Apart, which was made in 1989 and released in 1992.
After leaving Neighbours, Hartley went to the UK and appeared on gameshow Go Getters, children's series WYSIWYG, crime drama Anna Lee and the film Still Life. She also appeared in both UK and Australian theatre productions. In 2005, Hartley-Clark had a guest stint in Neighbours playing Kerry's lookalike Gabrielle Walker. She also provided voiceovers for Kerry's diary entries which are read by her daughter Sky Mangel (Stephanie McIntosh) in 2004 and 2006.
Personal life
Hartley-Clark lives in Melbourne. She married musician John Clark, a former drummer with Craig McLachlan's band, Check 1–2, in 1989.
Filmography
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!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
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| 1981
| The Bush Gang
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| Season 1 — 5 episodes
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| 1981
|Cornflakes for Tea
| Trish
| Season 1 — 6 episodes (main role)
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| 1983
| Home
| Pauline
| Season 1 — 6 episodes
|-
| 1984
|The Fire in the Stone
| Sophie Andropoulos
| TV Movie
|-
| 1984
| Carson's Law
| Peggy Roche
| Season 1 — 4 episodes
|-
| 1985
| The Flying Doctors
| Diana Daniels
| Miniseries — 3 episodes
|-
| 1985
| Neighbours
| Gloria Slater
| Season 1 — 3 episodes (guest role)
|-
| 1986
| Prisoner
| Rachel "Roach" Waters
| Season 8 — 27 episodes (recurring role)
|-
| 1986
| While You're Down There
| Various
| Season 1 — 6 episodes
|-
| 1989
| The Flying Doctors
| Linda Gallagher
| Episode: "The Storyteller"
|-
| 1989–1990
| Neighbours
| Kerry Bishop
| Seasons 5–6 – 193 episodes (main role)
|-
| 1991
| Go Getters
| Herself
|
|-
| 1992
| Closer and Closer Apart
| Angie
| Video/film
|-
| 1992
| WYSIWYG
| Chaz/Linda/Saloon Keeper/Barbie
| Season 1 — 5 episodes
|-
| 1993
| Anna Lee: Headcase
| Pippa
| TV film
|-
| 1998
| Breakers
| Unknown role
| Unknown episode(s)
|-
| 1998
| All Saints
| Linda Taylor
| Episodes: "Possession", "Out of Control"
|-
| 1999
| Grange Hill
| Airport Check In
| Season 22, Episode 7
|-
| 2005
| Neighbours
| Gabrielle Walker
| Season 21 — 8 episodes (recurring role)
|-
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