Tammy MacIntosh (born 16 February 1970) is an Australian actress known for portraying Dr. Charlotte Beaumont in the medical drama All Saints and Jool in the TV series Farscape. She is also known for her roles on television series The Flying Doctors, Police Rescue, Sea Patrol, the television film McLeod's Daughters which led to the acclaimed drama series of the same title, and played the role of Kaz Proctor in the prison drama series Wentworth, until her departure in June 2019.
Early and personal life
MacIntosh was born on 16 February 1970 in Perth, where she attended Morley Senior High School, Girrawheen Senior High School and Mount Lawley Senior High School. MacIntosh graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, a division of Edith Cowan University.
MacIntosh is married to Mark Yeats and they have a son.
Career
MacIntosh started out as a reporter for children's show C'mon Kids in South Australia in the late eighties.
MacIntosh has an extensive list of TV credits including The Flying Doctors, Grass Roots, Stingers, State Coroner, Wildside, She was cast as Jool, a young Interion woman. She made her first appearance in the third-season episode "Self-Inflicted Wounds Part I: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a". MacIntosh took the role of Charlotte as she saw the character as a new challenge. She was initially contracted for six weeks. and Doctor Amelia Ward in "Episode 9" of Crownies.
MacIntosh was considered for the role of Bea Smith in prison drama Wentworth. She later joined the cast in the third season as vigilante Kaz Proctor, alongside actresses Pia Miranda and Libby Tanner. MacIntosh left Wentworth in season 7 as the show took a toll on her. Macintosh revealed the extent of filming would leave her "crying while going on walks" and she would facetime her son every night during production. MacIntosh spoke with the production team at the end of season six to inform them that the upcoming seventh season would be her last as Kaz. Her character was killed off in the fourth episode.
Macintosh would join several of her co-stars from Wentworth during 2022 and appeared at both a Screen Star Event in London and Birmingham and would also appear at the Wentworth Con fan convention in Melbourne. Macintosh appears regularly at these fan conventions.
MacIntosh made a cameo appearance in The Drover's Wife and appeared in The Longest Weekend. In 2024, Macintosh reunited with Guy Pearce in the film Inside.
In May 2025, MacIntosh made a return to television after a six-year absence as Debra Fowler in soap opera Home and Away.
Filmography
Film
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1993
|'
|Nicola Bass
|Television film
|-
|1994
|Police Rescue
|Const. Kathy Orland
|Feature film
|-
| rowspan="3" |1996
|River Street
|Sharon Pierce
|Feature film
|-
|Whipping Boy
|Seal
|Television film
|-
|McLeod's Daughters
|Claire McLeod
|Television film
|-
|2000
|Better Than Sex
|Girl F
|Feature film
|-
|2005
|Repetition
|Anell
|Feature film
|-
| rowspan="2" |2011
|'
|Grace Flack
|Feature film
|-
|Sleeping Beauty
|Work Colleague
|Feature film
|-
|2021 (22)
|The Drovers Wife
|Marti Murray
|Feature film (cameo)
|-
|2022
|The Longest Weekend
|Sadie Palmer
|Feature film
|-
|2024 (25)
|Inside
|Colleen
|Feature film
|}
Television
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
|1989–1990
|'
|Annie Rogers
|Seasons 6–7 (recurring role, 37 episodes)
|-
|1991
|Chances
|Mandy Foster
|Season 1 (6 episodes)
|-
|1992–1993
|Bingles
|Stacy
|Season 1 (main role, 23 episodes)
|-
|1992–1995
|Police Rescue
|Const. Kathy Orland
|Seasons 2–4 (main role, 39 episodes)
|-
|1995
|G.P.
|Joanna Lalor
|Season 7, Episode 33: "One for the Road"
|-
|1997–1998
|Wildside
|Det. Kim Devlin
|Miniseries & Season 1 (recurring role, 12 episodes)
|-
|1998
|Good Guys, Bad Guys
|Holly Swift
|Season 2, Episode 13: "You Light Up My Wife"
|-
|1999
|Stingers
|Karen Jones
|Season 2, Episode 19: "Full Term"
|-
| rowspan="2" |2000
|Grass Roots
|Marilyn Hennessy
|Season 1 (recurring role, 4 episodes)
|-
|Something in the Air
|Christine Rutherford
|Season 1 (recurring role, 8 episodes)
|-
|2001–2002
|Farscape
|Joolushko 'Jool' Tunai Fenta Hovalis
|Seasons 3–4 (recurring role, 18 episodes)
|-
|2002
|Jeopardy
|Melissa
|Season 1 (recurring role, 13 episodes)
|-
|2002–2009
|All Saints
|Dr. Charlotte Beaumont
|Seasons 5–12 (main role, 289 episodes)
|-
|2004
|Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
|Joolushko 'Jool' Tunai Fenta Hovalis
|Miniseries (2 episodes)
|-
|2010–2011
|Sea Patrol
|CMDR Maxine "Knocker" White
|Seasons 4–5 (recurring role, 29 episodes)
|-
| rowspan="2" |2011
|East West 101
|Sally Wilson
|Season 3, Episode 2: "Heart of Darkness"
|-
|Crownies
|Dr. Amelia Ward
|Season 1, Episode 9
|-
|2012–2015
|Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
|Dr. Elizabeth "Mac" Macmillan
|Seasons 1–3 (recurring role, 17 episodes)
|-
|2015–2019
|Wentworth
|Karen "Kaz" Proctor
|Season 3 (recurring role, 5 episodes),<br />Seasons 4–7 (main role, 41 episodes)
|-
|2019
|Wentworth: Behind the Bars
|Self
|TV Special
|-
| 2025–present
| Home and Away
| Debra Fowler
| Season 38 (recurring)
|-
|}
Theatre
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1998
| Blinded by the Sun
|
| Playhouse Theatre
|-
|
| Private Lives
|
| Sydney Theatre Company
|-
|
| Shark Fin Soup
|
| Melbourne Theatre Company
|}