Babs McMillan is an Australian stage, film, television actress and director, playwright and teacher, based in Melbourne She is best known for her roles in two popular television series during the 1980s.

Babs McMillan
Born
Australia
Occupations
  • Actress
  • director
  • playwright
  • teacher
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Years active1970-present

Career

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McMillan played the acerbic Sister Erin Cosgrove during the final year of television series The Young Doctors and dimwitted country bumpkin Cass Parker in Prisoner. In the late 1990s, she appeared in the Australian espionage drama Secrets.

McMillan has appeared in the movies Oscar and Lucinda (1997), Babe: Pig in the City (1998), My Brilliant Career (1979) and Hating Alison Ashley (2005).

On stage McMillan has acted extensively with the Melbourne Theatre Company. Apart from acting, McMillan has helped many students as Director of Drama at the National Theatre Drama School in Melbourne. Was resident director for the "BUDDY – The Buddy Holly story" 1991-1992.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1979 My Brilliant Career Miss Benson
1982 A Shifting Dreaming Annie Lock Television film documentary
1991 Deadly Coroner
1997 Oscar and Lucinda Mrs. Judd
1998 Babe: Pig in the City Matriarch
2005 Hating Alison Ashley Mrs. Orlando
2009 Chocolate Fetish Prue Kaiser Short film
2013 Cliffy Merle Television film
2024 The Honeysuckle Sisters Coach Film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1974 Silent Number The Prostitute Episode: "Something from the Past"
1975 The Dick Emery Show Episode: "Episode #14.10"
1977 Doctor on the Go Nerida Episode: "Sunday Bleeping Sunday"
1979 Skyways Moira Trimmer Episode: "Chalk and Cheese"
1981 Prisoner Miss Vaughan Season 3 (guest, 1 episode)
1983–84 Cass Parker Season 5–6 (main, 60 episodes)
1983 The Young Doctors Erin Cosgrove 8 episodes
1984 Special Squad Episode: "Return of the Cat"
1989 Rafferty's Rules Nurse McTaggart Episode: "The Plague"
1993 Secrets Virginia Drury 13 episodes
1995 Good Morning Australia Guest - Herself TV series, 1 episode
2002 Short Cuts Miri Lieberman Episode: "As a Row of Tents"
2002 Legacy of the Silver Shadow Nursing Home Manager Episode: "Tomorrow the World"
2009 City Homicide Fran Benson Episode: "The Forgotten"
2023 Celebrity House Cleaner Sheila 2 episodes
2023 Talking Prisoner Herself Podcast (episode 58, 13 September 2023)

References

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  1. ^ "Babs McMillan". AusStage.
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