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Kate Sheil is an Australian stage and television actress, whose roles include prison officer Janet Conway in the cult television series Prisoner.
In 1975, she made her film debut in Ayten Kuyululu The Golden Cage with Ilhan Kuyululu and Sait Memisoflu. She portrayed Sarah, a young teenager who befriends two newly arrived Turkish immigrants Murat (Ilhan Kuyululu) and Ayhen (Sait Memisoflu). Falling in love with one of them, she eventually leaves him after he demands that she convert to Islam. She is eventually located by the man who proposes to her, however, she refuses despite her being pregnant. Sheil was the only Australian cast in the film.Reade, Eric. History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896–1978. Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1979. (pp. 171, 174)
During 1976, Sheil had a supporting role in the television movie Me & Mr Thorne as well as the television series Alvin Purple and Shannon's Mob. Later that year, she also starred with Tom Oliver and Gerard Maguire in David Williamson's A Handful of Friends at the Russell Street Theatre in Melbourne,Williamson, David and Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt. Australian Playwrights: David Williamson. Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V., 1988. one of many stage productions she was in, throughout her career. She also played a supporting role in The Singer and the Dancer the following year.
In 1980, she appeared on the television series Timelapse, Bellamy and in the television movie Air Hawk before being cast as school teacher Mrs. Velland in the 1981 film Puberty Blues. From 1981 to 1982, she also had a guest stint in Prisoner as Janet Conway, a former Wentworth inmate turned prison officer; a storyline which reunited her with Gerard Maguire from Me & Mr Thorne, and saw the two characters in a romantic subplot.
After appearing on Sons and Daughters in 1984, she again took a break from acting until the late 1980s appearing in the television mini-series and Joe Wilson during 1988. After appearing in the 1990 film Weekend with Kate, she also made occasional television appearances in the television movie and, during the late 1990s, guest starred on A Country Practice, Children's Hospital and Water Rats.
Between 2001 and 2005, she played a recurring character, Victoria Carlton, in the soap opera All Saints.
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| Film short |
| Feature film |
| Feature film |
| Feature film |
| 1971–1976 | Homicide | Elly Sullivan / Chris Clark / Kay Marshall (as Katie Sheil) | TV series, 3 episodes |
| 1971 | What For Marianne? | Marianne Malden (as Katie Sheil) | TV movie |
| 1972 | Birds in the Bush | Friday | TV series, 13 episodes |
| 1973 | Matlock Police | Lorraine Hughes | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1973 | Boney | Gloria Lacey | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1973 | Ryan | Ellen Cornell | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1974 | Stopover | Kay Marshall (as Katie Sheil) | TV movie |
| 1976 | Alvin Purple | Sally | TV series, episode 12: "London Derriere" |
| 1976 | Me & Mr Thorne | Shelley Gordon | TV movie |
| 1978–1981 | Cop Shop | Tracey Powell / Karen Rush / Shawnee Lowe / Helen Radcliffe | TV series, 5 episodes |
| 1980 | Timelapse | Angela Parker | TV series |
| 1981 | Bellamy | Kath | TV series, 1 episode 11: "A Matter of Upbringing" |
| 1981 | Airhawk | Wendy | TV movie / TV pilot |
| 1981–1982 | Prisoner | Janet Conway | TV series, 43 episodes |
| 1984 | Sons and Daughters | Kathleen Elliott | TV series, 8 episodes |
| 1986 | Butterfly Island | TV series, 1 episode | |
| 1987 | Willing and Abel | TV series, 1 episode | |
| 1988 | Joe Wilson | Mrs. Black | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| 1988 | Gwen Purdam | TV miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| 1989 | Rafferty's Rules | Joy Finlayson | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1991 | Roma's Mother | TV miniseries, 2 episodes | |
| 1991 | A Country Practice | Dr. Wendy Gale | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1993 | A Country Practice | Sonia Newton | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1994 | Home and Away | Magistrate | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1994 | G.P. | Yvonne Freith | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1997 | Heartbreak High | Matron | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1998 | Children's Hospital | Maureen | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1999 | Water Rats | Coroner | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2001–2005 | All Saints | Victoria Carlton (as Katie Sheil) | TV series, 14 episodes |
| UNSW, Sydney |
| UNSW, Sydney |
| NIDA Theatre, Sydney |
| The Jane |
| UNSW, Sydney with NIDA |
| UNSW, Sydney with NIDA |
| UNSW, Sydney with NIDA |
| St Martins Theatre, Melbourne with MTC |
| Bondi Pavilion |
| The Jane with NIDA |
| Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne with MTC |
| Newcastle Civic Theatre, Theatre Royal Sydney, Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane with J. C. Williamson's & Edgley International |
| SGIO Theatre with QTC |
| SGIO Theatre with QTC |
| SGIO Theatre with QTC |
| SGIO Theatre with QTC |
| Opera Theatre, Adelaide, Theatre Royal Sydney, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Seymour Centre, Canberra Theatre |
| Edward Street Theatre, Brisbane with QTC |
| Princess Theatre, Launceston, Burnie Theatre, Queens Park Theatre, Perth, Hoyts Prince Theatre, Hobart, Regal Theatre, Perth, Playhouse, Canberra, Playhouse, Adelaide with Ensemble Theatre |
| Sydney Opera House with Gary Penny Productions |
| Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Majestic Cinemas, Sydney with John Reid Entertainment |
| Ensemble Theatre |
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