Linda Cropper

Linda Cropper (born 1 January 1958) is an Australian actress, primarily known for her role as Geraldine Proudman in the TV series Offspring and as Dame Nellie Melba in the television series Melba. A shortened version of Melba was selected for screening as a film at a Royal Command Performance before Queen Elizabeth II in London.

Linda Cropper
Born	(1958-01-01) 1 January 1958 (age 65)
Occupation	Actress

Career

Television

Cropper’s television credits include roles in ABC miniseries Palace of Dreams, Edens Lost, Ring of Scorpio, Bordertown, Wildside, Water Rats, All Saints, White Collar Blue and The Pacific. She had a recurring role as Xhalax Sun during the third season of the Australian-American science fiction series Farscape.^{[citation needed]}

Film

Cropper's film credits include Teesh and Trude (2002), Little Fish (2005) and Fool's Gold (2008).^{[citation needed]}

Theatre

Cropper's many theatre credits include Simon Phillip's co-production of Poor Boy for the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company, and the role of Lady Macbeth in Bell Shakespeare's Macbeth. Other credits with Bell Shakespeare include Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It and Hamlet. Sydney Theatre Company credits include Arcadia, Month in the Country, Top Girls, and Great Expectations. She played the solo role Melbourne Theatre Company's production of The Architect by Aidan Fennessy in 2018.^[1]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Type
1980	Spring & Fall	C.E.S. Officer	TV series, episode 1: 'Close Comfort'
1984	Five Mile Creek	Tillie	TV series, 1 episode
1984	A Country Practice	Joy Walker	TV series, 2 episodes
1985	Palace of Dreams	Miriam Mendel	TV miniseries, 10 episodes
1986	Cyclone Tracy	Joycie	TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1987	Melba	Nellie Melba / Nellie Mitchell Armstrong 'Melba'	TV miniseries, 8 episodes
1988	Rafferty's Rules		TV series, 1 episode
1988	Mike Willesee's Australians	Lola Montez	TV film series, episode 6: 'Lola Montez'
1988	Spit MacPhee	Betty Arbuckle	TV miniseries, 4 episodes
1988	Edens Lost	Stevie	TV miniseries, 4 episodes
1989	Bodysurfer	Anthea	TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1990	Ring Of Scorpio	Marlene Walker	TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1990	The Private War of Lucinda Smith	Lucinda Smith	TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1992	Children of the Dragon	Monica	TV miniseries, 2 episodes
1992	In Sydney Today	Guest	TV series, 1 episode
1992	Cluedo	Matilda Mayberry	TV series, 1 episode
1993	Review	Guest Presenter	TV series, 1 episode
1993	G.P.	Shelley	TV series, 1 episode
1994; 1997	Good Morning Australia	Guest	TV series, 2 episodes
1994; 1997	What's Cooking	Guest	TV series, 2 episodes
1995	Bordertown	Bev Stafford	TV miniseries, 10 episodes
1997	Ten News	Herself	TV series, 1 episode
1997	Return To Jupiter	Computer	TV series, 13 episodes
1998	Wildside	Carol Wilson	TV series, 1 episode
1999-2000	Water Rats	Charlie Driscoll	TV series, 7 episodes
2000-01	Farscape	Xhalas Sun / Fento	TV series, 5 episodes
2002	All Saints	Anita Murphy	TV series, 1 episode
2002-03	White Collar Blue	Fran Hoffman	TV pilot & 7 other episodes
2004	Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History	Narrator (voice)	TV documentary
2006	McLeod's Daughters	Trudi Webb	TV series, 2 episodes
2008	Connected: The Power of Six Degrees	Narrator (voice)	Film documentary
2009	Fairweather Men	Narrator (voice)	TV documentary
2010	The Pharaoh Who Conquered the Sea	Narrator (voice)	TV documentary
2010	Satisfaction	Loretta Hawkes	TV series, 1 episode
2010-17	Offspring	Geraldine Proudman	TV series, 86 episodes
2010	The Pacific	Mary Frank Sledge	TV miniseries, 4 episodes
2011	The Secret History of Eurovision	Narrator (voice)	TV special
2011	Seduction In The City	Narrator	TV series, 1 episode
2012	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Veronique Sarcelle	TV series, 1 episode
2013	Redfern Now	Coroner	TV series, 1 episode
2014	Old School	Barb	TV series, 1 episode
2016	Howard On Menzies: Building Modern Australia	Narrator (voice)	TV series documentary, 2 episodes
2016	Rake	Ms Crown	TV series, 2 episodes
2017	The Leftovers	The Nun	TV series, 2 episodes
2018	Studio 10	Guest	TV series, 1 episode
2018	Pine Gap	Dani Griffin	TV miniseries, 2 episodes
2020	How to Stay Married	Claire	TV series, 1 episode
2024	High Country^[2]		TV series, 8 episodes (filming)

Film

Year	Title	Role	Type
1986	Going Sane	Irene Carter	Feature film
1994	The Seventh Floor	Vivian	Feature film
1996	Little White Lies	Tessler	Feature film
1997	The Hostages^[3]	Wendy	TV film
1997	Sidewinder - Titanic Days	Dianne	Film short
1997	Blackrock	Diane	Feature film
1998	With or Without You	Audrey	Feature film
1999	Passion	Mrs. Lowery	Feature film
1999	Envy	Kate	Feature film
2001	My Husband, My Killer	Megan Kalajzich	TV film
2002	Teesh and Trude	Trudy (Trude)	Feature film
2002	The Nugget	Roadhouse Waitress	Feature film
2005	Little Fish	Denise	Feature film
2006	Answered By Fire	Liz Savage	TV film
2007	The Tank		Film short
2008	Dream Life	Dawn	TV film
2008	Fool's Gold	Tess's Attorney	Feature film
2010	Suburbia	Mary	Film short
2013	Welcome to Iron Knob	Auntie Marg	Film short
2018	Upgrade	Pamela	Feature film
2019	Koko: A Red Dog Story	Loop-Group ADR	Feature film

Accolades

In 2010, Cropper was nominated for an AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance Satisfaction, and also in the 1989 AACTAs for Best Actress in a Miniseries, for Edens Lost.^{[citation needed]}

She won the Green Room Award (Performer, Theatre Companies) in 2019 for her 2018 performance in The Architect.^[4]

References

1. "The Architect". AusStage. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
2. "More cast added to High Country | TV Tonight".
3. The Hostages - Cast. (1997) Screen Australia
4. "2019 Nominations and Recipients – The Green Room Awards". The Green Room Awards. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

External links

• Linda Cropper at IMDb
• "Linda Cropper". AusStage.