Pepe Trevor
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Penelope "Pepe" Trevor (born 1960) is an Australian actress, journalist and award-winning author who is perhaps best known for her role as young card sharp and trouble-maker Lexie Patterson in Prisoner
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s 1997 for her first novel, Listening for Small Sounds. Her second novel, Another Man's Office came out 2000. As a journalist, Trevor has contributed with articles for "The Melbourne Weekly Magazine". Trevor has two boys, Jaspar and Tashi. She is the daughter of one-time Prisoner producer, the late Marie Trevor.
Prisoner (TV series)
Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...
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Biography
Penelope Trevor was born 1960 in Sydney but moved to Melbourne at the age of six. She made a name as an actor in various Australian TV-Series during the 1980s. Later in life Trevor has taken up writing and she won the Dobbie Award in the Nita Kibble Literary AwardNita Kibble Literary Award
The Kibble Literary Awards comprise two awards which are presented annually: the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female writer, and the Dobbie Literary Award, which is for a first published work by a female writer. The Awards recognise the works...
s 1997 for her first novel, Listening for Small Sounds. Her second novel, Another Man's Office came out 2000. As a journalist, Trevor has contributed with articles for "The Melbourne Weekly Magazine". Trevor has two boys, Jaspar and Tashi. She is the daughter of one-time Prisoner producer, the late Marie Trevor.
Filmography
- The SullivansThe SullivansThe Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-classMelbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives...
(1976), TV-series - Skyways (tv-series) (1979/1981), TV-series
- A Country PracticeA Country PracticeA Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...
(1980), TV-Series - I Can Jump PuddlesI Can Jump PuddlesI Can Jump Puddles is a 1981 Australian television mini-series based on the 1955 autobiographical series of the same name by author Alan Marshall...
(1981), Film, "Pretty Girl" - Lonely Hearts (1982 film)Lonely Hearts (1982 film)Lonely Hearts is a 1982 Australian film directed by Paul Cox. A middle-aged man, Peter, goes to a dating agency in search of a companion. He is introduced to a shy bank clerk Patricia....
(1982), Film - Every Move She Makes (1984), Film, "Jackie"
- PrisonerPrisoner (TV series)Prisoner is an Australian television soap opera which was set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation and ran on Network Ten for 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986.The series was inspired by the 1970s...
(1985/1986), TV-Series, "Lexie Patterson" - Kelly (1985/1986), TV-series
- Blue HeelersBlue HeelersBlue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...
(1994/1996), TV-series, "Carla Houghton/Maria Baker" - Janus (tv-series) (1994/1995), TV-series, "Sandy"