Biography
Janet is a well-known figure on Australian television, with a career that extends beyond the small screen. She has won two Green Room Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Her extensive theatre and film work includes Rising Fish Prayer, Hotel Sorrento, Navigating, Jerusalem, Good Works, Underwear, Perfume and Crash Helmet, A Happy and Holy Occasion, Sex Diary of an Infidel, Love Letters, Framework, Lysistrata, Ticka Tocka Linga, and Once a Catholic. As a member of the esteemed Melbourne Theatre Company Ensemble, she has appeared in productions such as Othello, Tom & Viv, The Threepenny Opera, Pax Americana, The Curse of the Werewolf, and Never In My Lifetime, among others. Janet is perhaps best known for her role as the detached inmate Reb Keane in the popular Prisoner series. Her numerous television credits also include Words Fail Me, Home, Carson's Law, This Man This Woman, Embassy, A Country Practice, Blue Heelers, Janus, State Coroner, and the international mini-series Moby Dick.
