Kaarin Fairfax
Also Known As: Kaarin Louise Fairfax
Biography: Kaarin Louise Fairfax (born 30 September 1959) is an Australian actress, director and singer who played the role of Dolour Darcy in two TV miniseries, The Harp in the South (1986) and its sequel Poor Man's Orange (1987), based on books of the same names by Ruth Park. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kaarin Fairfax licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birthday: September 30, 1959
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Gender: Female
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Hakuumacaato
Overview: A story about the divided relationship between a traditionalist Somali father and a gay son who live together in Melbourne, Australia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-12
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Bloom
Overview: On Junie's eighteenth birthday, the secret of her late period and potential pregnancy puts her sisterhood and close family ties at risk of breaking apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-12
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Starstruck
Overview: A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-08
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StalkHer
Overview: An obsessive prowler Jack (Jarratt) breaks into the home of his victim Emily (Fairfax). Finding himself wounded then tied to a chair, Jack soon realises he underestimated his intended prey as the two engage in a night long tête-à-tête.
Genres: Comedy Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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Midnight Dancer
Overview: 16 year old Australian girl Belinda (Deanne Jeffs) wants to become a ballerina. To makes ends meet, she takes a job as an exotic dancer in a Sydney cabaret. Eventually, she is able to reach her goal, but not before experiencing humanity at best and worst of times.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-01
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Skewwhiff
Overview: An elderly man insists on granting his wife’s wish of taking their car through a drive-thru car wash.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-14
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Young Einstein
Overview: Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-15
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What About Sal?
Overview: With his mother dying of lung cancer, Sal, in his 30's and with Down Syndrome, embarks on a journey to find his father - a rock band singer that his mother had a one-night stand with - 30 years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-25
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Paul Kelly: Stories of Me
Overview: An intimate portrait of Paul Kelly, Australia's foremost singer-songwriter. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has documented the history of our country, described its landscapes and cities, and captured the lives and loves of its citizens. Kelly has written over 350 songs, penned lyrics for many other singers, co-authored songs and written for film. But like all great artists Paul Kelly is both candid and reserved. He has lived in the public eye but has remained an enigma.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-12
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What if it Works?
Overview: Adrian, an irrepressibly chirpy tech nerd, has OCD. Grace, a beautiful street artist, has multiple personality disorder. It's a love story that seems impossible. But what if it works?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-29
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West of Sunshine
Overview: A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-23
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Just Between Us
Overview: Unadventurous office worker Hannah and her childhood friend Trixie's world is turned upside down when the ghost of her late sister appears; guiding them on a road trip to scatter her ashes at a destination she once sought but never found. What starts off as a simple journey turns into an unpredictable adventure and the two friends must overcome their sheltered existence and find out who they really are and what they are truly capable of.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-02
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The Harp in the South
Overview: We first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the bittersweet first and last loves of Roie, who becomes a woman too quickly living among the tenement houses, razor gangs, brothels and sly-grog shops of inner city Sydney.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-11
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Poor Man's Orange
Overview: Like its predecessor The Harp In The South, Poor Man's Orange was also adapted for Australian television by the Ten Network in 1987. It continues the story of the Darcy family, living in the Surry Hills area of Sydney. Originally a novel by New Zealand-born Australian author Ruth Park, the book was published in 1949. The Darcys a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock - Mumma (Anne Phelan), dad Hughie (Martyn Sanderson), Roie (Anna Hruby) and the younger daughter Dolour (Kaarin Fairfax), through whose eyes we hear their story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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The Resurgence
Overview: 20 Years into the future, the fallout after the war has left the majority of the world suffering. Ash has turned to a life of drugs and sex while trying to escape his guilt he hides away from most of the world.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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The Diver
Overview: Callan is twenty and is overcome with impulses that he finds it increasingly difficult to control. In order to protect others from his strange behavior, Malcolm, his father, tries to channel his son's attention by every means possible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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Paper Champions
Overview: It is an uplifting comedy about Rey, a young man who wants to find love despite having lost his 'Mana'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-06
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One Night the Moon
Overview: Based on the true story of a young girl who went missing in the Australian outback in 1932.
Genres: Drama Music Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-07
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Pillars
Overview: When tragedy strikes a small coastal town, those effected must decide to either pick up the pieces and confront their own misgivings or allow the cycle to continue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Shadow Panic
Overview: Three women appear connected in this short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-03
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