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Joy Smithers

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Joy Smithers

Born July 15, 1963 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia14 films

Joy Smithers (born 15 July 1963) is an Australian actress, best known for her acting performances on television, and her role as a television news presenter, such as with MTV Australia in the late 1980s.

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Her credits include: All The Way, Bangkok Hilton, The Flying Doctors, Home and Away, Lorca and the Outlaws, Wildside and All Saints. For a short time she was co-host of Good Morning Australia. In September 2008 Smithers made a return to acting, as Bridget Simmons in Home and Away.

Smithers appeared in the 2008 Australian surfing film Newcastle, as well as the 2015 action film Mad Max: Fury Road. At the age of 15, Smithers was offered the role of Max Rockatansky's wife, Jessie, in the original 1979 Mad Max, but was forced to decline after her parents would not let her travel to Adelaide for production.

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Mad Max: Fury Road posterFirst watchMad Max: Fury Road20157.6as The VuvaliniAn apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life.View film

Filmography

14 films as actor
  1. 2015Mad Max: Fury RoadThe Vuvalini
  2. 2012Status Update - A Facebook FairytaleGenevieve
  3. 2010Lest We ForgetBell
  4. 2008NewcastleFlora
  5. 2004Love in the First DegreeLeslie Barrett
  6. 1997River StreetMarcia
  7. 1997Heart of FireJulie Stoler
  8. 1997Little White LiesReb
  9. 1995Sex Is a Four Letter WordSylvia
  10. 1994The Seventh FloorTracey
  11. 1994The CustodianHelen Quinlan
  12. 1985RebelMary, All Girl Band
  13. 1985Emoh RuoTerri Tunkley
  14. 1984Lorca and the OutlawsLena