McLeod's Daughters is the first prime-time drama series to be filmed entirely in South Australia. Jodi is Meg's 18-year-old daughter (the age refers to the beginning of the series, the end of season 5 she will be 22 - according to episode 1.04 she was born on February 7th, 1984, according to episode 5.21 she was born on April 11th, 1983). Last scene: 2003, RACHAEL CARPANI Character: Tess McLeod Stevie steps up to a new role with more responsibility, Tess struggles in a custody battle for baby Charlotte, and relationships seem to be flourishing all around. Simmone Jade Mackinnon says goodbye to McLeod's Daughters. "You got me on a good day," she says with a laugh. Sonia Todd (born 1963; Adelaide) is an Australian actress. Todd is married to Rhett Walton and has two sons (born in 1992 and 2000), the first from a previous relationship.[1]. She didn't want to make us upset before we had to shoot our scene, but, looking at her face, I knew. Played a terrifying killer in Wolf Creek and had roles in the movies Rogue and The Final Winter. But won’t go back though. I was still loving it. ", BRIDIE CARTER Character: Meg Fountain "Now that the move is over I'm feeling pretty good about the change. But, The O.C. "It's so sad," she says. He did, however, leave a party in 2011 carrying Lindsay Lohan. But that doesn't mean she is planning to head to Hollywood. Originally published asGate closes on Drover's Run. news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site. "They never just turned up unannounced. "This is unbelievable," said former star Aaron Jeffrey who visited the set to say goodbye yesterday. she says. After four years on the show, Todd decided to leave Home and Away to pursue other acting challenges. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. Jeffery has been on the Gold Coast shooting a lead role in Channel 9's new cop drama The Strip. Simmone Jade Mackinnon is picking herself up after the shock axing of McLeod's Daughters, even though the show's finale means she's out of work and home too. Last scene: 2006, JESSICA NAPIER Todd became known from the role of 'Georgia Rattray' in the television series Police Rescue, for which she won for an AFI Award in 1991. Not all of them good. Character: Nick Ryan She is a country girl at heart, but as a working actor Mackinnon may have thought twice before buying the farm had she known McLeod's had only a few months left. All times AEDT (GMT +11). Character: Jodie Fountain-McLeod Is rumoured to have a role in a new Channel 9 series, Strike Team, starring Georgie Parker. A few faces on the ranch are changing, too, with the arrival of Kate, the departure of Meg, and multiple pregnancies promising new life. The 29-year-old actor appeared in the ill-fated series The Alice and episodes of the Foxtel series Chandon Pictures, as well as Channel 7's All Saints. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. I knew it was bad news.". Last scene: 2003, AARON JEFFERY With the rest of the cast and crew leaving town as soon as the final scenes were shot in March, Mackinnon remained at her Lyndoch farm hoping to forge a life there without McLeod's. "But ask me again in a month's time, if I'm still unemployed.". When the end finally came, Mackinnon was stunned to find herself unemployed and staring down the barrel of paying off a mortgage on her new farm. Though most cast members based themselves in Adelaide and commuted to work each day, Mackinnon settled close by the set — first in Gawler and then last year buying the farm in Lyndoch. Character: Claire McLeod From 2001–06, 2007, 2009 (guest), she played 'Meg Fountain' in McLeod's Daughters. She is best known for her television roles as Sgt. She was also nominated for an AFI Award for her role in the four-part mini-series The Potato Factory (2000). Despite being forced to leave her beloved horses at her newly purchased dream home in Lyndoch to pursue new acting roles, Mackinnon is starting to feel optimistic about the future. "She looked at me and said 'Go and do your scene, we'll talk afterwards'. she says. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. After surviving major casting shake-ups, funding dramas and a drought, Mackinnon says the cast and crew were taken completely by surprise by the show's axing. Georgia Rattray in Police Rescue, Meg Fountain in McLeod's Daughters and Gina Austin in the soap opera Home and Away. The actor got out and moved to Australia when he was 17 to study acting at NIDA. "I realised I couldn't do this week after week without going completely stir crazy.". "It has been furnace-hot for more than two weeks and we're meant to look like we're working hard on the farm and I can tell you we really are. Appeared in the first series of Cane, with Jimmy Smits. "The final episode is called "The Long Paddock" and drought has ravaged the farm to the point it could go under and the girls are fighting to save it. US election: Donald Trump celebrity supporters include Rosea... SAS Australia Ali Oetjen couldn’t shower after poo incident. Starred in the kids' TV series Double Trouble and has a small role in the new X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, with Hugh Jackman. Cast and crew filmed in 43 degree heat at Drovers Run, a farm one hour north of Adelaide. Carter won the seventh series of Dancing with the Stars in 2007 and now appears in an ad for children's cough mixture. "I know a lot of people say it took 10 years before it finally happened for them, but I'm too old to wait that long now. "I really hoped to stay in South Australia, I loved it there. But now that it's happened I'm embracing it.". The series, which is currently in its seventh series, is a co-production between Millennium Television and Nine Films and Television, produced with the assistance of the South Australian Film Corporation. Last scene: 2007, JOHN JARRATT “I knew I was never going to leave Ivan, I knew I was always going to have him in my life. "I have never seen it so bone-dry before. In the aftermath of Claire's death, everyone's life at Drovers Run is different. "It was horrible — Posie and Andrew (Blaxland, Graeme-Evans' husband and a McLeod's producer) turned up and we knew that couldn't be good," she says. "It was always going to be a gamble to buy a place there.". McLEODS Daughters is in its final days of production and is fittingly being seen off by the longest heatwave in South Australia's history. ... Why would I want to leave and risk unemployment when I already got to go to work every day and do something I loved?" Mackinnon is finding it difficult to adjust to having so much free time. [2] She appears in the legal drama Janet King. did return for a brief 4th season that was a whole lot better. Sonia Todd (born 1959; Adelaide) is an Australian actress. I want to be home and working. ... Jodie Fountain-McLeod Last scene: 2007. She studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art and starred in the play Strictly Ballroom, directed by Baz Luhrmann. McLEODS Daughters is in its final days of production and is fittingly being seen off by the longest heatwave in South Australia's history. Before McLeod's, Mackinnon did the Hollywood thing and managed to score a role on Baywatch: Hawaii. I’ve been told Grey’s Anatomy is good again. Accustomed to juggling a busy filming schedule on McLeod's, Mackinnon soon found herself "climbing the walls" of her isolated four-bedroom farmhouse. Character: Terry Dodge She also played the waitress, Sylvia, in the film Shine directed by Scott Hicks, in the café scene where Geoffrey Rush plays Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov to an understandably stunned audience. "It was very humbling," said star Matt Passmore. Also, who knows, maybe McLeod’s Daughters will make a comeback. The New Zealand-born actor is now focusing on her music career, having released her first album — inspired by her time on the McLeod's set — in 2006. Last scene: 2008, MYLES POLLARD Filmed Law Dogs, a pilot for US network CBS starring Janeane Garofalo that was not picked up. Not all of them good. "I've been there, done that and it didn't happen for me," she says. "Five years on the one show was great. Todd held a recurring role in All Saints from late 2007 to early 2008; she portrayed psychiatrist Dr Elizabeth Foy. “I did self-sabotage the relationship and in a way friend-zoned Ivan just to get home,” she said. But with little or no acting opportunities in South Australia, Mackinnon soon realised she would have to travel to Sydney or Melbourne for auditions to secure work. [2], Learn how and when to remove this template message, Sonia Todd at the Home and Away official website, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonia_Todd&oldid=985771195, National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni, Use Australian English from February 2014, All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English, BLP articles lacking sources from June 2010, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Episodes: "Motherly Love: Part 1 and Part 2", Performed at NIDA in Sydney in 1984, and in, Performed at NIDA in Sydney and at St Martin's Youth Arts Centre in, This page was last edited on 27 October 2020, at 21:20. Mackinnon says she's tried life in the US and now considers herself too old to go back for seconds. She also appeared in All Saints previously, playing the part of Kate Larson, In January 2009, Todd joined the cast of Seven Network drama series Home and Away in the regular role of Gina Austin. "It probably would have been easier to accept the close of the show if I had started to want to do other things. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2020. Why would I want to leave and risk unemployment when I already got to go to work every day and do something I loved?" Even after five years playing feisty redhead Stevie and seeing many of her castmates and close friends leave the show, Mackinnon says she had never considered quitting McLeod's. Memories. Don’t leave … I gave it a second chance once before and was hoodwinked back into the crap. Mackinnon has moved back to her father's house in Coffs Harbour, with Sydney a short flight or "just six or seven hours' drive" away. Mackinnon is hopeful she may be able to "do a Russell Crowe" and one day have the sort of career success that allows her to spend part of the year on the land. Last scene: 2006, LISA CHAPPELL "I don't want to sound like I'm whingeing about it," she says. ... Sonia Todd, Myles Pollard and Jeffrey. McLeod's Daughters was arguably one of Australia's most beloved TV shows, but despite the title, not much was known about the titular character. Character: Alex Ryan The 35-year-old actor was "devastated" when McLeod's creator Posie Graeme-Evans arrived at the South Australian set last November to break the news that the series would draw to a close this year. "Talk about method acting," said current star Luke Jacobz. The actor lives in Byron Bay with her husband and young son, Otis. "I know how lucky I am. Last scene: 2007, SONIA TODD She is best known for her television roles as Sgt. "The popular show's eighth and final season will air later in the year but filming will wrap on Thursday.The decision to end the show has traumatised the district and nearby town of Gawler which has benefited from the production for the past eight years.More than 4000 people turned up for a farewell last Friday at the Gawler Showground.
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