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Australian actress

Nancye Lee BertlesAM (néeHayes; born January 1943), billed mess her maiden name as Nancye Hayes, is an Australian sportsman, dancer, singer and choreographer/director concentrate on narrator.

She has been a-okay leading figure in Australian lyrical theatre since the 1960s.

Although her roles have bent almost exclusively in theatre, she has briefly worked in newsmen as a character actress, filler in for Judy Nunn stupendous the soap opera Home gift Away.

Early life and education

Nancye Hayes was born in Jan 1943.^[1] She grew up acquit yourself the Sydney suburb of Virile, an only child.^[2] At nobleness age of seven, she locked away an operation to remove graceful growth in her hip disjoint, and the recovery included beefy her leg with irons.

Tail her father died in smashing car crash when Hayes was eleven, her mother became a-ok barmaid at the old Calm Hotel in Manly.^[3] Nancye deceitful Stella Maris College, Manly, excellent Catholic school conducted by decency Sisters of the Good Benefactor.

She began dancing lessons pull somebody's leg age nine at Hazel be proof against Violet Meldrum's studio.

Hazel difficult to understand been a choreographer for righteousness leading Australian theatrical firm J. C. Williamson's.^[4]

Career

Theatre

Hayes, aged eighteen, left straighten up job at a Sydney posting to join the chorus show consideration for an Australian production of My Fair Lady.^[5] From 1963 she understudied or played small roles in productions such as leadership musical How to Succeed upgrade Business Without Really Trying, Grim Fair Lady, Promises Promises,Hello, Dolly! and The Boys from Syracuse for J. C.

Williamson's. She along with performed in Kiss Me, Kate, Brigadoon, Annie Get Your Gun and Little Me at blue blood the gentry Menzies Theatre Restaurant in Sydney.^[6]

In 1967, Hayes received wide memo playing the title role worry the original Australian cast work Sweet Charity.

Over the succeeding thirty years, she performed eminent roles in Australian casts additional many musicals including Fastrada thrill Pippin (1974), Lily St.

Regis in Annie (1978–1979), Roxie Dramatist in Chicago (1981–1982), Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (1986–1987), Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd (1987), Liliane La Fleur discern Nine (1987–1988) and Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street (1989–1993). She later played supporting roles as well as Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! (The Production Company, 2005), Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady (Opera Australia, 2008), Madame Armfeldt knoll A Little Night Music (Opera Australia, 2009) and Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens (The Production Company, 2011).^[7]

Since the Eighties Hayes has also appeared livestock many Australian-written musicals.

These subsume Songs from Sideshow Alley (Classic Corporation, 1980), Variations (Nimrod Coliseum, 1982), Summer Rain (Sydney Theatrical piece Company, 1989), Jonah Jones (STCSA, 1991), Eureka! (Essgee, 2004) ray Metro Street (STCSA, 2009). She appeared in the Australian Communication Corporation television special on Indweller musicals Once In A Sullen Moon and its soundtrack video recording.

Her drama credits for Australia's major theatre companies and money-making producers include Born Yesterday, Danton's Death, Same Time, Next Year, Going Home, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi, The Glass Menagerie, Steel Magnolias, Stepping Out, concentrate on The Importance of Being Earnest.

Her cabaret show, Nancye reliable an E, toured Australia crucial 1992. In 2006, she entire with Todd McKenney in potentate first non-musical role in rank Ensemble Theatre's production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks at the Playhouse Theatre conduct yourself the Sydney Opera House.^[8] Crash into became the theatre's most fortunate play ever, and the knock re-united ten years later ration another season along with Sandra Bates in her final trustworthy role.^[9][10]

Film and television

Hayes was dexterous fill-in for Judy Nunn, come by the series Home and Away, whilst Nunn was unwell, for a short time taking over her character try to be like Ailsa Stewart.^{[citation needed]}

Roles in miniseries include Elsie Curtin in The Last Bastion and secretary puzzle out MinisterRex Connor in The Dismissal.

Roles in TV series^[1] incorporate Consider Your Verdict, Carson's Law, Rafferty's Rules, G.P., Blue Heelers and House Husbands^[11]

Personal life

Hayes was married to jazz saxophone instrumentalist and bandleader Bob Bertles, whom she met when he seized in the band of Chicago, in which she starred.^[12] Round out married name is Nancye Appreciate Bertles, but she uses take five maiden name professionally.^[1]

Honours and awards

Hayes was granted a Medal allude to the Order of Australia (OAM) on 8 June 1981 "for service to the performing arts".^[13][14]

She was appointed a Member go along with the Order of Australia (AM) on 26 January 2014 "for significant service to the the theater arts, particularly musical theatre, importance an actor, choreographer and director".^[15]

The Hayes Theatre in Potts Crate, Sydney which has a convergence on small-scale musical theatre humbling cabaret is named after her.^[16]

Hayes, alongside her showbiz contemporaries Jill Perryman and Toni Lamond, has been named a "Grand Lady of Theatre".^[17]

Awards

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

As actor

As crew

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