Noni Hazlehurst is one of the most recognisable and loved faces on Australian screens. Whether you grew up with her twinkling blue eyes on Play School (‘which window shall we look through today?’) or watched her most recent performance in the heartwarming feature film June Again (where she plays a mother with dementia reconnecting with adult children played by Claudia Karvan and Stephen Curry), Hazlehurst projects a unique blend of toughness, kindness and humour.
‘When you’re in your sort of 20s and 30s, and even early 40s, you get a full character description and it’s more likely to be a leading character. But now that I’m in my 60s, I get offered roles anything up to sort of 80-year-olds, and they tend to just be a very brief character description of mum, typical mum, typical grandma.’
