Australian screen and stage actor Janet Andrewartha has died aged 72.
Andrewartha was born in the US on 16 September 1952, later moving to Australia with her family.
In addition to her better-known television roles, Andrewartha also appeared in programs such as Blue Heelers, A Country Practice and Carson’s Law, as well as the 1998 US mini-series Moby Dick (which was shot in Melbourne and starred Patrick Stewart as the monomaniacal Captain Ahab) and the 2017 mini-series Seven Types of Ambiguity, based on the novel of the same name by Melbourne writer Elliot Perlman.
