Pat McDonald (actress)

Patricia Ethell Pat McDonald was an Australian radio actress and actress of stage and television and the daughter of one of Australias most prominent electric radio engineers and public servants, Arthur Stephen McDonald and his wife, milliner Edith Roseina Ethell. Her grandfather, bootmaker John McDonald, was born in Victoria, and married Eliza Mary Stevenson.

McDonald was born in 1921, and at the age ofacted in the 1939 Australian film Seven Little Australians based on the novel by English childrens literary writer Ethel Turner she played the twentyyearold stepmother Esther. She much later appeared in an episode of the 1971 police drama The Long Arm. The role in Number 96 followed she reprised the role in the 1974 feature film version of the series. McDonald won several Logie Awards as Best Actress for playing Dorrie, and a Gold Logie for Australias most popular female personality in 1974. After Number 96 she played a regular role in the shortlived Australian situation comedy series The Tea Ladies .

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