Television and film Rubenstein has worked in television comedies, drama, mini-series and TV movies. In 1970 she appeared in an episode of
Homicide. She played a recurring guest role in
Prisoner (1979–80), as terrorist
Janet Dominguez. She had leading roles in 1990 film
Breaking Through and 1985 miniseries
Palace of Dreams, the latter for which she won an
Australian Film Institute Award for
Best Actress. In 2004 Rubenstein played the scheming
Svetlanka Ristic for twelve episodes of the soap opera
Neighbours. In 1993, she had a solo show called ''What's a Girl to Do?'', where she performed poems written by contemporary Australian female poets. It was later performed by Rubenstein at
The Stables Theatre in Sydney (1994) and at the 1995
Edinburgh Festival. This show inspired her to do another solo show using work commissioned for her, work that was written to be performed live. She was awarded a Victorian Government Women Artist's Grant and commission contemporary writers to produce the performance pieces that were later produced in a book called
Confidentially Yours. The first performance was in the
Playbox Theatre Centre, C.U.B
Malthouse, Melbourne on 11 February 1998. The writers commissioned to produce the work that became
Confidentially Yours were
Janis Balodis,
Andrew Bovell,
Nick Enright,
Michael Gurr,
Daniel Keene,
Joanna Murray-Smith and
Debra Oswald.
Andrew Bovell wrote a pair of stories for the show that he later used in the script for the film
Lantana. In 2005, Rubenstein performed in
Menopause the Musical, a comedy breaking down the taboos about
menopause. with
Caroline Gillmer,
Susan-Ann Walker and
Jane Clifton. Rubenstein as 'The Dubbo Housewife', explored the stereotypes and madness of that time in a woman's life. In 2015, she played
Gertrude Stein in the musical
Loving Repeating - a Musical of Gertrude Stein in Melbourne.
Audiobooks Rubenstein has produced a significant body of work as a narrator of audio books and has won several awards in this field. ==Filmography==