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Fernande Glyn

Fernande Glyn was an Australian television and stage actor. She was well-known in the 1960s for her television and theatre work, most notably for her starring role as Eve Halliday on Hunter.

Early life
Glyn's parents were Ferdinand Glynn (1865–1930), a labour organiser and salesman, and Minnie Vos (1896–1937) a saleswoman. An orphan from the age of ten, Glyn attended the Santa Maria Convent School in Lawson, New South Wales. Glyn's unusual first name was a feminine version of her father, Ferdinand's, name. ==Career==
Career
Career in Britain Glyn worked in Britain between 1952 and 1958, appearing on both BBC and ITV television programs. She also appeared in the Colwyn Bay Repertory Theatre's production of Ragtime by David Read in 1956. Soon afterwards she acted (as ‘mother’) alongside John Unicomb (‘father') in Dennis Driscoll's Off the Deep End, also for the Colwyn Bay Repertory Theatre. Glyn's last known work in Britain was in two television films from 1957 – The Bloodless Arena and The Kentish Robin. Career in Australia In 1958, Glyn returned to Australia and in mid-1959 was appearing with Unicomb as part of J. C. Williamson's Shakespeare Company in a Melbourne production of The Merchant of Venice. Glyn was noted by the The Age's theatre critic as a 'seductive Jessica'. Glyn next played Regan in King Lear, delivering a performance The Sydney Morning Herald's critic described as 'firm and confident but unsuccessful in suggesting depths of character behind all the superficial hatefulness'. The following year, Glyn and Unicomb were appearing in a regular radio comedy, Mr. and Mrs., part of a feature known as Omnibus on Sydney radio station 2GB. The series, described as 'a sophisticated domestic comedy', was written by James Carhartt. In June 1961 Glyn appeared in an Australian television drama for the first time, in the role of Bessie in The Sergeant from Burralee. She appeared in an episode of Whiplash soon afterwards. In November of the same year, she appeared alongside Barry Creyton in an adaptation of the novel East Lynne at the Neutral Bay Music Hall. In late 1962, both Glyn and Unicomb had lead roles together, alongside David Hutcheson and Martine Messager in another J. C. Williamson’s production, a play adapted from Marcel Achard's ''L'Idiote, called A Shot in the Dark, a French comedy which ran for nearly four months in Sydney and Melbourne. 1964 also saw Glyn act alongside Tony Ward, who would later be her Hunter co-star, as well as her aunt Neva Carr Glyn, in Rape of the Belt'', a television play for the ABC. In early 1965, Glyn became a 'weather girl' for ATN7, working two nights a week in the role. During this time she and Unicomb were guest stars together on The Mavis Bramston Show. In June, she also appeared in a play written and directed by Bob Herbert, Campari Rocks. Her next play, The Deadly Game, was an adaptation by James Yaffe of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novel and subsequent play A Dangerous Game. It ran at the Independent Theatre, North Sydney in January and February 1966. A television play followed, Marcel Pagnol's Topaze, in which Glyn played Suzy. Critic Harry Robinson praised Glyn, writing that 'her quirky lips and eyes' reflected 'the dry humour of the play most accurately'. In 1966 she also appeared in an Adelaide production of Noël Coward's Private Lives. Hunter Glyn's relationship with Crawford Productions began with a role in an episode of Consider Your Verdict in 1963, followed by an episode of Homicide. She was then contracted to play the character of Eve Halliday in Hunter. The pilot for Hunter was made in secret in 1966 as Tony Ward was under contract to another channel; it was announced in The Age's 'TV-Radio Guide' in early 1967 that Ward would star with Glyn as 'a pretty secretary'. This characterisation was revised the following week when she was instead described in the same paper as 'an experienced agent' who 'takes no-one at face value'. There was, however, very limited backstory for the character – aside from that she was a widow and that her husband, Gary, had been in the CIA and killed at the age of 34. Ward's character says in episode 7 of the series ("The Prometheus File Part 3") "She doesn't talk much about it." Glyn did not appear in the second series of Hunter. By 1980, Glyn was described in an article on the NSW National Youth Film Festival as 'the current Warringah Council arts officer and former actress'. ==Personal life==
Personal life
Glyn met actor John Unicomb met when they were playing lead roles in rival Shakespearian productions in Sydney. A year later, the couple relocated to London, where they were married in their first few weeks there. The couple remained in the UK for six years, spending the first two years in London, working in stage, radio, and television. after which time, they bought a caravan and toured England, Wales, and Scotland with theatrical groups. Son David told journalist Stephen Nicholls that 'With a walking frame in tow in the later years, she would frequently invite strangers who looked in need back to the apartment for a cup of tea or a meal, never concerned for her safety or her possessions.' Late in life, she suffered from dementia and 'a debilitating muscular disease.' When she died in 2012, Glyn was survived by a second husband, entrepreneur Willy Stader. Stader lived at their Cremorne apartment another ten years after Glyn's death, dying at the age of 102. ==Television==
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