Tessa Humphries

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Tessa Humphries
Born1963
OccupationActress
Parents

Tessa Humphries (born 1963) is an Australian actress, best known for her appearances in television soap operas.

Career[edit]

Humphries performed in Cassandra as the title character,[1] and also played Mary Reynolds in Sons and Daughters and Corinne Todd in Families. In 1995 she played Tracy in Sex Is a Four Letter Word. She also starred in Out of the Body as Neva St. Clair.[citation needed]

Personal life[edit]

Humphries is the daughter of the late comedian Barry Humphries and his second wife, Rosalind Tong.

She was married to producer Jason Buesst with whom she has two sons.[citation needed]

She has three siblings – sister Emily (b.1965) and half-brothers Oscar (b.1981) and Rupert (b.1982).

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year Film Role Notes
1977 The Getting of Wisdom Extra Feature film
1987 Cassandra Jill / Cassandra Feature film
1988 Out of the Body Neva St. Clair Feature film
1995 Sex Is a Four Letter Word Tracy Feature film
1997 Paradise Road Celia Roberts Feature film
2004 Human Touch Kate Feature film

Television[edit]

Year Film Role Notes
1985–1986 Sons and Daughters Mary Reynolds TV series
1990–1991 Families Corrine Todd TV series
1991 G.P. Gabrielle TV series
Episode: "Telling Tales"
1993 Law of the Land Hannah Scott TV series
2001 The Secret Life of Us Nerida TV series
Episode: "The Unbelievable Truth"

Television (as self)[edit]

Year Film Role Notes
1997 Good Morning Australia Guest TV series, 1 episode
1997 Hey Hey It's Saturday Guest TV series, 1 episode
2023 Barry Humphries State Memorial Herself TV special
2023 10 News First Herself (Barry Humphries State Memorial) TV series, 1 episode
2023 7 News Herself (Barry Humphries State Memorial) TV series, 1 episode

Stage[edit]

Year Film Role Notes
1981 When Lips Collide Dame Edith Playbox Theatre, Melbourne with St Martins Youth Arts Centre

References[edit]

  1. ^ Official Trailer - CASSANDRA (1987, COlin Eggleston, Briony Behets), archived from the original on 22 December 2021, retrieved 14 September 2021

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