Olivia Hamnett Biography

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Olivia Hamnett (died November 2001) was a British actress born in Manchester, who found success after emigrating to Australia in the early 1970s.

In the UK Hamnett had guest roles in such television programs as Department S and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

She continued to act after moving to Australia, appearing in films and in several popular television series. She was probably best known for her performance in the television drama Prisoner as Kate Peterson, but had also played major roles in such series as Rush, the original miniseries of Return to Eden, The Power, The Passion, Pacific Drive and Neighbours.

On film, Hamnett played screen wife to Richard Chamberlain in The Last Wave and screen mother to young Ricky Schroder in The Earthling.

Her husband was actor Peter Regan.

Hamnett died in 2001 from a brain tumour.

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