Cracknell,+Ruth

RESEARCH SCAFFOLD  || //" My mother was a great influence on my life. Perhaps the most important person in my life really... she had the ability to act, she was a great entertainer and when any of my friends came home for dinner for instance, she would automatically and very naturally entertain them."// When Ruth was four her father sold the bakery. They moved to Sydney and for a time lived with Ruth’s aunts. My aunts, of whom I had seven who were not married were wonderful characters and they were all individual and I just loved being with them so I was very much influenced by these quite fascinating women who surrounded me. Ruth completed her schooling at North Sydney Girls High School and started work as a clerk with Kuringgai Council. || Chronological reference to people and experiences that influenced the person explaining how they influenced them. ||  at seventeen years of age, a friend took her to see a play. When I went up the steps of that theatre, it was a musty smell, red plush curtains that were very dusty and I knew with an absolute blazing vision that that was what I wanted to do. Without, hesitation, Ruth joined the Modern Theatre Players drama school. For the next four years, Ruth spent most of her time learning mime, movement and voice production. She was in heaven. By the time she was aged twenty-one, Ruth was performing five episodes of radio plays each week. ||  ||  Awarded Golden Logie Hall of Fame Award: lifetime achievement award Helpman Awards for the performing arts 2001: published an autobiography entitled A Biased Memoir in 1997: documentation of her last holiday with her late husband, entitled Journey From Venice: a few short years later. Cracknell was also honored by the National Trust as one of Australia's Living National Treasures in 1998. || Well known persons working at the same time. ||  * [|Ed Begley, Jr.]1997 Why do their life is regarded as significant and why they are admirable. || popular Australian films [|The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith] (1978) and [|Night of the Prowler] (1979), Cracknell would find success mother of a hapless son (Gary McDonald) in the long-running Aussie television staple Mother and Son (1983-1994). would appear theatrical releases Spider and Rose (1994) and Lillian's Story (1995) Awarded Golden Logie Hall of Fame Award and a lifetime achievement award at the Helpman Awards for the performing arts in 2001. And movie The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith.
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 * [|Toni Collette]1996
 * [|Nicole Kidman]1989
 * [|John Hargreaves]1989
 * [|John Waters]1986
 * [|Bryan Brown]1978
 * [|Chips Rafferty]1971
 * [|Sybil Thorndike]1958
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 * ^  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> The effect ruth Cracknell had on the people was that she was an ordinary Aussie who portrayed Australians in her Theartre,T.V and movie rolls and became a much loved personality. ||
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