Joanne Samuel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joanne Samuel (born 1957 in Camperdown, Sydney, Australia) is an actress who remains best known for her role as the screen wife of Mel Gibson in the 1979 film Mad Max.
Prior to her appearance in the film, Samuel had made guest appearances in police procedurals Matlock Police and Homicide. She was then a regular cast member in television soap operas Class of '74, The Sullivans and The Young Doctors. She left The Young Doctors very suddenly – the producers kindly wrote her out of the show quickly as she was offered the Mad Max role after a fellow Young Doctors actress who had been due to take the role fell ill. Samuel later returned to television in the regular role of Kelly Morgan-Young in Skyways (TV series).
Samuel later guest starred in Hey Dad! as Jeanette Taylor and All Saints, and played the school principal in The Wiggles in their film The Wiggles Movie.
Samuel is married to Tony Ahern. They have several children. They live in the Blue Mountains suburb of Blackheath and Samuel has retired from acting. Samuel is active in the local Baptist church. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joanne Samuel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Movie
Mad Max
as Jessie Rockatansky
1979
Movie
Mad Max 2
as Jessie Rockatansky (archive footage) (uncredited)
1981
Movie
Not Quite Hollywood
as Self
2008
Movie
My Pet Dinosaur
as Doris Mercher
2017
Movie
Alison's Birthday
as Alison Findlay
1981
Movie
Nightmaster
as Sonia Spane
1988
Movie
The Wiggles Movie
as Mrs. Bingle
1997
Movie
The Madness of Max
as Self
2015
Movie
Acute Misfortune
as Magistrate
2018
Movie
Mad Max Exposed
as self
2022
TV
The Young Doctors
1976
Movie
Queen of the Road
as Rosy Costello
1984
Movie
Early Frost
as Chris
1982
Movie
Christmas Down Under
as Barbara Parker
2021
Movie
What About Sal?
as Alice
2024
Movie
Spook
as Carole Bradly
1988
Movie
Gallagher's Travels
as Sally Woodrow
1987
TV
Skyways
1979
Movie
Smoke Between Trees
as Therese
2019
TV
Five Times Dizzy
1986
