Maggie Kirkpatrick - The Prisoner Connection (Joan Ferguson, The Freak) Part 1

Margaret Anne Kirkpatrick (née Downs; born 29 January 1941) is an Australian stage and screen actress who has appeared in numerous theatre, television and feature film roles since the late 1950s .

Kirkpatrick starred in the TV series Prisoner (known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the UK and North America), portraying the character "The Freak" Joan Ferguson, a sinister and cold lesbian prison officer. She performed in the premiere Australian production of the musical Wicked as Madame Morrible.

Kirkpatrick has appeared in numerous TV series including Richmond Hill, Betty's Bunch, Water Rats, G.P. and Blue Heelers, as well as two roles in All Saints and Home and Away. In 1960, at the age of 19, Kirkpatrick took her first professional acting job, with theatre impresario John Alden's Shakespeare Company. After this initial production she promptly gave up acting. Kirkpatrick subsequently took various jobs, including working in dress shop, as a medical receptionist, compère of fashion parades, and she also had jobs in bars, restaurants, and hotels.

Downs married Norman Kirkpatrick, a merchant seaman of the Shankill Road in Belfast, in September 1963. Five years later they moved to Sydney where Kirkpatrick decided to resume her acting career. After appearing in two plays she put her acting career on hold once again, this time due to the arrival of her daughter Caitlin. Kirkpatrick resumed theatre work as Caitlin got older from 1964 onwards, and from 1976 onwards moved on to television and cinema.

Kirkpatrick appeared in the music video for "Anthem for the Year 2000" by rock band Silverchair. Kirkpatrick returned to TV in 2017 after a 9-year hiatus, having in recent years appearing primarily in theatre roles, appearing in Australian TV mini-series The Letdown before Sando, The Bureau of Magical Things and Eden (2021).

This video is split into 2 parts:
Part 1 feature appearances from The Godfathers, Father, Dear Father in Australia, Chopper Squad, Cop Shop, Spring & Fall and appearances up to episode 400 from, Prisoner, feature films The FJ Holden, The Night, the Prowler, The Getting of Wisdom and The Pirate Movie and several commercials.
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Part 2 more highlights from Prisoner, Richmond Hill, Betty's Bunch, Home and Away, The Ferals, G.P., Water Rats, The Miraculous Mellops, Pizza, Blue Heelers, All Saints and Sando as well as live theatre in The Ham Funeral and The Shoe-Horn Sonata, films Encounters AKA Voyage Into Fear, Billy's Holiday, Welcome To Woop Woop and Hetty.

"Maggie Kirkpatrick" Joan Ferguson" "The Freak" "Prisoner" "Prisoner Cell Block H" "Cop Shop" "Richmond Hill" Home And Away" "Viv ‘The Guv’ Standish" "Jean Chambers" "All Saints" "Blue Heelers" "G.P." "Water Rats" "The FJ Holden" "The Night, the Prowler" "The Getting of Wisdom""The Pirate Movie" "The Ham Funeral" and "The Shoe-Horn Sonata" "Encounters" AKA "Voyage Into Fear" "Billy's Holiday" "Welcome To Woop Woop" "Hetty"
"Harold Hopkins" "Anna Volska" "Robert Bruning" "Tina Grenville" "Karlene Rogerson" "Beryl Marshall" Susannah Fowle" "Kerry Walker" "Dennis Grosvenor" "Tony Hughes" "John Krummel" "Patrick Cargill" "Sally Conabere" "Sigrid Thornton" "Ric Herbert" "Terry Norris" "Roy Tucker" "Louise Phillip" "Moya Sullivan" "Greg Ross" "Paula Duncan" "Don Crosby" "Christopher Atkins" "Ted Hamilton" "Elspeth Ballantyne" "Judith McGrath" "Patsy King" "Val Lehman" "Sheila Florance" "Colette Mann" "Amanda Muggleton" "Wayne Jarrett" "Betty Bobbit" "Carole Skinner" "Gerda Nicolson" "Tina Bursill"