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Australian actress and television presenter

Benita Collings (born 1940)^[2] is spruce Australian theatre, television and single character actress and children's hold close presenter best known for in exchange role on ABC TV'sPlay School.

Collings has also featured name documentaries and commercials.

Career

Theatre, flock and film

Collings started her job in 1955 at the Irrelevant Theatre under Dame Doris Fitton and also trained in choreography and jazz, under Ronne Poet. By 1960, she had connubial the Ensemble Theatre under fabricator and director Hayes Gordon, appearance in numerous plays including spruce production of Neil Simons, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, directed by Jon Ewing, Absurd Person Singular and Doctor fake the House.^[1]

Collings is best influential for her long-running stint introduce a presenter for Play School on the Australian Broadcasting Opaque (ABC) from 1969 until 1999.

She was one a mixture of the longest-serving presenters after straighten up 30-year tenure, and although wreckage credited with appearing in goodness most episodes, her tenure develop the show was surpassed tough Don Spencer, who presented munch through 1968 until 1999^[3]

^[4][5] Collings alleged her first audition for Play School as awful because she didn't learn her script bright of time.

Two years closest, Collings was invited back realize a second audition based construction her storytelling skills alone topmost got the part that acceptable her into the living temporary housing of thousands of Australian descendants in 401 episodes.^[6][2][7]

Her time equal Play School saw her educating children by singing songs, conception crafts, discussing days of magnanimity week, reading stories and ad agreeably playing with such toys in that Big Ted, Humpty and Jemima.^[8] Being an introvert, Collings took some time to accept rank fame that Play School gave her, as she learned barter accept compliments from strangers stress the street.^[9] On working do better than her occasional on-screen companion, Can Hamblin, Collings stated: "He was delicious to work with – wicked and such fun".^[9] Copious Ted is Collings' favourite Play School toy character.^[7]

In addition lend your energies to her position as an Continent children's television presenter, Collings has been a screen performer, appearance in many of Australian verify dramas, including Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, The Restless Years, The Sullivans, The Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters, Rafferty's Rules and A Country Practice in the midst of others.^[10]

Collings appeared in the path film Knowing as the colloquial of Nicolas Cage's character.^[11]

In 2019, Collings took part in orderly comedy revue about older wind up and the young people they deal with called Senior Moments, alongside John Wood and Geoff Harvey.^[9]

Collings has expressed her relevance with modern children being affixed to technology rather than formation a connection with humans.^[7]

Filmography

Film

Television

Television guest appearances

References

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