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Wendy Hughes (born 29 July 1952 in Melbourne, Australia) is an actress.

She began her career on television in the early 1970s with appearances in Homicide, Number 96 and Matlock Police. Her big screen debut was in 1974 in the film Petersen.

She then spent the rest of the 1970s and 1980s as one of the leading actresses in Australian cinema, with roles in Newsfront, Kostas, My Brilliant Career
, Lucinda Brayford, Touch and Go, Hoodwink, Lonely Hearts
, Careful, He Might Hear You
, My First Wife, I Can't Get Started, An Indecent Obsession, Echoes of Paradise, Boundaries of the Heart, Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train and Luigi's Ladies.

She also continued to make occasional appearances on television, such as playing Jilly Stewart in the mini-series Return to Eden.

During the early 1990s, she spent time in the United States and made guest appearances on TV shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation and Homicide: Life on the Street.

Back in Australia, she played lead roles on television in Banjo Paterson's The Man From Snowy River ("Snowy River: The McGregor Saga"), and State Coroner. Film appearances around this time include Princess Caraboo and Paradise Road
.

She has been nominated for Australian Film Institute acting awards six times, and won the Best Lead actress award in 1983 for her performance in Careful, He Might Hear You
.

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