JUDY Nunn has an instantly recognisable face. One that has graced Australian television screens since 1974 but yesterday she came to Orange for her other passion, writing.
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The role that many people grew up knowing her for was as Ailsa Stewart in the soap opera Home and Away but that was many years ago.
She acted in the show from 1988 until the character was killed off in 2000.
Ms Nunn said she now calls herself a writer/actor but years ago it was actor/writer.
Since Ms Nunn penned her first adult fiction book in the early 1990s she hasn’t looked back.
Yesterday’s visit to Orange City Library was part of her tour to talk about her newly released 12th book Elianne.
This book, like many others, shows her love of writing Australian historically-based fiction.
“Often it’s fictional characters living in real events,” she said.
“When you think of it we’re all living in history.”
Released this month Elianne tells the story of life in the great sugar mills of southern Queensland.
The Northern Territory city of Darwin was the inspiration for another of her books Territory.
“I don’t know of any other place that’s been obliterated twice, once in the Japanese bombing [1942] and another time during Cyclone Tracy [1974],” she said.
Ms Nunn makes a point of extensive tours throughout regional and remote Australia each time she launches a book.
“I love it because most of my books are set in remote places,” she said.
Ms Nunn has also acted in The Box, had a short stint on Prisoner and Sons and Daughters.
“I get Ailsa a lot but I also get people say you’re Judy Nunn and that’s great.”
