Acting
Penny Cook
Born 1957-07-13 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Penny Cook (13 July 1957 – 26 December 2018) was an Australian actress, stage director, TV presenter and writer. She played roles in the soap opera A Country Practice, as Vicki Dean Bowen from 1981 to 1985, E Street as lead anchor-character, Dr Elly Fielding, between 1989 and 1991, and Neighbours in the recurring role of Prue Brown from 2007 to 2010. Cook died from cancer on 2018, aged 61.
Acting credits
5.6When a group of Indigenous activists attempt to repatriate ancestral artifacts found in a cave on Australia's Kangaroo Island, one of them is shot, evading police and taken to a local hospital, where the doctor attending to her experiences strange visions relating to violent events from the past.
The Dreaming
1988
4.0A maniac is stalking and killing female students at a university.
Coda
1987
7.0Dramatisation of the 1991 perjury trial of former Queensland state Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Joh's Jury
1993
5.7A country football coach who has a plan to rebuild the local football team by recruiting recently settled asylum seekers.
The Merger
2018