Kerry Armstrong

Acting

Kerry Armstrong

Born 1958-01-03 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Kerry Armstrong (born 3 January 1958) is an Australian actress and author. Armstrong spent one year on the American soap Dynasty playing Elena Duchess of Branagh. She began her television career as a weather girl in Melbourne before taking acting training in Melbourne and New York. She lived in the US from 1981 to 1987. In 1987, Armstrong returned to Australia upon the death of her grandmother. In the early 1990s, she resumed acting in Australian television series, including Police Rescue, Ocean Girl, Come In Spinner, All Together Now and Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left. In 1991 Armstrong was nominated for an AFI award for Best Actress for her role in the film Hunting.

Acting credits

2:22 poster
6.0

Two planes almost collide after a blinding flash of light paralyzes air traffic controller Dylan Branson for a few seconds. Suspended from his job, Dylan starts to notice an ominous pattern of sounds and events that repeats itself in exactly the same manner every day, ending precisely at 2:22 p.m. Also drawn into a complex relationship with a woman, Dylan must figure out a way to break the power of the past and take control of time itself.

2:22

2017

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee poster
4.7

Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee

2020

Hunting poster
3.3

An American tycoon goes to Melbourne where he meets a married secretary.

Hunting

1991

Lantana poster
6.7

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

Lantana

2001

Heart of Fire poster
6.5

While fighting a petrol tanker blaze, troubled firefighter Max Tucker discovers a young girl trapped under its wheels and finds that it is up to him to save her.

Heart of Fire

1997

Two Heads Creek poster
5.2

A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and venture to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.

Two Heads Creek

2019

Dadah Is Death poster
5.0

On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.

Dadah Is Death

1988

Grievous Bodily Harm poster
5.0

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

Grievous Bodily Harm

1988

One Perfect Day poster
5.4

Tommy Matisse, a gifted musician, undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery and tragedy in Melbourne's dance music scene.

One Perfect Day

2004

Oyster Farmer poster
5.7

A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.

Oyster Farmer

2004

Pawno poster
6.2

Pawno is a character driven ensemble film set in the diverse and multicultural suburb of Footscray in Melbourne, Australia.

Pawno

2015

Amy poster
5.9

Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.

Amy

1998

Cornflakes for tea poster
NR

3 young children living in commission flats in Melbourne are left to try and fend for themselves, after their alcoholic Dad leaves them.

Cornflakes for tea

1981

Key Exchange poster
5.0

A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.

Key Exchange

1985

Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance poster
5.2

Razzle Dazzle follows the eager members of "Mr. Jonathon's Dance Academy" who, with their unique dance routines, compete for Grand Final success at Australia's most prestigious competition. Amidst parental politics, petty rivalry, creative controversy and the hysterics of pushy stage mothers, the film takes you behind the glamor and the glitter to a world where, sometimes, winning is everything!

Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance

2007

The Getting of Wisdom poster
5.4

Based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. A young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.

The Getting of Wisdom

1977

Our Effed Up World poster
NR

Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of shitkicker friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.

Our Effed Up World

2026

Nugget Is Dead?: A Christmas Story poster
4.6

When her beloved family dog Nugget falls sick over Christmas, a city dermatologist must return home to confront both her dysfunctional family, and the mortality of the one family member that brings them all together.

Nugget Is Dead?: A Christmas Story

2024

Car Pool poster
NR

Elliot London is sixteen and nervous - today, Chrissy, a girl Elliot fancies, will be sharing the ride to school. Despite Elliot's request of his mother that she say nothing, Mrs London begins speaking to Chrissy in far too much detail about her own puberty and Elliot's. As Elliot's privacy is shattered by his mother's personal revelations, he realizes any hope he has of a date with Chrissy is dashed to pieces - and he wishes he could be, too. So, no one is more surprised than Elliot when Mrs London's absolute frankness delivers dividends.

Car Pool

2006

Reservations poster
1.0

Set over a single day and night in a small, Manhattan hotel, this story leads us through the lives of its temporary inhabitants. As the paths of these strangers cross, they become connected.

Reservations

2008

Justice poster
8.0

An alcoholic homeless man is framed for a murder of an Internal Affairs detective committed by fellow detectives who she was investigating. With the help of the mother of a teenage runaway he helped, the homeless man tries to prove his innocence.

Justice

1998