Georgie Sterling

Georgie Sterling was a New Zealand-bornAustralian actress, initially slated to become a doctor, she trained for her acting career at Trinity College London in England, she was noted for her work in radio and television, especially in TV films and serials, although she also appeared in theatre, in an acting career spanning over a 55-year period.
Sterling was in her early career styled as Australia's Ginger Rogers, but with blonde hair and curls and started her career in the 1930s appearing in the film Rangle River starring Hollywood actor Victor Jory and also in 1941 in That Certain Something, she featured in theatre he preferred genre in the early 1940s and by the late 1950s in the new media of television, including appearing in a TV movie version of Hamlet. In serials she played Isabella Drysdale in the ill-fated series Taurus Rising but is possibly best known for her role as May Walters in Sons and Daughters. She also appeared in Homicide, Matlock Police and several roles in A Country Practice including centenarian Polly Waterford.

Personal life

She was married to fellow actor and radio producer John Saul, who died in 1979. She lived independently after his death and died sometime prior to 2017, noted when her home at Newport went up for sale, she was said to have been aged in her 90's when she died.

Selected filmography

Theater

see also: AusStage database

Title	Year	Role	Playwright	Type
Point Valaine	1942		Noël Coward	Theatre - spoken word - comedy/drama
The Importance of Being Ernest	1942-1943	actor	spoken word	-
You Can't Take it With You	1943	actor	George Kaufman	spoken word - theatre
Love is a Mist	1944	actor	Kenneth Horne	Theatre / comedy
Little Lamb's Eat Ivy	1949	actor	Noel Langley	Theatre spoken word / comedy
The Yearling	1949	Ma Baxter	Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	Play
Hamlet	1959	actor	Shakespeare	Play / Filmed for ABC television