Zoe Bertram

Zoe Bertram is an Australian actress, who is known for her role as Olivia Baxter in The Restless Years from 1977 to 1981.

Career

Bertram started her acting career in 1977, on the teen-oriented television soap opera The Restless Years, playing the role of Olivia Baxter – eventual wife of Dr Bruce Russell – until 1981. In 1983, she joined Prisoner, playing scheming prostitute Randi Goodlove for 14 episodes, until her character met a grisly demise.
In 1991, Bertram starred in children's series Animal Park playing Sarah Halliday. She played Paula Taylor in Paradise Beach from 1993 to 1994. She also appeared as Laurel Trent in 1994 film The Roly Poly Man with Paul Chubb. From 1995 to 1996, she featured in a number of The Feds telemovies, alongside Robert Taylor.
Bertram played Dorothy Ryan, opposite Richard Roxburgh in The Last of the Ryans – a 1997 tv biopic about Ronald Ryan, the last man to be executed in Australia. That same year, she appeared as Juliet in the drama film Under the Lighthouse Dancing, alongside Jacqueline McKenzie, Jack Thompson and Naomi Watts. From 1997 to 1998, she starred in children's adventure series Mirror, Mirror as Violette de Lutrelle.
From 2009 to 2010, she appeared in a series of television advertisements for Australian Pensioners Insurance.
In July 2011, Bertram joined the cast of Neighbours in a recurring guest role as Polish cleaner Lorraine Dowski. She re-joined the cast in 2017, in the recurring role of Fay Brennan, making her first onscreen appearance on 28 July. She departed the series in 2021, with Faye, dying after developing pneumonia.
Bertram also appeared in 2017 miniseries Seven Types of Ambiguity, playing the part of May Heywood opposite Hugo Weaving.
Her television guest credits include Chopper Squad, Patrol Boat, Cop Shop, A Country Practice, miniseries Come in Spinner, Blue Heelers, The Flying Doctors, G.P., Home and Away, Good Guys, Bad Guys, Stingers, Rush, City Homicide, Winners & Losers and the TV series reimagining of Picnic at Hanging Rock.