Film and Other Adaptations
In the 1983 Australian TV movie about the case, Who Killed Baby Azaria?, Chamberlain was played by Elaine Hudson. In the 1988 film Evil Angels (released as A Cry in the Dark outside of Australia and New Zealand) the role was played by Meryl Streep, whose performance received an Academy Award nomination for best actress in 1989. Miranda Otto played Chamberlain in the 2004 Australian TV mini-series Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story.
- Who Killed Baby Azaria? (1983) (TV, Network Ten) at the Internet Movie Database
- "Evil Angels" or "A Cry in the Dark" (1988) at the Internet Movie Database
- Through My Eyes (2004) (TV, Seven Network) at the Internet Movie Database
Australian composer Moya Henderson wrote the opera Lindy to a libretto by Judith Rodriguez. In 1990, the Rank Strangers' recording of their song "Uluru", which supported the Chamberlains and called for compensation to be paid to them, finished in the final five of the Australian Country Music Awards in Tamworth, New South Wales.
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