Vivienne Garrett - Following Career - Post 96

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After leaving the series she worked in repertory theatre before abandoning her Western lifestyle to live and meditate in a religious community in India for 18 months. After this she returned to Australia and worked on student films for Australian Film Television and Radio School, again acted in theatre and on television, and appeared in the feature film Caddie (1976). She also briefly resumed the role of Rose for a limited number of episodes of Number 96 in September 1975, and appeared in a recurring sketch in comedy series The Norman Gunston Show called The Checkout Chicks. This sketch, a send-up of melodramatic soap operas set in a supermarket, mostly featured other former Number 96 actors – Abigail, Candy Raymond, Philippa Baker, Judy Lynne, Anne Louise Lambert.

Theatre roles include Hamlet, The Crucible, Butterflies are Free, On Our Selection, Top Girls. In the 1980s she had a role in miniseries Bodyline (1984). Subsequent film roles include Boundaries of the Heart (1988), Let's Get Skase (2001), and The Shark Net (2003; TV movie).

As of 2006 Garrett could be heard on Australian television as a voice-over artist. She has also worked as an acting lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

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