Overview
- Wendy Playfair’s death was announced on Instagram by podcast host Matt Batten, who said her family reported she died peacefully at 99.
- She was best known for portraying Minnie Donovan on Prisoner: Cell Block H and appeared on Home and Away in 2005 as Evelyn Grey and in 2009 as Audrey Long.
- Playfair’s career began in radio and extended across theatre, television and film over many decades.
- Her screen work included the films Accidents Happen alongside Geena Davis and the Walt Disney–produced Ride a Wild Pony.
- Her final television role was in a 2013 episode of Packed to the Rafters, and she died about five months before her 100th birthday.