358:'TV-Radio Guide' in early 1967 that Ward would star with Glyn as 'a pretty secretary'. This characterisation was revised the following week when she was instead described in the same paper as 'an experienced agent' who 'takes no-one at face value'. The character of Eve Halliday was far from a passive assistant but instead involved extensively in the espionage storylines. Glyn told the
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Unicomb, told journalist Stephen Nicholls that 'With a walking frame in tow in the later years, she would frequently invite strangers who looked in need back to the apartment for a cup of tea or a meal, never concerned for her safety or her possessions.' Late in life, she suffered from
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Leonie
Newberry that Halliday was 'sophisticated, warm yet strong, dedicated to what she does and capable of doing all sorts of things.' There was, however, very limited backstory for the character - aside from that she was a widow and that her husband, Gary, had been in the CIA and killed at the age
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dementia and 'a debilitating muscular disease.' When she died in 2012 she was survived by a second husband, entrepreneur Willy Stader. Stader lived at their
Cremorne apartment another ten years after Glyn's death, dying at the age of 102.
307:, in which Glyn played Suzy. Critic Harry Robinson praised Glyn, writing that 'her quirky lips and eyes' reflected 'the dry humour of the play most accurately'. In 1966 she also appeared in an Adelaide production of
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Glyn's unusual first name was a feminine version of her father, Ferdinand's, name. She was sometimes credited with the last name 'Glynn' rather than 'Glyn', as per the original version of her father's last name.
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Glyn's parents were
Ferdinand Glynn (1865-1930), a labour organiser and salesman, and Minnie Vos (1896-1937) a saleswoman. An orphan from the age of ten, Glyn attended the Santa Maria Convent School in
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Glyn worked in
Britain between 1952 and 1958, appearing on both BBC and ITV television programs. The first record of Glyn's stage work is in Wales: she appeared in a 1952 production of
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Unicomb, who had married in the first few weeks of their tenure in the UK, returned to Australia and in mid-1959 both were appearing in Melbourne as part of
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of 34. Ward's character says in episode 7 of the series ('The
Prometheus File Part 3') 'She doesn't talk much about it.' Glyn did not appear in the second series of
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Rutledge, 'Carr-Glyn, Neva Josephine (1908–1975)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
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critic described as 'firm and confident but unsuccessful in suggesting depths of character behind all the superficial hatefulness'.
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by David Read in 1956. Soon afterwards she acted (as ‘mother’) alongside John
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was made in secret in 1966 as Tony Ward was under contract to another channel; it was announced in the
Melbourne
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Stephen Nicholls, 'Cremorne penthouse owned by the late TV and stage actress Fernande Glynn up for auction'
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Stephen Nicholls, 'Cremorne penthouse owned by the late TV and stage actress Fernande Glynn up for auction'
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and Martine Messager in another J. C. Williamson production, a play adapted from
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soon afterwards. In November of the same year she appeared alongside
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theatre critic as a 'seductive Jessica'. Glyn next played Regan in
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