Maggie Kirkpatrick Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Maggie Kirkpatrick (born Margaret Anne Downs on 29 January 1941 in Albury, New South Wales) is an Australian actress, who is best known for her portrayal of the iconic character Joan Ferguson, a sadistic and corrupt lesbian prison officer known to the prisoners as "The Freak" in the popular Australian television soap opera, Prisoner. She is currently performing as Madame Morrible in the Australian production of the musical Wicked. She was born in Albury, a rural city on the border between New South Wales and Victoria, Australia to James and Crissie Downs. When she was seven months old her... MORE

Maggie Kirkpatrick (born Margaret Anne Downs on 29 January 1941 in Albury, New South Wales) is an Australian actress, who is best known for her portrayal of the iconic character Joan Ferguson, a sadistic and corrupt lesbian prison officer known to the prisoners as "The Freak" in the popular Australian television soap opera, Prisoner. She is currently performing as Madame Morrible in the Australian production of the musical Wicked. She was born in Albury, a rural city on the border between New South Wales and Victoria, Australia to James and Crissie Downs. When she was seven months old her father was killed whilst on active service as a soldier in North Africa. Crissie thus brought up Margaret alone until she married John Anderson and had a son, Adrian. The family moved to Newcastle, on the east coast of Australia, where Kirkpatrick grew up. She had had an interest in acting from an early age and appeared in several school plays. By November 1955 Kirkpatrick became fed up with school and left. Her mother sent her to drama lessons. In 1960, at the age of 19, Kirkpatrick took her first professional acting job, with John Alden's Shakespeare Company. After this initial production she LESS