Elizabeth Anne Clark (born 6 November 1953) is an Australian former politician with the Labor Party in the Queensland Legislature who held the seat for Clayfield and also an actress of television and film, director, producer and presenter, credited as Liddy Clark and Liddy Clarke.
Acting career Clark has various film and television credits to her name. She is possibly best known however, for her two small screen roles in the cult series Prisoner. She played child killer Bella Albrecht for two episodes in 1979 and Sharon Smart, the victim of a crooked religious cult, for six episodes in 1983.
In 1988, Clark played the role of battered wife Kerry Barlow in Home and Away. She was a regular cast member in the series Fire and has made guest appearances in Cop Shop, Matlock Police, The Sullivans, Kingswood Country, A Country Practice and Echo Point. She also featured in the Prisoner re-imagining series Wentworth.
She was a presenter on the long-running children's program Play School.
Clark's film credits include Mad Dog Morgan, Blue Fin, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Touch and Go, Kitty and the Bagman and Annie's Coming Out.
Political career In the 1998 Queensland state election, she challenged Liberal minister Santo Santoro in the normally safe Liberal seat of Clayfield. While Santoro defeated her on the first count, Clark picked up a seven percent two-party swing to make the seat marginal.
In 2001 she challenged Santoro again, and this time won. Even allowing for the massive Labor wave that swept through the state in that election, Clark's election was considered a shock result. She was reelected in 2004.
She was briefly Minister for Indigenous Affairs in the government of Peter Beattie. She was involved in the so-called "Winegate" affair. A bottle of wine was taken aboard a government jet travelling to a "dry" indigenous community in North Queensland. Two of Clark's staff were moved from their jobs over the affair, and after an independent inquiry Clark was cleared of any wrongdoing.
She resigned from the Ministry in March 2005.
Filmography Film Year Title Role Type 1975 Sidecar Racers Cashier Feature film 1976 Caddie Receptionist Feature film Mad Dog Morgan Alice Feature film 1977 The Importance of Keeping Perfectly Still Film short Blue Fire Lady Betty (as Liddy Clarke) Feature film 1978 Blue Fin Ruth Pascoe Feature film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Kate Feature film 1980 Touch and Go Helen Feature film 1982 Cargo Film short Kitty and the Bagman Kitty O'Rourke Feature film 1983 On Guard Amelia Film short 1984 Annie's Coming Out Sally Clements Feature film 1986 Push Start Film short 1989 To Forget Ghosts Film short 1993 The Nostradamus Kid 'General Booth Enters Heaven' Strolling Player Feature film 1998 Waste Feature film 2003 About Face Film short
Television Year Title Role Type 1974 Matlock Police Patti TV series, 1 episode 1977 Bluey Esme Fulcher TV series, 1 episode The Sullivans Marge TV series, 4 episodes 1978–1981 Cop Shop Joanne McPherson / Karen Ashby / Kathy Simpson / Sandra Mazzorino TV series, 6 episodes 1979 Ride on Stranger Shannon TV miniseries, 4 episodes 1979–1980 Don't Ask Us Various characters TV series 1981 A Sporting Chance Jo Travinska TV series, 10 episodes Holiday Island Meredith TV series, 1 episode 1982; 1992 A Country Practice Louisa Kennedy / Faith Finlay TV series, 5 episodes 1982 Living Together TV pilot Jonah Pinkey TV miniseries, 4 episodes 1982–1984 Play School Presenter TV series, 5 episodes 1982 Watch This Space Herself TV series 1981; 1983 Prisoner Bella Ulbricht / Sharon Smart TV series, 8 episodes 1980; 1984 Kingswood Country Jennifer / Vicki TV series, 2 episodes 1986 The Challenge TV miniseries, 3 episodes 1987 Coda Sally Reid TV movie 1988 Home and Away Kerry Barlow TV series, 10 episodes Swap Shop Dot TV series Barlow and Chambers: A Long Way From Home (aka Dadah Is Death) Gilda Rickman TV miniseries, 2 episodes 1988; 1989 Rafferty's Rules Faye Irwin TV series, 3 episodes 1989 Grim Pickings Verity ‘Birdie’ Birdwood TV miniseries, 2 episodes Living With The Law TV series 1990 The Flying Doctors Carol TV series, 1 episode 1991 G.P. TV series, 1 episode 1995 Echo Point Iris Delaney TV series, 11 episodes 1995–1996 Fire Jean Diamond TV series, 17 episodes 2012 Tangle Dr. Taylor TV series, 1 episode 2015 Wentworth Hazel Fullager TV series, 1 episode2025The White LotusAustralian Woman1 episode
Stage
As actor Year Title Role Type 1974 Doctor in the House Miss Winslow 'Riggie', a nurse Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Warner Theatre, Adelaide, Newcastle Civic Theatre with AETT & Crawford Theatre Productions 1976 The Foursome VCA, Melbourne with MTC 1976 City Sugar Nicola Davies St Martins Theatre, Melbourne with MTC 1977 No Worries Wendy La Mama, Melbourne 1977 Ravages: Dropping In Jean La Mama, Melbourne 1977 Obsessive Behaviour in Small Spaces Spider Prentiss UNSW Old Tote Parade Theatre, Sydney 1978 Makassar Reef Camilla Ostrov Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne with MTC 1978 Freaks Petunia Playbox Theatre, Melbourne with Hoopla Theatre Foundation 1980 Ticka-Tocka-Linga Victorian regional tour with Victoria State Opera 1980 Big River Monica Hindmarsh Arts Theatre, Adelaide, Canberra Theatre, Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, with MTC 1983 On Our Selection Lily White Melbourne Athenaeum with MTC 1984 Don's Party North Qld regional tour with New Moon Theatre Company 1984 Beach Blanket Tempest Kelly North Qld & NT regional tour, Playhouse, Adelaide, Canberra Theatre, University of Sydney with New Moon Theatre Company 1985–1986 Sons of Cain Crystal Playhouse, Melbourne, Theatre Royal Sydney, Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane, Wyndham's Theatre, London, with MTC 1987 Educating Rita Rita Playhouse, Newcastle, with Hunter Valley Theatre Company 1987 Away Townsville Civic Hall with New Moon Theatre Company 1989 Nice Girls Prue Anthill Theatre, Melbourne, Monash University with Playbox Theatre Company 1989 The Man from Mukinupin Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane with QTC 1990 After Dinner New England Theatre Company, Armidale 1990 Beach Blanket Tempest Q Theatre, Penrith 1993 Summer of the Aliens Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane, with Metaluna Theatre Company & QPAC 1993 Canaries Sometimes Sing Marian Street Theatre, Sydney 1994 A Bedfull of Foreigners Newcastle Civic Theatre, Canberra Theatre with Les Currie Productions Chapter Two MTC Benefactors MTC
As director Year Title Role Type 1992 Robin Hood and the Cheryl of Nottingham Director Tilbury Hotel, Sydney
References
External links Personal website