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Sue Smithers is a Sydney based model/actress/singer that had extensive success as a catwalk and fashion model through the 1970's and 1980's gracing the catwalks of Paris and Milan and seen numerous times as a beauty model on covers of Australian magazines like Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Dolly, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Elle and Woman's Day to name just a few magazine publications of that period. Sue is the elder sister of actress/model/singer Joy Smithers.

Sue is probably best known for her regular role as Penny Russell on TV series "The Restless Years" during 1979 having replayed Deborah Coulls the original actress who was fired from the series for not being available for certain publicity appointments. Sue also spent part of the seventies living and working in the United Kingdom where she shared an English home with her partner Eric Idle of "Monty Python" fame where she mixed with the glitterati set of the likes of David Bowie, Mick Jagger, George Harrison and Grace Jones to name just a few. George and Sue were mates through Mick's girlfriend Jerry Hall at the time who was also modelling with Sue. Sue appeared in the music video "True Love" from George Harrison which was a moderate hit both here and in the UK during 1976.

By the early 1980's Sue was very much busy as a model back in Australia and scored her only film role to date as the co-lead with fellow actor Richard Moir in the 1982 feature film Sweet Dreamers. During most of the late 1980's and early 1990's Sue was also a cabaret performer and nightclub singer and released a couple of self financed albums to cd in the early 1990's.

Her private world was turned upside down by the late 1990's when her American ex-Husband Randy took her two sons on a trip back to the United States with him as he lead Sue to believe it was to be short-term holiday only to realise that her ex-husband Randy had not planned to return them and had filed custody for both of them indefinitely forcing Sue to be their estranged mother for over ten years or more. It was a very traumatic period in Sue's life though in recent years both Sue and her boys have made contact. Sue is busy with various charity work these days and can still be seen around for the right type of cause or event.

Filmography

FILM

Year	Title	Role	Type
1982	Sweet Dreamers	Josephine Russell	Feature film
2021	Step Into Paradise	Herself & Joy Smithers	Feature film documentary

TELEVISION

Year	Title	Role	Type
1975	Silent Number	Guest role: The Receptionist	TV series, 1 episode 33: "The Customer"
1975	Certain Women	Guest role	ABC TV series, 1 episode
1975	Homicide	Guest role: Sandra Stacey	TV series, 1 episode
1975	Two-Way Mirror	Recurring role: Alison Maxwell	TV pilot
1975	The Devil's Game	Role unknown	TV movie
1976	Target	Guest role	TV series UK, 1 episode
1979-1980	The Restless Years	Regular role: Penny Russell	TV series, 71 episodes
1984	Stephan Awards	Herself	TV special, UK
1989	Oz Rox	Herself - Presenter	TV series US
1991;1993	The Midday Show	Herself - Guest	TV series, 1 episode
1992	In Sydney Today	Herself - Guest	TV series, 1 episode
1993	A Current Affair	Herself	TV series, 1 episode
1993;1994	Ray Martin At Midday	Herself - Guest	TV series, 1 episode
1993	Sunday	Herself - Singer	TV series, 1 episode
1993	Ten Eyewitness News	Herself	TV series, 1 episode
1994	At Home	Herself - Guest	TV series, 1 episode
1994;1995	Midday with Derryn Hinch	Herself - Guest	TV series, 1 episode
1994	Live It Up	Herself	TV series, 1 episode
1995	Today Tonight	Herself	TV series, 1 episode
1995	Good Morning Australia	Herself - Guest	TV series, 1 episode
1995;1995	Midday	Herself - Guest	TV series, 2 episodes
1997	Sex and Beyond: 25 Years of Cleo	Herself	TV special
1998	Street Of Dreams	Herself	ABC TV documentary
1999-2000	Beauty And The Beast	Herself	TV series, 4 episodes
2014	The Daily Edition	Herself - Guest & Joy Smithers	TV series, 2 episodes
2015;2018	Studio 10	Herself - Guest	TV series
2018	Studio 10	Herself - Guest	TV series, 1 episode