Correlli

1 9 9 5 (Australia)
10 x 50 minute episodes

Deborra-Lee Furness starred in this 10-part ABC drama series as Louisa Correlli, a clinical psychologist who has recently re-entered the workforce and is working as a counsellor at Blackstream – a maximum-security all-male prison.

Correlli’s home life is in a state of hectic confusion.

She is emerging from a failed marriage, has two teenage children, and her immediate superior at the prison, Sam Mantelle (Richard Piper) is a former lover.

Meanwhile, convicted armed robber Kevin Jones (Hugh Jackman in his first major TV role after completing drama school) arrives at Blackstream beaten and suffering from brain damage – a state he wasn’t in at sentencing.

Something happened to Kevin during his transfer, and Louisa tries to help him remember. To Officer Ben Costa (William Zappa), Jones represents the ghost of misery past.

Other key characters included kindly drugs and alcohol counsellor, Sister Pat Riley (Sue Jones) and young prisoner Brett Hodges (Jonathon Brooks).

After meeting on the set of Correlli, Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness married in April 1996.

Louisa Correlli
Deborra-Lee Furness
Kevin Jones
Hugh Jackman
Sister Pat Riley
Sue Jones
Danielle Correlli
Tenley Gillmore
Anthony Correlli
Paul Reardon
Sam Mantelle
Richard Piper
Officer Ben Costa
William Zappa
Governor Jim Sanderson
Neil Melville
Officer Gilbert
John Brumpton
Officer Narelle Jenkins
Anthea Davis
Toby Miller
Grant Piro
Slug
Dan Reaper
Murphy
Doug Bowles
Downs
Julian Branagan
Officer Cross
Tom Considine
Debbie Wilson
Helen Trenos
Brett Hodges
Jonathon Brooks
Officer Ross Bannerman
Robert Morgan
Officer ‘Fatz’ Bingham
Marcus Eyre
Officer Mark Bagley
Damien Pree
Geoff ‘Spoons’ Morton
David Schofield
Warren ‘Budgie’ Keating
David Ngoombujarra
Officer Helen Buckley
Denise Roberts
Officer Reid
John Atkinson
Dean ‘Specs’ Redman
Bill Young
Stephen Haines
David Argue