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
Correlli’s home life is in a state of hectic confusion.
Other key characters included kindly drugs and alcohol counsellor, Sister Pat Riley (Sue Jones) and young prisoner Brett Hodges (Jonathon Brooks).
