Cassandra Webb
Biography
Cassandra grew up both in Sausalito, California and in the Australian Outback. She studied in England at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Slavic Languages and Literature. At Berkeley, she was awarded a President's Fellowship to translate and produce three Russian One-Act plays with Professor Simon Karlinsky and Professor Andrew Wachtel, now a Dean at Northwestern University. As Cassandra Webb, she had a successful acting career in Australia, starring as Suzi in the British Sci Fi film Starship, and played the blind Kelly Burns on the successful Australian television series Sons and Daughters. Her stage work includes Nora in the Australian National Premiere of Brighton Beach Memoirs, Australian National Tour of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and she portrayed several of Shakespeare's heroines Hermia, Juliet and Desdemona. She starred in Peter Gabriel's video of San Jacinto. Cassandra Wiseman lives happily and haphazardly in the wild woods of Topanga Canyon and has three children. She has served on boards of several charities, focusing on feeding the hungry and providing free classes in the arts to children at risk. She has created many school fundraisers. Her non-fiction essays have been published online on Freshyarn and in print in the Topanga Messenger and Marinscope..
Known For & Full Filmography2 Titles
Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Kelly Burns
Sons and Daughters was a Logie Award winning Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson and produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation between 1981 and 1987. The first episode aired on Monday, 18 January 1982, during the Christmas/New Year non-ratings period in Sydney and Melbourne, and the official broadcast date of the final episode was 19 August 1987, although this varied across Australia and the final episode was screened in Melbourne on Sunday 27 December 1987. There are 972 half-hour episodes but during the series' original run in Australia, later episodes were shown in an hour-long format and the first pilot episode as shown in Australia was actually a 90-minute special; subsequent screenings have seen that episode split into three half-hours.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Suzi
Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids incapable of any emotion. The young Lorca and his android professor, Kid, are both in this tended situation. To find the liberty, they must at any costs seize a spaceship, the "Red Star", but they quickly have to face an android killer...