Lena Farugia
FARUGIA, Lena. ((19*-) Actress, model, TV personality.
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Biography
Born in the United States, she has been living and working in South Africa since 1977, the year she married a SAouth African.
Training
Career
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She starred in Aubrey Berg’s production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof together with Ron Smerczak andVictor Winding for PACT in 1982. This play opened at the State Theatre before moving to the Alexander Theatre. She starred in Pieter Toerien’s production of Agnes of God together with Pauline Bailey and Fiona Ramsay which was directed by Nikolas Simmonds at the Baxter Theatre and the Alhambra Theatre in 1983. She starred in Mastrosimone’s Extremities together with Michael Richard with direction by Hugh Wooldridge for Pieter Toerien in 1984. She wrote and starred in We and Them at the Leonard Rayne in 1989. **
For television she acted in The Fiddler and The Bear. On film she appeared in The Sandgrass People. In 1987 she co-produced and edited the screen version of Saturday Night at the Palace.
Awards, etc
Sources
We and Them programme notes, 1989.
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