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Australia’s number one drama is back A PLACE TO CALL HOME Holding the secret of James’ attempted Which secrets will come out? Which WAS THE MOST-WATCHED suicide forever linked Sarah’s future with secrets will be buried? the Blighs. AUSTRALIAN DRAMA A Place to Call Home is created by Bevan SERIES OF 2013. Over time, her connection with charming Lee, the man behind iconic Australian widower George Bligh developed into love, shows such as Packed to the Rafters, It was lauded by critics who hailed it and the unexpected romance helped Sarah Always Greener and Winners & Losers. ‘mesmerising’, ‘captivating’ and ‘a class move on from the death of her beloved The cast features MARTA DUSSELDORP act.’ With a combined weekly audience of husband Rene, murdered by the Nazis. 2.2 million viewers each week, it cemented as Sarah Adams, NONI HAZLEHURST as its place in TV history and people’s hearts. This series will see Sarah move into Ash Elizabeth Bligh, BRETT CLIMO as George Park and work to prove herself a fitting Bligh, CRAIG HALL as Dr. Jack Duncan, Last year’s dramatic finale saw the lives of wife-to-be for George, while his mother SARA WISEMAN as Carolyn Bligh, DAVID the Bligh family imploding. Elizabeth plays a devious waiting game BERRY as James Bligh, ARIANWEN After paying off Bert to keep him quiet to see what Regina will unearth about PARKES-LOCKWOOD as Olivia Bligh, about his son James’ sexuality, George Sarah’s past in Europe. ABBY EARL as Anna Bligh, ALDO MIGNONE as Gino Poletti, MATT LEVETT as Andrew was furious when he attempted to extort Little does Sarah know, Elizabeth will Swanson and FRANKIE J. HOLDEN as more money for him. uncover information that blows life as Roy Briggs. Shortly afterwards, Bert’s body was seen Sarah knows it sky-high... floating on the surface of the river. Meanwhile, Jack is furious at Carolyn for The first few minutes of the new series will having kept secret the fact they have a continue to keep everyone guessing. daughter. She refuses to reveal the child’s A seemingly typical morning at Ash Park name, wanting to protect the current is revealed to be something else entirely... status quo. Increasingly upset and angry, Jack announces he’s going to find out the Season one saw mysterious nurse Sarah identity of their daughter, no matter what. Adams put down tentative roots in the picturesque town of Inverness. Anna arrives at the Poletti farm for a three-month trial to see if her relationship Working her passage home aboard an ocean with Gino can survive. And in the city, liner, Sarah came into contact with wealthy Olivia is increasingly disturbed by the pastoralists the Bligh family when she savage nature of James’ treatment to saved the life of the troubled James Bligh. ‘cure’ his homosexuality. SARAH ADAMS PLAYED BY MARTA DUSSELDORP THE FIRST SEASON SAW Sarah now feels very much at home in Sarah is painfully aware more than most ENIGMATIC NURSE Inverness, forming close friendships that humanity has a dark side, and sadly, SARAH ADAMS PUT DOWN with local widower Roy Briggs and her even idyllic Inverness isn’t immune. employer, Dr. Jack Duncan. George isn’t Sarah’s forced to confront it head on when TENTATIVE ROOTS IN THE the only heart Sarah won, with Jack also James is blackmailed over his sexuality by PICTURESQUE TOWN OF professing his love for her. He’s accepted local thug Bert Ford – who turns up dead INVERNESS, AND BEGIN TO she’s in no position to return his feelings, soon after. and the experience has ultimately HEAL FROM THE HORRORS This series sees Sarah negotiating life at strengthened their friendship. SHE EXPERIENCED Ash Park, made all the more difficult by DURING WORLD WAR TWO. Sarah’s love affair with George has ruffled Elizabeth’s attempts to sabotage her the feathers of uncompromising matriarch relationship with George at every turn. Working her passage home aboard an Elizabeth Bligh. Fiercely protective of the “Sarah moves into Ash Park and we get ocean liner, Sarah came into contact Bligh legacy, Elizabeth has employed every to see her and Elizabeth at close quarters,” with wealthy Australian pastoralists the weapon in her significant arsenal to try to Marta says. “It’s a really interesting Bligh family, when she saved the life of thwart the romance, even stripping her son relationship, it’s a poker game.” the troubled James Bligh. A newlywed George of his Ash Park inheritance. tormented by his homosexuality, Sarah’s Little does Sarah know, Elizabeth will unwitting discovery of his potentially A convert to Judaism for her husband, unearth information that blows life as scandalous family secret forever linked Sarah is well aware of the vast chasm that Sarah knows it sky-high. her future with the Blighs. exists between her and the upper echelons of Australian society. It’s a challenge she’s Her immediate connection to James’ father, more than ready to take on. charming widower George Bligh, saw Sarah settle in Inverness, near the Bligh’s Determined to prove Sarah out of her beautiful estate, Ash Park. Over time, their depth, Elizabeth sets her a formidable connection developed into love, and the task. If Sarah can demonstrate she fits unexpected romance helped Sarah move into the Bligh’s social milieu, Elizabeth will on from the death of her beloved husband reinstate George as the heir to Ash Park. Rene, murdered by the Nazis. Although she knows Elizabeth is setting her up to fail, Sarah believes she owes it to George to at least try for his sake, and accepts the challenge. MARTA DUSSELDORP STARS AS SARAH ADAMS DISTINGUISHED ACTRESS Since then she has worked extensively in With a career spanning more than two MARTA DUSSELDORP theatre, film and television. Her film credits decades, her resume is teeming with SPEARHEADS THE include the critically acclaimed Praise, highlights but she counts her theatre credits Innocence and Burning Man. as her most memorable. “Playing to an TALENTED A PLACE TO audience is exhilarating and dangerous, one On the small screen, Marta has starred as CALL HOME CAST AS THE of the truest forms of human contact you Detective Sam Lawson in six Blackjack ENIGMATIC SARAH ADAMS. have,” she says. telemovies. Her other TV credits include The award-winning actress gravitated the telemovie Hell Has Harbour Views, the However, she’s relishing the opportunity of towards performing early in life. She took award-winning mini-series After The Deluge, sinking her teeth into a complex character ballet lessons from the age of four but it was Jack Irish opposite Guy Pearce, the ABC she can develop over the course of a series. her first speaking role in a school play which legal drama Crownies and more recently “That’s the beauty of television; you have sparked her interest in acting. Janet King. the opportunity to explore an amazing “I would have been about 10 or 11,” she Regarded as one of the country’s best stage character over however many episodes and recalls. “I did my first play and got my first actors, she was one of 12 actors who, in you don’t get that with a play,” she says. laugh. I remember hearing 300 people who 2005, were offered exclusive contracts by “Right now I’m in heaven. This is something were in the school hall laugh out loud and I the Sydney Theatre Company to form The I used to dream of.” thought, ‘This is brilliant to be able to bring Actors Company. Marta, 41, is married to actor/director Ben joy to people.’ During her three years with the STC, she Winspear, whom she met more than a “When I started using my voice, I realised appeared in The War of the Roses, which decade ago when they were both working the power of narration. I became addicted won her a Helpmann Award for Best at the Sydney Theatre Company. They to telling stories – initially it was with my Supporting Actress in 2009; Serpent’s reside in Sydney with their two daughters. body through dance and then I discovered Teeth, Mother Courage and Barrie Kosky’s my voice.” eight-hour The Lost Echo. After finishing school, she studied at the Her other notable theatre credits include University of NSW for two years, majoring in Melbourne Theatre Company’s Three theatre and film, before being accepted into Sisters and The Balcony, Company B’s the Victorian College of the Arts. national tour of The Underpants, an international tour of Cloudstreet and Like Soon after graduating in 1996, she received A Fishbone for the STC/Griffin Theatre; her big break in Bruce Beresford’s Paradise the STC production Victory opposite Judy Road, acting opposite Glenn Close, Frances Davis and most recently Never Did Me Any McDormand and Cate Blanchett. Harm, a dance theatre work by acclaimed choreographer Kate Champion. ELIZABETH BLIGH PLAYED BY NONI HAZLEHURST FIERCELY PROTECTIVE In an attempt to shock George into Ever resourceful, Elizabeth applies the OF THE BLIGH DYNASTY, submission, Elizabeth changed her will to same test to Sarah. Having thrown every MATRIARCH ELIZABETH make grandson James the beneficiary of obstacle in Sarah’s path she could think the estate instead of George. She makes of, Elizabeth changes tack and invites her WILL DO ANYTHING IN it clear she will only reverse the decision into her own home, hoping to highlight the HER FORMIDABLE when George ends the affair. But George social divide between Sarah and George POWER TO ENSURE THE is his mother’s son, and made of stern and thereby instill doubts in her son about CONTINUED SUCCESS OF stuff.