Vera Plevnik

Australian actress

Vera Plevnik (c. 1955/1956 - 27 January 1982) was an Australian actress, born to Yugoslav-Russian parents best known for winning a Logie for her performance as a resistance fighter Nadia Grosse in the TV movie The John Sullivan Story, a spin-off of the TV series The Sullivans[1][2]

She initially trained at teachers college, but chose acting, training at the Victorian College of the Arts.

Plevnik died in a car crash near Batemans Bay when her late model Sedan hit another vehicle coming north from the Princes Highway, the 60 year old driver of the other vehicle also was killed .[3]

She was a friend of James Reyne and her life inspired several of his songs.[4]

## Select credits[edit]

* The Golden Oldies (1977) – play
* The John Sullivan Story (1979) – TV movie
* The Sullivans (1980) - TV series
* Cop Shop (1980) - TV series
* Young Ramsay (1980) – TV series – episode "The Littlest Goldmine"
* The Same Stream (1981) – short
* The Fame is Shared (1981) – live performance[5]
* Conundra (1982) – play
* Monkey Grip (1982) – Feature film
* Going Down (1982) – Feature film[6]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "The Logie winners". Canberra Times. 15 March 1980. p. 3. Retrieved 28 December 2015 - via National Library of Australia.
2. ^ "VERA PLEVNIK she does it her way". Australian Women's Weekly. 4 June 1980. p. 57 Supplement: FREE Your TV Magazine. Retrieved 28 December 2015 - via National Library of Australia.
3. ^ "Actress dies in car smash". Canberra Times. 29 January 1982. p. 3. Retrieved 28 December 2015 - via National Library of Australia.
4. ^ "Going Down". australianscreen. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
5. ^ "What's On Where". Filmnews. Sydney. 1 August 1981. p. 14. Retrieved 28 December 2015 - via National Library of Australia.
6. ^ Sawyer, Mark (15 April 2011). "The morning after the night before". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 14 September 2019.

## External links[edit]

* Vera Plevnik at IMDb
* Vera Plevnik at AusStage