Debra Byrne, born in Melbourne, Australia on 30 March, 1957, is an Australian entertainer. Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ... This article is about the profession. ...

Byrne made her television debut on Brian and the Juniors, an early predecessor of Young Talent Time, which was hosted by a young Brian Naylor. She stayed with the show for 12 months. In 1971 she was cast as one of the original six Young Talent Time cast members. Byrne proved to be a popular cast member and in 1974 she won the Logie Award for Best Teenage Television Personality and the TV Week Queen of Pop Award. Young Talent Time was an Australian television variety program screened on Channel Ten. ... The Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. ... TV WEEK is a weekly television magazine in Australia, first published as a Melbourne-only publication in 1957 (as TV-Radio WEEK) and bearing a strong affiliation to television station GTV-9. ...

In 1975, her final year with Young Talent Time, she recorded her first solo single, She's a Rebel, and for seven weeks the song stayed at Number 1 on the Victorian pop charts. Later in 1975 she again won the Logie Award for Best Teenage Television Personality and the TV Week Queen of Pop Award. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... For the 1979 song by M, see Pop Muzik. ... Music charts also known as the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40 is a method of ranking the most popular music during a given period of time. ...

In 1976 she was invited to London by Peter Gormley Management to record at Abbey Road Studios under producer Cliff Richard. While in London, she made many public appearances, including The Cliff Richard Show. London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Abbey Road Studios, created in November of 1931 by EMI in London, England, is best known as the legendary recording studio used by the rock bands Cliff Richard and The Shadows and The Beatles. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb in Lucknow, India, on October 14, 1940) is one of the United Kingdoms most popular singers. ... Cliff Richard Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb in Lucknow, India, on October 14, 1940) is one of the United Kingdoms most popular singers. ...

Byrne's first Australian television guest appearance as a featured solo artist was on The Graham Kennedy Show at the age of fifteen. Since then she has made a guest appearance on every major Australian Tonight show and was a regular performer on the ABC series The Saturday Show. In 1978 she merged singing with acting for the first time on the ABC's Sammy Award winning Follies series. In 1980 Byrne co-starred alongside John Farnham in the ABC television show Farnham and Byrne. Kennedy finally quit IMT on December 23, 1969, exhausted, and retired from TV for two years; in spite of his fame and fortune, he later described the period as years of misery. After a special on 2 March 1972 he returned with The Graham Kennedy Show on 19 September 1972... The ABC or Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the national, Australia. ... The ABC or Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the national, Australia. ... John Peter Farnham (born July 1, 1949), is an Australian pop singer. ... The ABC or Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the national, Australia. ...

After much rumour, Byrne's career stalled between 1980 and 1985 due to a heroin addiction. However, she made a successful and highly-publicised career comeback in 1985 with the starring role as Kathy McLeod, opposite Matt Dillon, in the film Rebel. She was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her performance in this film. Heroin or diacetylmorphine (INN) is a semi-synthetic opioid. ... Addiction is a compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its consequences. ... Matthew Raymond Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an American actor. ... The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was established in 1958. ...

In 1988 she was invited to perform at the Royal Bicentennial Concert for the then Prince and Princess of Wales. Her backing group for the concert was comprised of 1500 children. The Prince of Wales The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ... Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Spencer) (1 July 1961–31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. ...

Byrne has enjoyed a successful stage career interspersed with appearances on such televisions programs as The Secret Life of Us, Home and Away, Police Rescue, The Flying Doctors, G.P., State Coroner and Law of the Land. She has also worked as a producer of the Australian Survivor, the Australian reality television series Weddings, and the video Oz Encounters: UFO's in Australia, which she also wrote. The Secret Life of Us is a television drama series, set in the beachside suburb of St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. ... Home and Away is a weeknightly half-hour television soap opera produced in Australia. ... Police Rescue is an Australian television series made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and shown between 1990 and 1994. ... The Flying Doctors was an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... Australian Survivor was a television series based on the popular American reality show Survivor. ...

In 1991 Byrne released her album Caught in the Act, which eventually went gold. And in 1994 she released her contemporary album Sleeping Child, in which she sings about sexual abuse, addiction, loss and grief. She continues to be a prolific stage artist, and has starred in many productions including the roles of Grizabella in Cats and Fantine in Les Miserables, and feature roles in Jerry's Girls and Hot Shoe Shuffle. She was invited to reprise the role of Fantine for The World Symphonic Recording of Les Miserables, which featured the best performers from worldwide productions. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Theatre Musical Soundtrack. A Gold album is a music album that has sold a minimum number of copies (in the United States, currently 500,000 sales). ... Sexual abuse is a relative cultural term used to describe sexual relations and behavior between two or more parties which are considered criminally and/or morally offensive. ... Addiction is a compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its consequences. ... Loss has several meanings including: Loss in electronics is the ratio of the system output to system input In electronics, loss is the ratio of system output to system input. ... A funeral in Sarajevo, in 1992-1993. ... CATS The Musical is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber (ALW) in 1981 based on Old Possums Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, adapted by Richard Stilgoe. ... Les Misérables is an 1862 novel by the famous French novelist Victor Hugo, set in the Parisian underworld. ... Jerrys Girls is a Broadway musical revue based on the songs of composer Jerry Herman. ... The Grammy Awards (originally the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American...

In recent years Byrne has been most notable for her role of Norma Desmond, opposite Hugh Jackman, in the first Australian production of Sunset Boulevard, and her extensive live cabaret and concert performances. She also wrote, directed, choreographed and starred in the live stage musical Girls, Girls, Girls, which was the 2002 winner of the Herald Sun Best Cabaret Award. And her live cabaret show, Caught In the Act Again, earned a Green Room Award nomination for Best Cabaret Performance and Best Musical Arrangement. Norma Desmond is the name of the main character in Sunset Boulevard. ... Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor who portrayed Wolverine in X-Men (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men 3 (2006). ... Sunset Boulevard is a musical play based on the movie of the same title. ... Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue - a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... Choreography literally dance-writing, also known as dance composition), is the art of making structures in which movement occurs, the term composition may also refer to the navigation or connection of these movement structures. ... The Herald Sun is a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that is published by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ...

Since 1972 Byrne has been a regular performer at the Christmas Eve Carols by Candlelight concert at Melbourne's Sidney Myer Music Bowl. At the 2005 concert she performed a duet of Silent Night with her five-year-old daughter, Lulu, who was making her stage debut. The Christmas Eve (1904-05), watercolor painting by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Christmas Eve, December 24, the day before Christmas Day, is treated to a greater or a lesser extent in most Christian societies as part of the Christmas festivities. ... Carols by Candlelight is an Australian Christmas tradition that has spread around the world. ... The music bowl in Kings Domain, Melbourne The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is a world standard, architecturally significant, outdoor performance venue in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Duet may refer to: Duet, musical form Duet, Fox sitcom This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Autograph of the carol by Gruber Silent Night is a traditional and popular Christmas carol. ... Look up debut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Debra is divorced from Australian actor Neil Melville and is now married to French musician, Ced Le Meledo, with whom she collaborated on the live musical show Paris-Melbourne. She has three children. Neil Melville is an Australian actor. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...

Partial Discography

Solo Recordings

• She's a Rebel (single)
• Da Doo Run Run (single)
• Debbie Byrne
• Say Goodbye To The Broken Hearted (single)
• Heaven Down Here
• New ways To Dream
• Caught In The Act
• Sleeping Child

Collaborative Albums

• Cats
• Les Miserables
• The World Symphonic Recording of Les Miserables
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Young Talent Team Sing the Hits!
• Young Talent Time - The Collection
• Great Moments in Australian Theatre
• Young Talent Team 10th Anniversary Special
• Rebel Soundtrack
• The Best of Carols by Candlelight
• Kate Ceberano & friends
• John Farnham - One Voice: The Greatest Hits
• Disney Duets - A Family Celebration

Awards

• 1974 TV Week Logie Award for Best Teenage Television Personality,
• 1974 TV Week Queen of Pop Award
• 1975 TV Week Logie Award for Best Teenage Television Personality,
• 1975 TV Week Queen of Pop Award
• 1985 AFI Award nomination for Best Actress in a Lead Role for Rebel,
• 1985 Mo Award for Female Vocal Performer
• 1991 Grammy Award for Best Theatre Musical Soundtrack, shared with cast of The World Symphonic Recording of Les Miserables
• 2002 Herald Sun Best Cabaret Award for Girls, Girls, Girls
• Green Room Award nomination for Best Cabaret Performance and Best Musical Arrangement for Caught in the Act Again

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References

• Turner, G., Cunningham, S., The Australian TV Book, Allen and Unwin, NSW, 2000. ISBN 1865080144
• Young terror time
• Sunset Boulevard press release
• A taste of Broadway
• Australian Child Stars of the Century
• Deb's little girl Byrnes bright
• Girls, Girls, Girls
• 1974 TV Week Logie Award winners
• 1975 TV Week Logie Award winners
• 1985 Mo Award Winners
• Original idols still send their loving
• Where are they now?

External links

• Debra Byrne at the Internet Movie Database