List of Prisoner characters – inmates
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This is a list of inmates of the fictional Wentworth Detention Centre in the television series Prisoner, known as Prisoner: Cell Block H in the United States and Britain and Caged Women in Canada. Episode numbers cited are first and last appearances; many characters were absent for long periods of time before returning. Character appearances in recaps are not included if they died in the previous episode, unless their body is seen at the beginning of the next episode (for example, Paddy Lawson).
| Character | Actor | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sally Lee | Lisa Aldenhoven – episode 1 | The first prisoner seen in the series, chased through the corridors by officers Meg Jackson and Vera Bennett after a bad reaction to drugs supplied by "bent screw" Ann Yates. Later in the episode, Sally hangs herself in her cell. The series' first halfway house is named in her honour. |
| Frieda Joan "Franky" Doyle | Carol Burns – episodes 1–20 | A lesbian bikie who has ferocious outbursts when angry, Franky's violent attitude stems in part from her illiteracy. She falls in love with fellow inmate Karen Travers (who is uncomfortable with her advances), but they become friends when Karen begins teaching Franky how to read. Popular with viewers, Franky appears in only the first 20 episodes; Carol Burns left when the series was extended beyone sixteen episodes. After her brother Gary (Greg Stroud) is killed in a tractor accident and she misinterprets Karen's friendship, Franky escapes with Doreen and Lizzie. Lizzie is forced to turn back because of her weak heart, but Franky and Doreen pose as nuns before Franky is shot dead by a police officer. |
| Karen Mary Travers | Peita Toppano – episodes 1–80 | Karen Travers is a middle-class school-teacher who stabbed her abusive, adulterous husband to death. She initially offers little defence for her actions, and receives a life sentence. In addition to the physical and mental abuse she refused to report, she returned from the abortion her husband forced her to have to find him in bed with another woman; her sentence is reduced to two years. Karen is reunited with her former boyfriend, prison doctor Greg Miller, but they grow apart. She has a day release to attend university, and has a brief relationship with lawyer Steve Wilson. Karen is paroled and befriended by prisoner-rights advocate Angela Jeffries (Jeanie Drynan), who puts her in charge of the series' first halfway house; Doreen Anderson is the first tenant. Greg declares his love for her, and they resume their relationship. Karen is shot by Pat O'Connell's son David, who believes that Greg was responsible for his mother's re-arrest and mistakenly shoots Karen. With Karen narrowly escaping death, Greg plans for them to start afresh in Queensland; he makes a brief appearance in episode 107, saying that Karen is recovering well and they are now married.[1] |
| Lynnette Jane "Lynn" Warner (Wonk) | Kerry Armstrong – episodes 1–44 | A young, naïve country girl who came to the city to work as a nanny, Lynn arrives at Wentworth proclaiming her innocence for kidnapping the baby in her care and burying him alive. She is introduced to the other inmates' attitude to child abuse when Bea Smith "accidentally" burns her hand with the steam press. Lynn is called "Wonk" by some of the other women, especially Doreen, because she is perceived as mentally unbalanced. The child's mother had buried the child alive, and Lynn is cleared. She elopes from her parents' farm with ex-convict Doug Parker, and is reluctantly involved with an armed hold-up in which Doug is killed. Lynn returns to Wentworth, and miscarries the baby conceived when she was raped as a nanny. She is part of the new work-release program, working during the day at a local garden centre for Syd Butterfield (Alan Rowe). Lynn becomes close to Syd's son Geoffrey (David Cameron), to Syd's chagrin. Doreen (who has developed a crush on Lynn) plants contraband letters on her, jeopardising her work release and parole. Lynn is kidnapped on her release day by thugs who confuse her with Monica Ferguson, who is released the same day and knows the whereabouts of some stolen loot. After being rescued by the police, she returns to her parents' farm. |
| Gladys Anne "Marilyn" Mason | Margaret Laurence – episodes 1–16 | The prison nymphomaniac, inside for soliciting and memorable for her assignations with electrician Eddie Cook (Richard Moir) on the prison roof. She moves in with Eddie, determined to get a decent job and go straight, but reluctantly turns back to prostitution; she breaks up with Eddie and returns to Wentworth. Bea sets Marilyn and Eddie straight, convincing Monica Ferguson to let them run her milk bar; Monica later sells them the shop. |
| Doreen May Anderson (later Burns) | Colette Mann – episodes 1–446 | A childish, easily-led but generally well-meaning prisoner who is briefly involved in a sexual relationship with Franky Doyle. Thumb-sucking, teddy-bear-clutching Doreen was a petty criminal, in and out of juvenile institutions, before ending up at Wentworth with a talent for forgery. After Franky's death, she became tough and butch (like Franky) before becoming close friends with Lizzie and Bea. She was released twice; after her first release she is arrested for stealing, and after her second release she steals Chrissie's baby from the hospital. Doreen marries Kevin Burns, but they divorce soon after she is raped during a work-release scheme. Suicidal after her divorce, she is the first victim of Joan Ferguson's "black-glove" body search. During Bea's escape, Doreen puts her up in Sydney.[2] |
| Elizabeth Josephine "Lizzie" Birdsworth | Sheila Florance – episodes 1–418 | An elderly, chain-smoking, alcoholic recidivist prisoner who provided much of the series' comic relief. At the beginning, Lizzie had already served twenty years in prison. A bush cook, she allegedly poisoned six sheep shearers who complained about her cooking; four died. It was later learned that someone else had added the fatal dose of poison to the food (she put in enough to make them sick); Lizzie is released, and receives compensation. Ill-equipped for the outside, she commits a series of crimes and returns to Wentworth. Josie and her daughter Marcia, looking for money, pretend to be Lizzie's family; although she knows that they are not, she wants to spend time with them. Marcia tells Lizzie that she was her daughter's best friend at the orphanage and Lizzie's (real) daughter died in a car crash. Marcia and Josie later go to the United States for Josie to have an operation. Lizzie, always wearing a red cardigan given to her by Erica Davidson, has several several heart attacks and is released to be with the Charltons (her real family).[3] |
| Beatrice Alice "Bea" Smith | Val Lehman – episodes 1–400),[4] | The first top dog (the unofficial leader of the prisoners), who rules H Block with an iron fist. Bea is initially imprisoned for strangling her husband's mistress, and shoots her cheating husband dead when she is released. Her teenage daughter, Debbie, (played by Lehman's daughter, Cassandra) died from a heroin overdose while Bea was in prison after her husband threw her out. Bea was hates drug pushers and child abusers, and tries to help a fellow inmate overcome her drug addiction. She and Chrissie Latham, enemies at first, become allies against Margo Gaffney. Bea is Joan Ferguson's first of three enemies. Any chance of her parole ends after she shoots and kills Nola Mckenzie in a hospital bed. Bea escapes three times, although the second escape is unplanned. She is transferred to Barnhurst, and dies in a fire there. |
| Jeanette Mary "Mum" Brooks | Mary Ward – episodes 1–204 | An elderly, dignified long-term inmate who works in the prison garden, loved and respected by prisoners and officers, "Mum" euthanised her terminally-ill husband and had served fifteen years at the start of the series. She helps accustom newcomers to Wentworth to prison routine. Mum is released, but has nowhere to live; after briefly living with her unwelcoming daughter, Lorraine Watkins (Anne Charleston), she shoplifts to get sent back to Wentworth. She is again released under the care of new parole officer Jean Vernon, who sets her up in a little flat with her pregnant granddaughter Judith-Ann (Kim Deacon). Mum is written out of the series, since Ward did not want to commit to an ongoing series. Mum and Judith-Ann return when they unwittingly become involved with the escaped Bea. Mum, in poor health, is working hard before Judith-Ann's imminent birth. Meg (who is visiting Mum) convinces Greg to tend to her, and he convinces Karen (now released) to stay with Mum and Judith-Ann until the child is born. Mum's estranged daughter (now played by Gabrielle Hartley) re-appears and, after seeing Judith-Ann's baby, asks Judith-Ann and Mum to live with her. After another brief stint at Wentworth for aiding Bea, she dies of a heart attack and leaves $20,000 to the prisoners.[5] |
| Rosie Hudson | Anne-Maree McDonald – episodes 2–73 | A young prisoner who is pregnant at the start of the series and gives birth during the riot in episodes 3–4. After giving birth, Rosie is moved to the maternity block. With her baby approaching his first birthday, she is in denial that he will be placed with foster parents. Rosie has a breakdown; during a security alert, she punches the pregnant Chrissie in the stomach (endangering Chrissie's baby) and is placed under psychiatric care. |
| Lorna Young | Barbara Jungwirth – episodes 2–692 | One of the longest-serving background characters, she appears regularly throughout the series. Her first speaking contribution is in episode 120, the first time she is called by name. |
| Tina Murray | Hazel Henley – episodes 2–692 | One of the background characters, but not always with this name; she is first called "Murray" in episode 206. |
| Christine Angela "Chrissie" Latham | Amanda Muggleton – episodes 3–338 | A lascivious sex worker who spends much of her time lamenting the fact that there were no men around, Chrissie kills Bill Jackson (Meg's husband) during the series' first riot. She returns in episode 65 after being in Barnhurst, where it is discovered that she became pregnant. Chrissie keeps the baby to avoid a bashing from Bea; her daughter, Elizabeth (named after Lizzie Birdsworth), becomes her main focus and she turns over a new leaf. Whilst trying to keep Elizabeth from being put into homes, Chrissie tries a number of stunts (including running away interstate with Elizabeth). When she returns to Wentworth, Joan Ferguson tells her that she will provide bad character references at a custody hearing. Chrissie lashes out, and is hospitalised by "the Freak's" first real bashing. First an enemy of Bea Smith, she becomes one of Bea's allies. Chrissie is eventually transferred back to Barnhurst.[6] |
| Helen Masters | Louise Pajo – episodes 8–10 | An international businesswoman, well-known in the media due to her cosmetics enterprise, who is remanded to Wentworth for killing a child in a hit-and-run. She denies all involvement and is found innocent, although it is revealed that she was driving while intoxicated. Her haughty attitude alienates staff and prisoners. She subsequently wins over many of the prisoners (including Bea), demanding better conditions and promising to campaign for them. In a television interview after she is released she turns on the prisoners, saying that they deserve what they get. |
| Monica "Monnie" Ferguson | Lesley Baker – episodes 15–60 | Imprisoned for bashing her husband Fred (Gary Files) and a friend of Bea Smith from another prison, she takes over as top dog after Bea escapes. Monica is paroled, and again bashes Fred when she learns that has was unfaithful to her. Meg Jackson defends her to Erica Davidson, who releases Monica to start afresh in another state. |
| Barbara Davidson | Sally Cahill – episodes 17–24 | The niece of governor Erica Davidson, admitted to Wentworth on drug charges, has a seemingly-innocent persona covering the fact that she is calculating and sly. She strikes up a partnership with Vera which includes framing Monica Ferguson for drug possession. Barbara is transferred to Barnhurst after Doreen's bullying pushes her to douse her cell in petrol and threaten to set herself alight, leading Erica to realise that it is unrealistic to have a close relative in Wentworth without the risk of special treatment or bullying. |
| Catherine Roberts | Margo McLennan – episodes 18–24 | A middle-class housewife who runs down and kills the man who raped her teenage daughter. After she is sentenced (striking up a friendship with), the character disappears and is said in episode 28 to have been moved to another block. |
| Phyllis Hunt | Reylene Pearce – episodes 21–460 | A background prisoner who takes on a larger role around the time of Bea Smith's departure from the series, turning nasty in the process. After Phyllis messes up Reb's drugs scheme at the Wentworth Fete, Reb bashes her with a wooden statue and inflicts brain damage. |
| Susan Rice | Briony Behets – episodes 25–29 | An emotionally-fragile woman sent to Wentworth for shoplifting. As Meg Jackson becomes concerned about her mental state, it becomes apparent that Susan is angry at pop star Jason Richards for taking her husband Fredrick away from her and destroying their marriage. Richards is actually Fredrick's stage name, and they are the same person. Susan invades a TV interview with "Richards" when she is released, throwing acid in his face before being taken to a secure psychiatric unit. |
| Martha Eaves | Kate Jason – episodes 29–64 | A dimwitted, burly prisoner who is ridiculed by the other women, but is hired muscle for wannabe top dogs or those needing physical back-up. Martha tries to befriend child murderer Bella Albrecht, who is loathed by the other women. After Martha overhears Bella saying that she thinks Martha is stupid, she drowns her in the shower block. She starts working for criminal mastermind Antonia McNally, who uses Martha's muscle to take over Bea's position while Bea is in solitary. |
| Noeline Burke | Jude Kuring – episodes 30–132 | The head of a family of petty criminals, usually inside for burglary and theft. An antagonist of Bea Smith and Monica Ferguson, Noeline refused to take anything she considered charity: "the Burkes don't take charity; we just take". When she returns to Wentworth, she blames the officers and does not understand that it was an accident. Noeline is later transferred to Barnhurst for her own safety. |
| Clara Goddard | Betty Lucas – episodes 30–39 | A genteel, flighty socialite who plans to start a halfway house for ex-prisoners, Clara is remanded to Wentworth for embezzlement. She influences the women, especially in the escaped Bea's absence. Clara is called "Madame Clara" and "Tinkerbell" by Bea when she returns. She is moved to a dedicated remand section at a prison with better facilities. |
| Kathleen Leach | Penny Stewart – episodes 30–149 | Originally a background prisoner (often uncredited), Kathleen shares a cell with Ros Coulson while Ros plans to escape with terrorist Janet Dominguez and unsuccessfully tries to talk her out of it. She is released and returns for a short sentence for prostitution, but has been planted by Tracey Morris' "boyfriend" Joe to ensure that Tracey will not testify against him. Tracey realises that Joe has been using her, and Kathleen is ordered to kill her. She goes to Bea for help, and Bea purposely scalds Kathleen's hand in the laundry steam press (sending her to hospital, unable to carry out the order). |
| Leanne Burke | Tracey-Jo Riley – episodes 33–121 | Noeline Burke's daughter, who has inherited her mother's criminal tendencies, is first seen visiting Noeline with her rather slow brother Col (Brian Granrott) and telling her about the problems they are facing without her. After Noeline's release, she and Leanne are caught trying to rob a building. Leanne is not charged but Noeline is again sent to Wentworth, and Leanne meets welfare officer Jean Vernon. Jean gives her the address of the apartment she shares with Meg and Leanne robs the place with Denny (Tony Mahood), a young man she has met. Jean remains determined to set Leanne on the straight and narrow, and convinces Meg to let her move in with them while they find her a steady job. Leanne abuses this trust (infuriating Meg), and Jean keeps convincing Meg to give Leanne one more chance until Leanne and Denny are caught trying to hold up a service station. Leanne later arrives at Wentworth, charged with petty larceny. She becomes fast friends with Judy, and helps arrange the riot demanding that murderous officer Jock Stewart be brought to justice. With the riot on the prison roof, Leanne falls to her death while trying to wave a banner for gathering media to see. |
| Irene Zervos | Maria Mercedes – episodes 38–40 | A young Greek woman admitted to Wentworth after being blackmailed into prostitution by a relative who is aware of her status as an illegal immigrant; her brother and his wife are also illegal immigrants. Irene does not speak English, and Karen (with only a smattering of basic Greek) tries to interpret for her. Upon her release, she is arrested by federal authorities at the prison gate due to her illegal status. |
| Joyce Martin | Judy Nunn – episodes 40–48 | The wife of an armed robber inside for being an accessory, and the only person who knows the location of the loot. After her husband tries to have her abducted from the prison grounds and forced to reveal the loot's location, Joyce makes a deal with Monica (who is due for release) to retrieve the stash in return for a cut. Heavies hired by Joyce's husband try to snatch Monica but mistakenly grab Lynn, who is released the same day. The loot is recovered when Jim Fletcher double-crosses Denise Crabtree to a hidden key, and Joyce is moved to D Block. |
| Denise "Blossom" Crabtree | Lynda Keane – episodes 43–48 | A tarty young woman, the girlfriend of Monica Ferguson's husband Fred, who is using him to get the loot from the robbery by Joyce Martin's husband. When she winds up in Wentworth, Monica is angry to find that she has been having an affair with Fred. When Denise is released, she tries to seduce Jim Fletcher into helping her get the key hidden in the prison; Jim double-crosses her, and hands the loot to the police. |
| Edith "Edie" Wharton | Colleen Clifford – episodes 44–49 | An elderly, kindly woman who becomes homeless with her partner, Horrie. Horrie dies after they spend a night sleeping rough; Edie is charged with vagrancy and vandalising the shelter which refused to take them in, and ends up in Wentworth. Deputy governor Jim Fletcher goes out of his way to see that she is comfortable and cared-for. Lizzie and Edie become fast friends, and they enjoy talking about the old days. Edie does not want to leave Wentworth for the shabby bedsit Jean Vernon has arranged and dies in her sleep the night before she is due for release, leaving Lizzie to contemplate the prospect of also dying in prison. With no relatives or estate to pay for Edie's funeral, Jim Fletcher quietly steps in to pay for the funeral out of the reward for recovering Joyce Martin's stolen loot. |
| Melinda Cross | Lulu Pinkus – episodes 47–58 | A devious young woman who is a student at Karen's university who tries to blackmail Tom (Hu Pryce), her lecturer with whom she has been having an affair. When Tom's wife finds out, she informs the police. After being caught receiving a pay-off, Melinda is arrested and sent to Wentworth to await trial. She is pregnant with Tom's child, and escapes conviction by convincing the judge that she was only acting out of desperation. After her release, she tells Greg that she perjured herself and plans to have an abortion. The newly released Karen briefly moves in with Melinda before Melinda has an abortion under Karen's name. |
| Bella Swan Albrecht | Liddy Clark – episodes 51–52 | A remorseless child-killer who had murdered her toddler daughter and arrives at Wentworth on remand. The officers try to keep her crime under wraps (knowing it will anger the other women, who despise people who harm children), but word soon leaks out after Bea dupes visiting psychologist Peter Clements into revealing why Bella is in Wentworth. Although Bella tries to befriend Karen, her only friend is the lonely Martha Eaves (who drowns her in a shower-block wash basin). |
| Antonia "Toni" McNally | Pat Bishop – episodes 57–64 | A cool, classy woman on remand for the murder of the woman who was having an affair with her husband, and who tries to buy the women's favour (and take over as top dog) while Bea Smith is in solitary confinement. Toni is married to the head of the local underworld, with friends in high places (pulling strings to have Jim Fletcher placed on leave to get him off her back), and governor Erica Davidson is pressured to give her special privileges. She starts smuggling contraband (including booze and drugs), and hires Martha Eaves as her muscle and lackey. When Bea is released from solitary, they briefly strike up an uneasy alliance until Bea learns that Toni has been smuggling drugs and they begin a power struggle. Erica is on temporary leave, and the other women begin to side with Bea against Vera Bennett and Jim Fletcher (now in charge of the prison). Toni is acquitted after thugs hired by her intimidate the only witness into making a false statement. Walking free from court, she is shot by Ros Coulson (daughter of the woman Toni killed) and dies. |
| Roslyn Louise "Ros" Coulson | Sigrid Thornton – episodes 63–92 | An idealistic young woman in her last year at convent school who claims to be a relative of Toni McNally, Ros is the daughter of the woman Toni murdered. She fatally shoots Toni when she is acquitted, seeing it as justified. Ros's attitude changes after she is sentenced, since she believes she has done nothing wrong. She orchestrates an escape, arranging a distraction which allows her to stow away in a visiting van. Ros seeks refuge at the newly-opened halfway house, but (despite Doreen's pleas) Karen turns her away; if they were found harbouring a fugitive, the project would be destroyed. Ros tries the brothel where her late mother worked, but when an associate of Toni tries to force her into prostitution, she flees and is soon captured. Back in Wentworth she is won over by terrorist Janet Dominguez, who plans to escape and offers to take Ros with her in return for Ros's help. The terrorist break-out fails; Ros saves Erica Davidson from being fatally shot, and escapes on her own. After a tip-off from Chrissie, she is re-captured. Ros (encouraged by Erica) begins to see that her attitude will not get her anywhere, and begins studying under the guidance of welfare officer Paul Reid. Erica has her moved to a quieter block with other studying prisoners. |
| Patricia Mary Theresa "Pat" O'Connell | Monica Maughan – episodes 65–110 | A level-headed, kindhearted middle-aged mother who is transferred from Barnhurst with Chrissie Latham, Pat is inside for aiding and abetting her criminal husband in an armed robbery. Forced to divorce her husband for a better chance of keeping her children, she is determined to keep out of trouble so that she might be paroled by Christmas and reunited with her son and daughter. Despite jeopardising her parole by meeting with her eldest son, David (who is also in prison and visiting Wentworth on a work party), Pat is paroled and reunited with her youngest children for Christmas. David escapes from prison around this time, which leads to a police shoot-out when he tries to visit her; Pat is returned to Wentworth because the police are convinced that she was in cahoots with David. David is convinced that Greg Miller informed the police, prompting him to shoot Greg and wounding Karen in error. Unable to cope in prison, David kills himself. Pat insists that Bea not attack the pregnant Chrissie and, with Doreen and Lizzie on release, becomes Bea's main sidekick. She is released when her sentence is reduced on appeal; on parole, she is last seen when Paul Reid drives her home with her kids. |
| Janet Rose Dominguez | Deidre Rubenstein – episodes 79–83 | A terrorist brought to Wentworth, awaiting extradition to the US to face charges in connection with the bombing of a South American official outside the UN building. In solitary because the officers do not want her interacting with (or influencing) the other women, she wins over Ros Coulson. Ros helps an escape, and is given sleep powder to drug the guards while armed terrorists break into the prison to free Janet. The break-out does not go according to plan, and Dominguez is shot and wounded trying to escape. |
| Caroline Margaret Simpson | Rosalind Speirs – episodes 89–114 | Arrives at the Halfway House with her fragile mother, Vivienne, who is seeking shelter from her abusive husband but is turned away. When her father threatens to kill her mother with a shotgun, Caroline fatally stabs him. She convinces Vivienne that they must say that intruders killed him, but their story is exposed and they end up in Wentworth awaiting trial. Jim Fletcher is interested in Caroline (reinforcing his nickname "Fletch the Letch"), but Caroline does not return his advances. Her estranged, possessive ex-husband Michael (Peter Ford) offers to pay bail, but she refuses to accept his terms; he sees Jim as coming between them. Jim also offers to pay bail but Caroline refuses, not wanting to be in his debt; when Vivienne's health worsens, she agrees. Caroline moves into the halfway house, and continues seeing Jim. They begin a romantic relationship, although Jim is breaking the terms of Caroline's bail. When Michael and Geoff Butler (Ray Meagher, who is bitter at Jim for turning him in to the police over a previous incident) join forces, Butler dupes Michael – who insists that he wants no-one badly hurt – into delivering a bomb to Jim's motel room; it kills Jim's wife and children. This strains Caroline and Jim's relationship, and he blames her for the explosion. When Vivienne and Caroline go to trial and are released on good-behaviour bonds, Caroline visits him one last time and they part on good terms. |
| Vivienne Anne Williams | Bernadette Gibson – episodes 89–114 | Caroline Simpson's mother, who is suffering at the hands of her abusive husband. After Caroline kills him in self-defence they arrive at Wentworth, where Vivienne's fragile health worsens. Lizzie (on release and visiting Bea) recognises Vivienne and Caroline from seeking shelter at the halfway house, supporting their claims of abuse, and Vivienne is released before trial. Vivienne attempts suicide, and is placed in a care home. Vivienne and Caroline come up for trial and their charges are reduced to manslaughter, allowing them to be freed on good-behaviour bonds. |
| Sharon Gilmour | Margot Knight – episodes 90–116 | A scheming, spoiled young woman who is imprisoned for drug dealing after a police raid where she was selling dope to a group of youths, including social worker Paul Reid's son, Tony (John Higginson)). As a drug dealer and a vindictive troublemaker, Sharon immediately becomes an enemy of Bea. Despite having a lover (Judy Bryant) on the outside, Sharon becomes involved in a romantic relationship with Chrissie Latham and they work together to become top dog(s) while Bea is in isolation. Jealous of the relationship, Judy gets herself arrested so she can be inside with Sharon; Sharon manipulates Judy, as she does everyone else. With Chrissie moved to maternity to be with her baby, Sharon starts a rumour that Kerry Vincent is a "lagger" (informant) when Kerry turns down her romantic advances. Judy finally becomes tired of Sharon's manipulative ways, and ends their relationship. When Sharon sees corrupt officer Jock Stewart (Tommy Dysart) blackmailing and physically attacking Doreen, she tries to strike a deal with him for protection in return for her silence. Soon afterwards, she is found at the bottom of a flight of stairs with her neck broken. Judy, Bea and Kerry are all suspects, but Jock murdered her. |
| Judith Francis "Judy" Bryant | Betty Bobbitt – episodes 91-534 | An American ex-pat lesbian who deliberately commits a crime to join her lover, Sharon Gilmour, in prison. Initially an agitator, Judy becomes one of Bea's allies. She runs Driscoll House, a halfway house for ex-criminals. Judy is sent back to Wentworth after helping a friend, Hazel Kent (who has a terminal brain tumour), kill herself. A "deputy top dog" to Bea and Myra, she is later released and becomes a successful songwriter. |
| Lilian "Lil" Stokes | Judith McLorinan – episodes 91–392, | The smaller one of Margo Gaffney's goons. Most of her appearances come without a speaking part. She is first seen in episode 91 briefly in the background with Margo Gaffney's bigger goon: Bev Covelli. Lil has her first big scene when she helps Margo and Bev give Sharon a "haircut". In her last appearance she dies when the prison is under quarantine, in deputy governor Colleen Powell's arms. |
| Margo Jane Gaffney | Jane Clifton – episodes 92–448 | One of a long line of agitators in the prison cell block who generally played rival to the reigning top-dog. Margo took charge of all gambling inside Wentworth and was usually accompanied by her stooges "Lil and Bev" (played by extras Judith McLorinan and Kaye Chadwick). Margo went back and forth during the series run from a good to bad guy, usually leaning toward the bad side. One of Margo's most heinous acts was the bashing of guard Meg Morris, who was temporarily a prisoner for contempt of court, and this earned her the combined wrath of Bea and Chrissie (who ironically saved Meg, despite her killing Meg's first husband, Bill Jackson), and avenged her bashing by tying her up and tarring and feathering her in the lavatory. Margo was also later bashed by Bea and Chrissie when it was discovered that she set the storeroom on fire with a Molotov cocktail at Wentworth, thus beginning the Great Fire at Wentworth, and lied about it to the cops. She later tries to frame Reb for attacking Myra Desmond but is found out and transferred to Blackmoor. Note: In the character's second appearance, in episode 93, her surname is given as Dempsey, not Gaffney. |
| Bernadette | Anne Phelan – episodes 94–95 | A dopey background prisoner who appears to be good mates with Top Dog Bea Smith. |
| Heather "Mouse" Trapp | Jentah Sobott – episodes 106*-326 | A rather timid young woman in and out for Wentworth for petty crime. She escapes and goes on the run with Judy Bryant after crawling through the tunnel during the pantomime. Later she returns to Wentworth and gets mixed up in the plans for the Great Fire where she perishes in the flames and burns to death. * – Note: although first credited in episode 106, Sobott had been appearing as an uncredited extra in the series for some time beforehand (first seen in Episode 67). The character – with no dialogue – is first referred to as "Mouse" in episode 100. it's revealed she dies in the Great Fire in episode 326/327 |
| Kerry Vincent | Penny Downie – episodes 112–124 | A young prisoner transferred to Wentworth to give her room to let her artistic talent flourish. Some of the women are sceptical of the special treatment that Kerry is given, such as being given a double cell to herself to give her room to do her paintings. Bea in particular does not take to her after she finds that Kerry's transfer was arranged by Ken Pearce (Tom Oliver), whom Bea has developed a crush on. As we learn more about Kerry, we hear that she is a former prostitute who is inside after violently attacking a client. Kerry's agent is David Austin (Rod Mullinar), a smarmy art dealer who is exploiting Kerry's status as a prisoner to drum up publicity and sell her work for huge profit. Kerry tries to get on with the other women, but they turn on her when malicious Sharon Gilmour starts spreading rumours of her being a "lagger" (informant) after Kerry turned down her romantic advances. During this period, Kerry also gives Vera a painting that she intends to destroy, only for Austin to concoct a story of Vera bribing it out of Kerry in order to give him more publicity, nearly costing Vera her job until Jock Stewart helps her set things straight with Austin; as a result, Austin is banned from visiting her at Wentworth. Kerry is given parole in episode 117 and set up in a small studio flat, but only on the proviso that she does not see Austin. Kerry is oblivious to his manipulating her and continues seeing him, and becomes jealous of other women he is seeing. This leads her to several drunken benders, the last of which results in her smashing David over the head with an ashtray, causing her to think she has killed him. She plans to flee the area; Helen Smart (see separate entry)'s pimp sells her some drugs to calm her down, but she takes them with alcohol, nearly killing her. When David finds her in this state, instead of calling for medical aid, he takes her paintings instead. Helen discovers Kerry and alerts Parole Officer Paul Reid just in time; after she is out of danger, he arranges that her parole not be cancelled if she agrees to be treated in a sanatorium. Kerry agrees to this, and it is the last time she is seen in the series. |
| Helen Pamela Smart | Caroline Gillmer – episodes 118–441 | A likeable, amusing prostitute frequently sent to Wentworth for soliciting who becomes a useful contact for the women on the outside. Became good friends with Judy Bryant. Helen was known to the prison as "The 'tart' with a heart." Attempted victim of the leather gloved killer, she also helps Judy a lot with Driscoll House. Her younger sister Sharon becomes involved with a cult so Helen kidnaps her and tries to de-program her. Sharon stabs and murders one man who was helping causing Helen to be admitted to Wentworth for kidnapping – her first offence other than prostitution. She later develops a tropical disease brought in by Glynis Ladd whilst Wentworth is under quarantine. She was sent to Barnhurst after her trial. She returns to Wentworth and her last episode sees her transferred to B Block after being part of a practical joke on Joan Ferguson and she is never seen again. |
| Gail Audery Summers | Susanne Haworth – episodes 124–133 | A harassed, downtrodden housewife who becomes Meg's new neighbour when Meg moves to a new apartment. Meg soon becomes concerned when she hears Gail's young children constantly crying and ferocious arguments between Gail and her short-tempered husband Tim (Jeremy Higgins); when Meg notices bruises on the children she believes that Tim is abusing them, but when after some debating she goes with Welfare Officer Paul Reid and the Police to intervene, Gail breaks down and confesses that it is her that has been abusing the children, driven to it being unable to cope being left with them all day with no help or support from Tim. She is sent to Wentworth on remand, where she instantly faces the anger of the other women when they find what she is in for, branding her a "baby basher". Eventually, a talk from Captain Barton (standing in for the departed Paul Reid) convinces her to stand up for herself; she gives an emotional speech to the other women telling them how she simply could not cope but loves her children, after which the women ease up on her. Gail goes to trial and is given a suspended sentence, on condition that she seek help. She moves away to join a support group. |
| Kay Frances White | Sandy Gore – episodes 127–145 | The sly administrator of Andrew Reynolds's clothing factory, where a work scheme has been arranged with Wentworth for some of the prisoners. Kay places several large bets with bookie Margo (and holds out on paying up the money she owes), and agreeing to help Judy make a dress for an escape attempt. With suspicion on her for a series of thefts from the factory, she sets up Noeline to take the blame to try to get Mr. Reynolds off of her back. Soon after, her long-running embezzlement of company funds to fund her compulsive gambling habit is uncovered when she "borrows" payroll money to place a large bet, in hope of making back the money she has taken from the company, but she is caught in the act, and sent to Wentworth awaiting trial. There, she tries to use her gambling addiction as a claim that she needs psychiatric help in order to escape charge, but having got on the wrong side of the women over the cancellation of the work program and her generally manipulative attitude, Bea orchestrates a scheme to expose that Kay is still willingly gambling; the plot is successful and Kay does not escape charge, returning to Wentworth as an inmate with a five-year sentence. From this point, Kay's manner only gets more extreme – she opens her own book to overtake Margo's, and using very heavy-handed methods to secure bets. This leads to Bea being sent to solitary after giving Kay a "bashing", and in Bea's absence, Kay makes a move to be Top Dog. Judy, with help from Lizzie and others, plans to put Kay's racket out of action by placing large bets that she can't possibly afford to cover. After this backfires, they record a dog race from the radio on Tracey Morris's tape recorder, place a huge bet with Kay (knowing the outcome) and doctor the newspaper's racing page accordingly, and play the tape back next day as if it were live. The scheme works, but when Kay "borrows" Tracey's tape recorder and realises she's been set up, she goes frantic and violently attacks Lizzie in her cell, nearly strangling her until Linda Jones smashes Kay over the head with a kettle jug to save Lizzie, leaving Kay unconscious and covered in blood. She later dies from a blood clot on the brain. Lizzie stows Linda away from the scene and insist that she herself must take the blame (for more on this, see Linda Jones's profile, below). |
| Linda Mary Jones | Elaine Cusick – episodes 140–150 | First introduced as an existing prisoner who is working as a runner for Margo's betting racket, Linda also has concerns when her son Danny (Darren Sole) is unhappy living with her overbearing, bullying sister while she is inside and runs away. Officer Fletcher later tracks down Danny and offers to take him in to live with him until Linda gets her parole; Danny's behaviour at first causes some trouble, but Jim soon licks him into shape and the pair form a close bond. Meanwhile, Kay White, starting her own more heavy-handed bookie racket, forces Linda into acting as runner for her, something that Linda reluctantly does. When the women try to put Kay out of action with a gambling con, Kay flips out at Lizzie and tries to strangle her in her cell; Linda arrives and smashes Kay over the head with a kettle jug, leaving Kay unconscious. Lizzie manages to stow Linda away before any officers arrive on the scene, and insists that she take the rap for it instead, both in return for Linda saving her life, and concerned about her being reunited with Danny. Linda wants to tell Erica what really happened, but Lizzie insists she keep quiet. Kay later dies, but Lizzie convinces the V.J. that she was behind Kay's injuries, allowing Linda to get her parole and be reunited with Danny, leaving to live in the new apartment that Danny and Jim have organised. However, a few episodes after Linda's departure, a jaded Doreen goes to Mrs. Davidson and tries to tell her the real circumstances of Kay's death. Erica sends Jim Fletcher to visit Linda and question her, but she convinces him that Lizzie's version is correct. She attends Lizzie's trial, where Lizzie – expecting an 18-month extension to her sentence for manslaughter – is given a heavy sentence. |
| Tracey Morris | Sue Devine – episodes 141–198 & (Michelle Thomas – episodes 463–464), | A young woman on remand accused of smuggling heroin into Australia but claims that she was set up by her gangster boyfriend. Tracey's father Bob becomes romantically involved and marries officer Meg Jackson. She returned in episode 463, landing herself on her ex-step mother and creating problems when she and her boyfriend held Meg hostage. |
| Hazel Jean Kent | Belinda Davey – episodes 142–399 Flashbacks in episode 534), | A background prisoner whose situation is eventually explored. A generally decent sort, later episodes show Hazel as being a depressed, drunken loser, turning to the bottle after her partner leaves her for another woman, taking their children with him. Hazel was suffering from a brain tumour and asked Judy Bryant to give her an overdose – leading to Judy's return to Wentworth for her final stint. |
| Sarah Forrest / Jacqueline Mary "Jacki" Nolan | Diane Craig – episodes 149–159 | A classy, sophisticated and well spoken woman that Jim meets at a party. They arrange to see more of each other, and, trying to impress her and not put her off about his job, Jim tells her that he works as a building contractor. Sarah is part-owner of an interior design business, and offers Jim a business deal, much to the disdain of Sarah's haughty partner, Julian (Peter Stratford). After Sarah and Jim spend the night together, Sarah finds Jim's Prison Officer jacket and flees, and when he visits her at the interior design business, she is very cold towards him and tells him that the relationship is over. At the same time, Erica is thinking of having some home decorating done, and Meg mentions that she has heard Jim has an interior design friend. Although Jim tries to put her off, Erica visits Sarah's business and seems to recognise her. Soon after, she realises that she is actually Jacki Nolan, who escaped from Barnhurst a few years previously, and is now using Sarah Forrest as an alias. Erica convinces Jim to try to persuade Jacki to turn herself in; Jim is unsure what to do and stalls, but Jacki turns herself in on her own accord. Sent to Wentworth, Sarah and Jim try to play down their relationship to both Erica and the other inmates. Jim joins Erica at a Prisoners Reform Group meeting, where the group comes up with a high-profile publicity campaign to get Jacki pardoned – insisting that she has self-rehabilitated and that her successful business proves this – amongst other propaganda. Julian has his own campaign to get Jacki pardoned, and warns Jim to keep away else it will ruin the whole petition. Jacki faces going back to Barnhurst, but she is loath to as she was molested by a bullying lesbian officer (who some fans have theorised may have been Joan Ferguson) during her previous sentence, hence her escape in the first place. With increasing media attention over the case, Jacki is just about to be transferred to Barnhurst when her pardon comes through. She leaves Wentworth, presumably to resume running the business with Julian, and never to see Jim again. |
| Myra June Desmond | Anne Phelan – episodes 154–552 | A former prisoner who had worked with the Prison Reform Group before arriving back at Wentworth after killing her husband and replacing Bea Smith as the show's second long-running "Top Dog". She was a thoughtful but strong woman who gave up her own life for the safety of the other hostages during The Ballinger Siege. Before the siege, Desmond organised a scheme to set up Joan Ferguson by bashing Lou Kelly and then framing Joan for the assault. The scheme worked until inmate Anita Selby revealed the truth to then-Governor Ann Reynolds. Reynolds then reinstated Ferguson and introduced a stricter security regime at the prison. She later confronted Desmond and told her that she would no longer recognise her as Top Dog. She also threatened Desmond with a transfer to Blackmoor if she caused any more trouble. |
| Anne Griffin | Rowena Wallace – episodes 160–167 | A seemingly meek, timid young woman sent to Wentworth for robbing a shopkeeper at knife-point. She insists that she is innocent, and the money found on her when she was arrested was loaned to her by her friend Megan; however, no trace (or even proof of existence) can be found of Megan and so with no alibi, Anne is to await trial. Soon after Anne's arrival, Bea is attacked from behind in the corridor, and it eventually emerges that Anne was responsible (not liking Bea's authority over the other inmates); Bea plans her revenge but Judy persuades her to hold off, convincing her that Anne is mentally unwell. Anne tries to convince the authorities that Megan has written to her, giving her the alibi she needs, but it turns out that Anne wrote the letter herself. As Erica realises that Anne needs psychiatric help, various details come to light about Anne's abusive upbringing, her imaginary friend Megan, and the baby she later had that died, also called Megan, which has left Anne in a very confused state. Anne is inside during the big tunnel escape plan of the end of the 1980 season; after the other woman realise Anne is unreliable, they try to cover up all proof of the escape plans, telling her it was merely a prank, in fear that she might inform the officers. Things come to a head during the escape attempt (episode 165); Judy, Mouse, Doreen and another inmate; Irene Nagel, make their escape, but Lizzie decides at the last minute to join Doreen, leading both down into the tunnels, and Bea after her trying to call her back. As the tunnels collapse, trapping Bea, Lizzie and the injured Doreen, Anne deliberately covers the cover to the tunnel (with a "grave" for Megan) to stop them from getting out, leaving them trapped in the collapsed tunnel for several days. Eventually Mouse is recaptured, and raises the alarm, leading the officers to rescue Bea and the others. Bea plans to kill Anne for what she did, but Dr. Weisman by this time certifies her to be mentally unbalanced, and she is led away to a psychiatric hospital before Bea can exact her revenge. |
| Irene Nagel | Heather Howard - episode 165 | An inmate who joins in on the escape from Wentworth at the last minute. She was mentioned by Judy as being in on the escape in episode 163, though her name was mentioned way before in episode 126 as one of the first of the women to attend the Reynolds clothing factory job. She didn't speak any lines and just followed the escape instructions with the other escapees. She was the one who inadvertently caused the tunnel collapse by slipping and grabbing hold of an old rickety support beam that couldn't hold her weight. The tunnel collapsed, killing her. It's implied that her body was dug out and in episode 167, Erica Davidson was on the phone to inform one of her relatives of her death. |
| Sandra "Sandy" Hamilton | Candy Raymond – episodes 173–180 | A new prisoner who arrives claiming to be inside for the first time after being caught driving with expired tax. However, Bea and others soon become suspicious as, for a supposed first timer, Sandra seems very familiar with prisoner etiquette, and asks a lot of questions, particularly around and concerning Judy. They suspect her to be an undercover police officer after information about Judy's recent escape and recapture. Suspicions are heightened even more when she convinces the Governor to move her into Judy's cell, and she even tries making seductive advances towards Judy; but after Bea and Judy put the heavy on her, she confesses that she is actually a newspaper journalist who deliberately got herself put inside to try to get the scoop on Judy's escape. When Evelyn Randall (see below profile) arrives in episode 175, Sandra offers to write an article about how Evelyn has been unjustly imprisoned in return for Evelyn getting information with her; when Bea and the women plant Evelyn's stolen file in Sandra's cell, Sandra is sent to isolation. When the prison is struck by an unidentified disease (episodes 177–179), and the isolation cells are needed to bed quarantined officers, Sandra is returned to the women, where she becomes very scared of becoming infected, after seeing her mother waste away some years earlier, and even tries to escape during a food pick-up, leaving Jim Fletcher threatening to shoot her if she does not return for fear of her infecting people outside the prison. With the mysterious disease "cured" in episode 179, Sandra finds herself framed for scarring Evelyn in a fire booby trap under Evelyn's bed, which will stop any chances of her imminent release; Sandra strikes up a deal with Bea, for Bea to prove she was innocent, in return for Sandra writing an exposé on poor prison conditions when she is released. However, after she is released in episode 180, she instead writes a story written around her and her time inside, neglecting to mention the conditions she promised to expose. |
| Evelyn Randall | Julia Blake – episodes 175–179 seen in recap of 180) | Referred to as 'Evie' only by Lizzie, she is an eccentric, middle-aged herbalist who arrives with other new prisoners Jennie Armstrong and Georgie Baxter (see separate profiles). She has been accused of manslaughter after poisoning one of her patients but insists that she is innocent and has a grudge against conventional medicine, insisting that everyone should see that herbal remedies are the true cure. Her haughty attitude soon gets Bea's back up, but most of the other prisoners take a liking to her, annoying Bea even more. When an under-the-weather Doreen asks Evelyn for a remedy, she falls ill, leading Bea to believe that Evelyn has poisoned her; but Evelyn finds that Doreen has mistakenly heated the remedy first, which has resulted in Doreen falling sick. Soon after, a mysterious bug breaks out in the prison; it is assumed to be a tropical disease brought in by Jenny Armstrong, who had just returned from overseas. As many prisoners and officers fall dangerously ill and Wentworth is quarantined, Evelyn insists that her herbal remedies could find a cure, as conventional doctors struggle to find the cause. The other prisoners even start to believe her, when one of her secretly brewed remedies begins to heal the very ill Meg; but it eventually emerges that Evelyn was behind the "disease", lacing people's food with enough special ingredients to cause them to fall sick, giving her the opportunity to "heal them" and prove herself. When the other women find out, Bea insists that they do not take action straight away, instead biding their time and making Evie nervous. A booby trap fire using turps placed under Evelyn's bed badly scalds her, seeing her led away to hospital in episode 179. She is not seen after this because Erica organised a transfer to Barnhurst for the day after, and although Bea was aware that the booby trap was placed, it was only designed that it would scare her. It is never fully revealed how Evie came to be so badly scalded, although is suggested that Bea did not authorise the incident. |
| Jennie Armstrong | Sally Cooper – episode 175 | A young, naïve prisoner brought to Wentworth at the same time as Georgie Baxter and Evie Randall, and emerges from the prison truck covered in blood and terrified after being attacked by Georgie. While in the prison hospital recovering, she explains to Lizzie that she is only in prison after not paying a minor traffic fine, thinking that prison sounded "fun". Lizzie scares her about prison life, leading Jennie to quickly decide to pay the fine and get out. However, very soon after prisoners and staff being to fall dangerously ill; it is suspected that Jennie might have been the cause, as she has just returned from Africa and might have brought a rare disease back with her. Jennie is only ever seen in episode 175; after her release, police try to find her to trace the "disease", until it is finally discovered that Evelyn Randall is behind the matter, lacing people's food with poison. |
| Georgina "Georgie" Baxter | Tracy Mann – episodes 175–186 | A violent, illiterate biker's moll who arrives in a prison van with Jennie Armstrong and Evelyn Randall in episode 175, and who has viciously attacked Armstrong during the journey. Georgie is immediately put in solitary and stays there after a series of volatile outbursts. Several inmates and staff alike compare her to Franky Doyle. Prison teacher David Andrews (Serge Lazareff) convinces Governor Davidson to let him see Georgie to try to get to the root of her behaviour, and suggests putting Georgie in with Judy, who can more than take care of herself, and Judy becomes Georgie's first real friend inside. During the mysterious "plague" that sweeps through the prison (176–178), Georgie stays at Judy's bedside and tends to her, but once the mystery disease has passed, Judy misinterprets Georgie's caring friendship and makes a pass at her, sending Georgie into a rage and seeing her sent to another stint in solitary (despite Judy's trying to explain to the Governor that it was her own mistake). Visiting Georgie in solitary once again, David realises that Georgie suffers from a severe hearing impediment, which has led her to misunderstand many things through life and believe people are laughing at her. Georgie soon undergoes an operation and her hearing remarkably improves. Once back at Wentworth, David suggests putting Georgie in with Bea (and Lizzie), which angers Doreen for being turfed out of her old cell, igniting a never-ending feud between the pair. Bea soon takes Georgie under her wing, but when Doreen is sent to solitary for a fight that Georgie instigated, Judy and Bea clash after Bea let Doreen take the blame. This leads to a big split between Judy and Bea, with various prisoners taking each side, and which Georgie, still furious at Judy's advances, works in the middle of to deliberately inflame even further. During this time, Georgie's mother Jeannie (see separate profile) also arrives at the prison for running a brothel, but Georgie wants nothing to do with her; while in David's classes, he begins teaching the illiterate Georgie how to read. By this time, Georgie's chance for parole is coming up, but David puts in a recommendation that she not yet be realised so that he can ensure she continues with her education. When the women discover this from Vera, they boycott David's classes, but a positive word to the V.J. from Meg, who has found Georgie a job, as well as David backing down his request so long as it is ensured Georgie continues her education outside, sees Georgie get her parole. Georgie leaves to live with biker friend "Mike the Bike" (Jon Geros), who had visited her inside several times, but finding the shabby flat a mess and that the bullying Mike only wants her for sex, Georgie storms out. After this bust up, Meg can't find her when she is due to take her to the first day of the new job working in a supermarket, and goes to the store to apologise to the manager, only to find that Georgie has turned up on her own accord and is happily hard at work, and seems to be making a real go of going straight and putting her problems behind her. |
| Jean Nancy "Jeannie" Baxter | Leila Hayes – episodes 180–183 | Georgie Baxter's mother, who had neglected and belittled her as a child. She first appears when visiting Georgie after her operation in episode 180, which results in an argument between the pair. The following episode, Jeannie is admitted to Wentworth for "living off immoral earnings" as a brothel madam. She immediately falls on the wrong side of Bea, who has taken Georgie under her wing and is determined to see that she gets an education and goes straight, and Georgie wants nothing to do with her. Before Jeannie is released, she tries to apologise to Georgie for her treatment, but Georgie doesn't want to know. However, just as Jeannie is leaving, Georgie convinces David Andrews to let her see her mother, and the pair part on amicable terms, with Georgie even calling her "Mum" for the first time. |
| Marie Winter | Maggie Millar – episodes 197–471 | A tough long-term prisoner who was Top Dog of country prison Barnhurst, specialising in pushing drugs. She escaped with help from Lou Kelly and The Freak by climbing over the fence in afternoon exercise and clinging onto a helicopter and flying away. We are told that a few days later she is captured and sent to Blackmoor. |
| Michelle Parks | Nina Landis – episodes 209–213 | An attractive young athlete with Olympic potential, Michelle is remanded to Wentworth charged with stealing from the office where she worked and once inside, literally runs rings around deputy governor Jim Fletcher. |
| Lori Young | Susannah Fowle – episodes 209–347 | A young girl who visits Wentworth searching for her biological mother who had given her up for adoption – Judy Bryant. Lori later deliberately gets herself imprisoned to spend more time getting to know her mother. |
| Dinah Walford | Trudy Simms – episodes 213–223, | A middle-aged woman who arrives with Kathy Hall (see below). She is imprisoned for soliciting and sentenced to two weeks imprisonment. She is sent over to D-block. While on cleaning duty in the hallways alone, she pulls an alarm in episode 215 to help keep the prison officers busy while an attack is made on prisoner Kathy Hall. Bea and Judy both suspect she was responsible for the attack after a briefly questioning her whereabouts during the incident, as she was around when Kathy was attacked. However, she is released on parole in episode 215 before Bea got the chance to question her some more. However Bea informs Kathy about the possible thought of Dinah being responsible for the attack as well as the other threats she's gotten before hand. Kathy would later inform this to her ex-husband Terry Harrison who works at the Wentworth prison, but still remains in denial on it as she doesn't know Dinah. In episode 216, Harrison confronts Walford after looking for her on the street who denies knowing anything about the attack. Instead, she would take him to see a male friend of hers who threatens to beat him up. As it would turn out however, she is indeed the one who attacked Kathy to keep her silent about something she knew about illegal business going on in a pawn shop she went to one night involving Dinah and her gangster friends. In episode 223, she and some of her gangster friends confront Terry Harrison to help them with some business. After one of them witness a conversation between him and Inspector Grace outside of Wentworth, this is looked at the wrong way and Terry is soon killed during a hit-and-run. |
| Kathy Hall | Sue Jones – episodes 213–220 | A woman imprisoned for theft who is heavily involved with the local underworld. She's also the ex-wife of prison officer Terry Harrison (Brian Hannan) who works at the prison during her time there. She also falls victim to harmful attempts by prisoner Dinah Walford (see above) which is unknown at first, to silence her for good on something she knows about illegal business that goes on at the pawn shop Dinah and her friends hang out at that Kathy went to visit one night. After Dinah's release on parole, Bea informs Kathy that she expects Dinah was responsible, and strangely after Dinah is released on parole, the harmful attempts stop, but Kathy still remains in denial on Dinah until Terry Harrison confronts her after being beaten up by Dinah's friends. Kathy admits to being in the pawn shop they hang out at, where she met a man named John who made some secretive business with them. Upon the time of her release, she tries to pull schemes around the prison to keep her from the possible danger on her life on the outside but is unsuccessful. In episode 220 unknowingly to her, Terry Harrison decided to set her up to have her killed as revenge for ending their relationship and losing his unborn child Kathy was pregnant with while having a relationship with another man who was abusive. Terry informs the pawn shop manager by phone (not knowing it's Harrison) on the date of Kathy's release. When she is released towards the end of the episode, she is run over by a hit-and-run driver and dies. Her body is discovered in episode 221 by a prison guard on duty and is taken away by an ambulance. |
| Alison Page | Fay Kelton – episodes 215–227 | A troubled suburban prisoner inside for shoplifting and unhappy at being locked up with "common criminals". She strikes out at some of the other women resulting in some conflict with them, most importantly bumping heads with Doreen. In episode 216 she tries to commit suicide by electrocuting herself but is found by Bea in time and taken to the prison hospital where she recovers. When she does, she is put into sharing a cell with Judy Bryant who isn't pleased. She is also given permission by the Governor to work in the reception area which angers the other women who feels she is being given "special treatment". Bea uses this as a way to get information in exchange for her protection from the other women. But Alison feels uncomfortable doing this and is requested a transfer to the isolation block to be by herself. In the meantime she faces family trouble with her 15-year-old son Chris acting out at school and running away from home temporarily unable to cope with her imprisonment. When her husband Don gets into an accident at work, their teenage son and 10-year-old daughter Susan are fostered by ex-prisoner Myra Desmond. On the day her children are taken care of by their father again who gets out of the hospital, Myra gives Alison some advice on how to cope with the other women in prison when she visits them a couple weeks before her release. This convinces Alison to transfer back to H block to reconcile with the other women and apologises for acting as though she was better than them and they forgive her. Afterwards she clashes in with a newly bitter prison officer Colleen Powell a few times, leading to an assault by Powell to which Alison strikes back at her. Powell presses assault charges, possibly causing Alison to have a longer stay at Wentworth. However Powell decides to drop the charges after the women decide to go on strike regarding the issue, much to Powell's dismay. Alison is then released. |
| Andrea Hennessy | Bethany Lee – episodes 228–236 | A student and political activist who is admitted to Wentworth after assaulting officer Colleen Powell during a demonstration outside the prison. She tries to fight for "true freedom" on the inside such as leaving messages written all over her cell and the rec room; causing her to quickly bump heads with the other women inside. To secure her release, two of her followers kidnap governor Erica Davidson and keep her tied up at their hideout. However, their hideout is discovered by the police who shoot one of the women, killing her. The other, Linda Golman (see below), is taken to Wentworth in episode 233. After her friend Linda commits suicide in her cell, Andrea is pressured by new incoming prisoner Sandy Edwards resulting in the two having a fight. She is later transferred to E block for her own protection. |
| Linda Golman | Mary Charleston – episodes 230–236 | An associate of Andrea Hennessy, who is remanded to Wentworth for her part in the kidnapping of governor Erica Davidson. She changes after being placed in solitary and ends up being very, very depressed. She was then found hanging in Andrea's cell, which is looked at as a suicide, but people wonder if Andrea actually hanged her, which she denies. |
| Sandy Edwards | Louise Le Nay – episodes 235–264 | A cocky gangster's moll, inside for murder. She briefly takes over as Top Dog whilst Bea Smith is away in hospital, inciting a riot with the help of Kate Peterson. During this riot she makes advances to officer Steve Faulkner, who is held hostage. After the riot, the two have an affair. She later disappears after a fixed 'meeting' with Kate Peterson at the rubbish bins, but when the girls are called in Kate returns instead of Sandy. Helen overhears Kate's charge: the murder of Sandy Edwards. |
| Kathryn Elaine "Kate" Peterson ("Doc") | Olivia Hamnett – episodes 235–273 | A former general physician who had poisoned her lover. A refined, intelligent and coolly self-reliant inmate, Kate was one of the few characters on the show that was a "good guy", who later turned "bad". Gently sitting on the fence whilst being involved with lagging to screws, lagging to cops, murder, trafficking drugs, fraud and bribery. Acted as though she was untouchable. She left Wentworth for a mental institution for the criminally insane after being given a death sentence from the rest of the women, realising she had burned all her bridges and succumbing to mental illness, which many of the women had predicted she would do, given that she was more educated than anyone else to fake it. |
| Susan Elaine "Susie" Driscoll | Jacqui Gordon – episodes 260–302| | A young girl who is admitted to Wentworth after she has escaped from all the juvenile institutions she has been placed in. She spent most of her time in Wentworth trying to escape. Due to her young age and innocent nature, she is taken under the collective maternal wing of most of the women, including the sarcastic guard, Colleen Powell. She is later released on her 17th birthday and eventually is led by Donna Mason into prostitution. She is the first resident of the halfway house run by Judy Bryant, which is later named 'Driscoll House'. She eventually moves to the country to live with Joanne Slater. |
| Jackie Louise Donahue | Catherine Lynch – episodes 261–290 | A young prostitute who is picked up by a middle-aged man named Ron Crosby in episode 261 and goes back with him to his motel in a taxi driven by prisoner Judy Bryant (now on parole) - who witnesses Crosby treating Jackie in a harsh manner during the ride. When they get to the motel, Jackie changes her mind going with him which leads to Judy fighting Crosby off who tries to take Jackie with him. During this, Jackie robs the wallet off of him taking all the money inside of it, and leaves the empty wallet in Judy's taxi. When Crosby goes to the police and press charges on both Judy and Jackie for assault and robbery, the police then arrive and search through the home Judy's been staying at and finds the empty wallet in her possession. This leads to Judy being sent back to Wentworth when she is suspected of assaulting and robbing Ron Crosby. Jackie later turns up in Wentworth for a two-week stay on remand on a soliciting charge in episode 280. Judy recognises her and is angry due to her being the cause of her being back in Wentworth. She clashes with the other women in particular Bea Smith who convinces her to tell the Governor the truth about the whole incident to let Judy off. When Jackie decides to write a written confession on what happened, she gets bashed by Doreen and Margo – angering Judy who feels Jackie wouldn't confess now. However Jackie does decides to sign a written confession on the whole incident and Judy is released from Wentworth. She is released from her remand in episode 283 but is seen again in episode 290 when prisoner Susie Driscoll is released and meets her on the street. Jackie takes her for dinner and introduces her to another prostitute Donna Mason. |
| Joanne Slater | Carole Yelland – episodes 273–302 | Imprisoned for parking violations, Susie Driscoll believes her to be her birth mother, however to stop Susie from escaping, the women let Susie believe it. Joanne offers for Susie to stay with her and her family out on their farm. |
| Carol Francis Lewis | Elizabeth Crosby– episodes 276–284 | A young woman imprisoned for shooting her husband Doug, who in turn was responsible for kidnapping prison officer Colleen Powell's daughter Jenny along with his friend Mel. While Jenny was held captive, Carol made sure she was well protected. While trying to contact her parents at their hideout to let them know she was alright, Doug catches her and beats her unconscious. After he rapes Jenny, Carol awakens and scratches Doug. In episode 279, Doug, Mel, and Carol flee from their hideout to stay at a hotel while the police were on to them taking Jenny with them. That night, Carol was fed up with Doug's actions and kills him, later telling Mel to take Jenny and dump her in the middle of nowhere for her protection. Jenny makes her way to the police station and is reunited with her parents. Carol is then sent to Wentworth for killing her husband. Despite saving her daughter, Powell finds her to be just as guilty as her husband by not acting against him sooner. Carol is mistreated by Powell who forces her to do massive chores while she is on remand. Powell goes as far as sabotaging Carol's work efforts on two occasions to turn the women against her; costing them their buy up privileges. This happens temporarily, but prisoner Margo Gaffney has always been convinced that Powell was behind sabotaging Carol and took every chance defending her. Soon, Carol convinces the other women to put the pieces together and they soon start to believe her. Bea confronts Powell who denies everything and threatens to put a charge on her. Carol receives a letter from Jenny who thanks her for helping her out which angers Powell who takes it from her and burns it to keep her from using at her upcoming trial. At the trial, Lewis pleads guilty and Jenny testifies at her trial and tells the truth about her helping her and Doug abusing Carol. Carol gets sentenced to three years which upsets Powell. For her own protection. Carol is transferred over to Barnhurst along with Margo Gaffney due to her gambling activities. |
| Faye Quinn | Anne Lucas – episodes 285–352 | A petty criminal inmate who attempts to take charge of all gambling at Wentworth and the first inmate to actively collude with corrupt officer Joan "The Freak" Ferguson. By episode 287 she's operating as the prison bookie, replacing Margo who's just been transferred to Barnhurst. She is then transferred to another block in episode 313 but makes a return in episode 340. She is pressured by Nola McKenzie to front for her insurance racket and provide cash for Nola's deals. She is released in episode 346 after Joan has forced her to lag on Nola's dealing, and goes to live with her mother, but can't keep away from her old racing friends. Her sister Glynis (Kirsty Child) forbids her to see her nephew Billy who soon turns out to really be her own son. After she gets involved with stealing VCRs from her job, she is caught and returns to Wentworth. She is last seen being reduced to tears after being transferred to C Block and reading a letter from her son, Billy. |
| Hannah Simpson | Julieanne Newbould – episodes 288–303 | A young woman on remand for armed robbery who becomes the first unwilling object of officer Joan "The Freak" Ferguson's Sapphic lust. While she is there, Joan repeatedly has her put in solitary to put pressure on her which makes her unable to take part in an escape planned for her by Duncan Campbell. She was transferred to Barnhurst after her court hearing. |
| Donna Mason | Arkie Whiteley – episodes 290–303 | A doomed heroin addict and prostitute who leads Susie Driscoll astray and manipulates her into joining prostitution. Bea Smith tries to help her get clean cold turkey, as she reminded of her own late daughter Debbie. She later dies in Bea's arms when she injected herself with spiked drugs. |
| Maxine Daniels | Lisa Crittenden – episodes 297–391 | A young biker frequently inside Wentworth for petty theft. She escaped with Lucy Ferguson but was shot dead by a security guard whilst on the run and trying to escape the scene of a robbery. |
| Barbara Fields | Susan Guerin – episodes 300–326) | A devious middle-class woman imprisoned after being caught with embezzled funds from the shoe factory where she worked. Barbara is the first Wentworth inmate to pose a threat to Joan Ferguson after she acquires the Freak's secret diaries full of incriminating evidence of the cold screw's dodgy dealings. During the Great Fire she tries to recover the diaries from Erica's office but collapses and dies. |
| Paddy Lawson | Anna Hruby – episodes 304–339 | A highly aggressive young woman imprisoned for assaulting a colleague after they got locked into a storage room together during an office party. It is eventually discovered that Paddy's violent behaviour is a result of claustrophobia. After this, she settles down and becomes a good friend of Bea Smith. After Paddy exposed escaped murderer Nola McKenzie's involvement in a bank robbery, McKenzie callously murdered Paddy by drowning, incurring Bea's wrath. |
| Penny Seymour | Joy Dunstan – episodes 307–309 | A young woman imprisoned for prostitution. After she was released, she fell victim of the Black Gloved Killer who broke her neck and left her dead in an alley. |
| Tina Lee Gibson | Debbie Cumming – episodes 310–311 | A young woman sentenced for seven days in Wentworth for prostitution. She arrives with returning prisoner Helen Smart and afterwards soon bumps heads with Joan Ferguson who lets her in on her dislike for prostitutes. Both she and Helen are released together where Tina then goes back on the streets. She then becomes the second victim of the Black Gloved Killer. |
| Sally Dempster | Liz Harris – episodes 313–320 | A neurotic, alcoholic middle-class housewife imprisoned trying to run down her neglectful husband after an argument in episode 316. Like Gail Summers, she too was given rough treatment by the other women after she revealed she abused her daughter Michelle. She attempts suicide in her cell but is saved by Colleen Powell. Colleen makes Sally's husband realise that his selfish behaviour provoked Sally's actions and in episode 320 he gets Sally released and they reconcile and she reunites with their daughter. |
| Jeannie Stanton | Rona McLeod – episodes 325–329 | A pregnant prisoner whose baby is delivered by Bea Smith and Chrissie Latham in a men's prison (as the men rioted). |
| Valerie Jacobs | Barbara Angell – episodes 330–332 | An old friend of Deputy Governor Colleen Powell having stolen goods for her boyfriend to sell in his shop. |
| Jean Carter/Nola McKenzie | Carole Skinner – episodes 331–369, | A double murderer who had escaped from death row in Western Australia. Possibly Bea Smith's deadliest rival. She is first introduced as Jean Carter, who takes refuge at Judy's halfway house, however she gets arrested for knocking a cop unconscious at the house, who was coming close to revealing her true identity. It was later revealed at Wentworth and why she faced a death penalty in Western Australia; for killing a cop there. She angered Bea after callously murdering Paddy Lawson by drowning her in a wash basin. Bea brands Nola with a soldering iron. She eventually tries to drive Bea insane with the aid of the Freak and Zara Moonbeam, until Bea eliminated her by shooting her with a Zip Gun. |
| Trixie Mann | Anna Mizza – episodes 311–340 | A young woman imprisoned for prostitution who becomes a brief offsider of Nola McKenzie. She was released. |
| Ruth Shaw | Mary Murphy – episodes 343–537 | A prisoner first seen showing hatred towards Nola McKenzie after Bea tells the prisoners that she had branded her in revenge of her killing Paddy. Shaw is later caught with some of Nola's stolen cigarettes taken from the storage room given to her by Faye Quinn who is trying to sell items to make money for her and Nola while operating an insurance scheme. After her appearances during the Nola McKenzie storyline, Shaw makes more frequent appearances on the show playing minor roles until episode 537. |
| Janice Young | Catherine Wilkin – episodes 344–352, | A proud suburban wife and mother imprisoned for refusing to pay a court fine. Her husband Chris (Roger Oakley) becomes involved with deputy governor Colleen Powell while she is inside. |
| Roxanne Bradshaw | Peppie D'Or – episodes 345–381 | A friend of Maxine Daniels who is the courier when Maxine, Nola and the Freak are smuggling goods into the prison. She is later admitted to Wentworth for receiving stolen goods and is pregnant after agreeing to a surrogacy arrangement with a middle-class couple. Once she gives birth, she is transferred to Barnhurst. |
| Jill Clark | Katy Brinson – episodes 348–353 | A departmental employee posing as an inmate in order to conduct a covert investigation of the prison. |
| Lainie Dobson | Marina Finlay – episodes 354–366 | A tattoo-covered shoplifter who turns to drugs while inside. She is admitted with 'Ellen' Farmer and the two are thought to be having a homosexual relationship, however it is discovered that 'Ellen' is really Allan. She tries to remove her tattoos by dipping her cut arms into caustic soda. She was released. |
| Allan "Ellen" Farmer | Michael Cormick – episodes 354–360, | A shy woman who is brought to Wentworth alongside Lainie Dobson. Lainie first refers to her as shy. Joan later finds Ellen and Lainie in bed together, Joan assumes it's a homosexual relationship. in the shower blocks Helen Smart discovers that Ellen is a man. He claims that the police had a mix-up and then just went with it. Meg discovers that Ellen is Allan after Maxine tries to seduce him. He is later released so the department does not face causing a mix-up like that. Judy later visits him to make sure he is still waiting for Lainie. |
| Diane Henley | Rhonda Cressey – episodes 355–361 | An illiterate prisoner whose plight highlights the lack of educational facilities at Wentworth. She is taught to read by the prison's new teacher John Maxwell who stays for a brief time period. |
| Denise Tyler | Geraldene Morrow – episodes 361–367 | A working-class single mother on remand for apparently killing one of her sons. It is later revealed by Judy she was covering for her other eight-year-old son and is therefore released. |
| Zara Moonbeam | Ilona Rodgers – episodes 362–370 | On remand for fraud. Zara claims to be a medium with "second sight" and becomes embroiled in a scheme by Joan Ferguson and Nola McKenzie to drive Bea Smith insane. She was released. |
| Tracey Belman | Alyson Best – episodes 368–372 | A paraplegic prisoner who poisoned her husband after a car crash which left her using a wheelchair. Joan is assigned special care of Tracey, but after learning Joan is a lesbian, she accuses her of attempting to kiss her when she is awoken from a nightmare. Joan Ferguson proved everyone wrong when she caused Tracy to reveal she could walk and did not need a wheelchair. She is sentenced to three years and transferred to Barnhurst. |
| Maggie May Kennedy (née Mullins) | Davina Whitehouse – episodes 371–376 | A geriatric drug mule convicted for smuggling heroin, who turns out to be an old friend of Lizzie Birdsworth. At first convinces the women she was carrying diamonds, however after her and Bea smuggle out a letter to the newspaper regarding imprisonment of older people, it is revealed that this was at least the third time but the first time she was caught. She applies for an extradition back to the USA where she believes her "press friends" will help her get a release. When she receives the extradition order, Ted Douglas informs her it is on condition that she carries out her full twenty-year sentence. |
| Carol Colsen | Merrin Canning – episodes 373–377 | The next-door neighbour of Joan Ferguson and an abused housewife who finally snaps and kills her husband as Joan enters the house. She holds her daughter Jill and Joan hostage. Once admitted to Wentworth, the women don't look favourably upon her for threatening her daughter. Joan takes Jill under her wing and brings her in to see her mother, but upon Jill's rejection, Carol hangs herself in her cell with her stockings. |
| Laura Gardiner/Brandy Carter | Roslyn Gentle – episodes 373–382 | Admitted to Wentworth as a surly, antagonistic prostitute named Brandy, officer Meg Morris recognises her as a meek librarian named Laura. After Laura tries to commit suicide in an attempt to get a rid of Brandy, a third personality emerges after recovery who calls herself Susan. However, it is not simply a case of a woman living a triple life as it soon becomes apparent that Laura/Brandy is schizophrenic. During a psychiatric examination, Laura manages to "get rid" of Brandy (though the whereabouts regarding "Susan" are never covered) and is sent off to a mental hospital. |
| Frances Harvey | Wanda Davidson – episodes 373–525 | A tough heavy who is introduced as a halfway house resident but ends up in Wentworth without an explanation in episode 384. She bashes Hannah Geldschmidt with Alice Jenkins in episode 453 and is responsible for killing Sarah Higgins later on, but the case gets closed and she is never charged with the murder. Her last appearance is as a punch-bag when Myra Desmond bashes Lou Kelly's heavies to isolate her. |
| Sandra Louise "Pixie" Mason | Judy McBurney – episodes 377–510 recap episode 534 | A flighty, romantic inmate initially admitted on bigamy charges. She applied for a job on the outside and still kept the job after the owners found out that she was a prisoner. Pixie was cruelly raped by Frank Burke, but her friends and Joan Ferguson helped set up evil screw, Len Murphy, for the rape. She never recovered from her ordeal with Frank and was transferred to Ingleside. |
| Gerri Doogan | Deborah Kennedy – episodes 381–382) | Brought to Wentworth on soliciting charges, but she is really a plant attempting to recover the photo of Lionel Fellowes paying a bribe. Bea tricks her into exposing her hand too soon by pretending to have hidden the photo in a lump of modelling clay. |
| Petra Roberts | Penny Maegraith– episodes 383–407 | A former teacher remanded to Wentworth for murdering her father. It is revealed he raped her and her younger sister. She was engaged to prison doctor Scott Collins. Once her sister is found dead, Petra reveals that she was actually not the murderer, but covered for her younger sister. Her storyline was basically a re-hash of the Karen Travers one from several years earlier. She was released. |
| Sharon Smart | Liddy Clark – episodes 383–388 | The younger sister of Helen Smart who becomes involved with a crooked religious cult. When Helen, Judy, a former cult member and deprogramming man lock her in the Driscoll House attic to help de-program her, she stabs and kills the man helping. She is charged and ultimately convicted of murder but is sentenced to probation due to being held against her will. |
| Lucy Ferguson | Yoni Prior – episodes 385–389 | The niece of officer Joan Ferguson who arrives inside on drug charges. She breaks into Joan's house, persuades her to let her stay while she looks for a job and to lend her money to buy new clothes for an interview. She buys drugs, which she and her boyfriend hide in Joan's house until they can deal them. Lucy is arrested for possession but comes in under the last name "Walker" to keep hidden her relationship with Joan, but uses this to blackmail her in the process so she'll do her favours. She manages to escape from Wentworth in a laundry truck along with Maxine Daniels with the help of Joan herself. |
| Glynis Ladd | Debbie Cumming – episodes 389–391 | A dealer and junkie who admits she has previously been inside Barnhurst. She develops the tropical disease Lassa fever causing Wentworth to be locked under quarantine. Shortly after, she dies. |
| Rosemary Kaye | Jodie Yemm – episodes 391–402 | A naïve country girl who comes to the city looking for work and has all of her money stolen. Wally then sends her to a boarding house where she is sexually harassed by Rod Miller, a supermarket manager and one of the residents of the boarding house; after she bashes him with an ashtray, he presses charges against her and she ends up in Wentworth on remand. After Wally manages to convince Rod to drop the charges against her, she is released and returns to the country to get married. |
| Sonia Elizabeth Stevens | Tina Bursill – episodes 394–447 | A cool vice queen who had operated a protection racket fleecing prostitutes whilst maintaining cover as a policeman's wife. Imprisoned for heroin trafficking and soon took over as Top Dog before Bea was sent to Barnhurst. Her position was taken over by Minnie Donovan for a short time while Judy and Helen ensured Sonia would not return to be Top Dog. She escaped and was last seen standing on a clifftop, but we later see bullets through the window of her car which might explain she was shot down by the criminal Renner or by her husband Eddie's people. |
| Randi Goodlove | Zoe Bertram – episodes 394–414 | A mercenary, high-class prostitute who crosses swords with officer Meg Morris when she tries to manipulate her son Marty (Andrew McKaige) into marriage as a cover for her prostitution. Randi fell victim to murderous officer David Bridges; she was killed and stashed high above the infrastructure in the boiler room which is never discovered by the staff or prisoners. |
| Cass Parker | Babs McMillan – episodes 401–460 Recap ep 534), | A gentle-natured farmer's daughter imprisoned for manslaughter. She is introduced when she is transferred from Barnhurst (where she was initially incarcerated) after killing an officer there. She is taken to Wentworth to finish her sentence and it soon becomes apparent that her docile demeanour hides a violent temper and a tendency to lose control. During her time, she decapitated murderous officer David Bridges with a garden spade when he tried to kill her. She subsequently became friends with both Minnie Donovan and Bobbie Mitchell. She was later transferred to a mental hospital after attempting to strangle officer Dennis Cruikshank when he caused Bobbie to miscarry her baby. |
| Louise Jane 'Lou' Kelly | Louise Siversen – episodes 404–616 | A vicious prison thug and perhaps the most violent agitator in H Block during the later years of the series. She starts out as a background prisoner making casual appearances before being put into the spotlight in episode 452. She led a riot in which she killed Eve Wilder, the Phantom Lagger, but was later killed while in solitary, being beaten to death with a glass bottle by Janet "Maggot" Williams. Lou escaped after the riot she caused by faking a murder attempt by cutting herself with a knife, setting up Rita Connors. While she escaped she was raped by Alice Jenkins's brother and killed him and his mother. |
| Minerva Edith "Minnie" Donovan | Wendy Playfair – episodes 405–437 | An elderly woman who had been a foster carer and had organised her charges into a team of shoplifters. Became the series' most unorthodox Top Dog. She is transferred to B Block after spending an 'escape day' with Bobbie Mitchell in a country town following the glee club singing competition. |
| Roberta "Bobbie" Mitchell | Maxine Klibingaitis – episodes 405–533 | A streetwise and rebellious youngster and punk imprisoned for shoplifting and assault. Accused of pushing Reb over the catwalk but cleared of the charge. Bobbie is eventually released in episode 513. She later returns for a special one-off appearance for Marlene's wedding in episode 533. |
| Brenda Hewitt | Carmen Warrington – episodes 408–416 | A talented forger working for the local underworld who is involved in a brief business partnership with Sonia Stevens while inside. |
| Belinda Margaret Johns | Jane Turner – episodes 414–428 | An embittered blind woman who gets herself imprisoned to take revenge on Sonia Stevens, whose protection racket partner left her blind after a bashing. She was transferred to another cell block and away from Sonia after an attempted bashing which involved a wrench. |
| Sarah Higgins - "Hangin' Higgins" | Nell Johnson – episodes 416–499 | Visiting Justice notorious for her tough attitude and the harsh sentences she gives out to the prisoners. Sarah gets a taste of life on the other side of the bars when she is remanded on corruption charges. Tried by the inmates and shunned. She is then found with her throat slit, which turns out to have been done by prisoner Frances Harvey. |
| Alice "Lurch" Jenkins | Lois Collinder – episodes 419–692 | A prisoner who, like many, graduated from a small non-speaking part into a more fleshed-out role. Alice makes her spotlight appearance in episode 448. Her character, initially a thug, later mellowed and became an ally of Rita Connors after the riot she took part in, realising Lou was no good for her and what she did was wrong. This was further consolidated after Lou killed Alice's brother and mother. Lou was also raped by Alice's brother while escaped. |
| Marge Briggs | Christine Best – episodes 419–534 | Transferred from D block by Joan to act as muscle for Sonia. She manages to goad Cass into a fight. Seen over a year later as a prisoner waiting for her parole decision and mentions Hazel to Judy. Despite her bitter comments, Alice tells us later she does get parole. |
| Rebecca Anne "Reb" Kean | Janet Andrewartha – episodes 422–589 | A tough inmate who played rival to Top Dog Myra Desmond. She was born into money, but rebelled against her wealthy family. She also pushed Joan Ferguson off the catwalk in self-defence and was also pushed off the catwalk by Marie Winter. She was transferred to Blackmoor after attacking Myra and assaulted Joan swearing to her that she will be back. She was returned to Wentworth later in the series, a changed character following electric shock treatment and a bashing from evil Blackmoor officer Cynthia Leech. She is released after she is cleared of the attack on Joyce Barry. |
| Mo Maguire | Bronwyn Gibbs – episodes 428–432 | Antagonistic remand prisoner protesting her innocence of a burglary charge. She was released along Camilla Wells. |
| Camilla Wells | Annette Andre – episodes 429–432 | A radio show hostess and journalist who arrives at Wentworth as a "celebrity" inmate for not paying a parking fine. She was released. |
| Meryl King | Marilyn Maguire– episodes 429–432 | A prostitute imprisoned for drug possession with links to the local underworld. She was released and later shot dead. |
| Gloria Payne | Tottie Goldsmith – episodes 430–445 | A trouble-making inmate and early antagonist of new Top Dog Myra Desmond, having been her husband's mistress on the outside. She was last seen suffering in hospital after having boiling water tipped on her by Phyllis, attempting to frame Myra. |
| Sarah Webster | Fiona Paul – episodes 433–441 | A young single mother who finds herself remanded to Wentworth after sheltering her old friend Reb Kean while she is on the run. She is later released when she was cleared of a murder charge. |
| Diana Hardy | Julia Gardner – episode 445 | A remand prisoner put into uniform by Meg due to her pill-induced amnesia. She is quickly transferred to another prison. |
| Rachel Millsom | Kim Trengove – episodes 450–472 | A young woman whose story began on the outside before she is sent to Wentworth. She is introduced as working at a goods shop with her elderly father and soon begins a relationship with officer Rick Manning. In episode 454 her father is hit and killed by a drunk driver named Trevor Priest. Priest tries to manipulate Rachel by offering her money and condolences in return for her not having him prosecuted. Rachel testifies against him but he manipulates the court and is found not guilty. After a final confrontation with Priest outside court, Rachel runs him over and kills him at the end of episode 457. She is remanded to Wentworth and is subsequently transferred to a prison farm in episode 472 after her trial to continue her sentence. |
| Hannah Geldschmidt | Agnieszka Perepeczko – episodes 451–456 | An East German Jewish concentration camp survivor and illegal immigrant who arrives at Wentworth awaiting extradition back to East Germany. She was eventually sent back to West Germany, with relatives of hers going through the immigration department in order to bring her back to Australia. |
| Leigh Templar | Virginia Hey – episodes 457–470 | A glamorous fashion model remanded to Wentworth after killing her manager, who had been blackmailing her with some porn films she had made at the start of her career. After Ann Reynolds is dismissed from the prison thanks to Joan Ferguson and scheming inmate Marie Winter, Templar uses her influence to get her reinstated, thanks in part to Ann saving her life during the riot started by Winter. As a result, Templar gets a two-year probation bond and leaves the prison with high gratitude from Ann. |
| Marlene "Rabbit" Warren (later Delaney) | Genevieve Lemon – episodes 461–534 | A juvenile prankster imprisoned for manslaughter after a practical joke of throwing stones at cars went tragically wrong. When new officer Heather Rogers is introduced to the women, Marlene realises that they went to the same school together and makes her a target for her practical jokes. Another joke intended for Marie Winter earns her first bashing, when she loosens Marie's bed so that it will collapse and finds her stash of drugs. Marie then forces Marlene to give her information on Heather and her family which she uses to blackmail Heather to smuggle drugs into the prison for her. Marlene starts running books on whatever comes to her mind, including Pixie's knowledge of the Bible and cockroach racing. Her father's gift of the Guinness Book of World Records gives her the idea to start a charity fundraising waltzing marathon to support deaf children. Marlene falls in love with and marries Matt Delaney (one of the Woodridge prisoners who had been transferred to Wentworth temporarily). After the ceremony Marlene is released and Matt is sent to a prison farm to serve the remainder of his sentence. |
| Dot Farrar | Alethea McGrath – episodes 462–486 | An elderly, hypochondriac prisoner who had served years inside. Generally regarded as a nuisance by the other women. After being poisoned by fellow prisoner Angela Adams, she was transferred to the prison farm. |
| Edna May Pearson | Vivean Gray – episodes 463–468 | A genteel woman imprisoned for trying to poison her second husband. Most UK viewers saw Edna arrive, do very little and then disappear. (Note: the episodes featuring Edna Pearson were edited to remove all her scenes after a woman who had been acquitted of a similar offence threatened to sue Grundy's, claiming similarities between the character and her own case. The complete storyline has been screened in certain subsequent international screenings but is missing from the SHOCK DVD box set release. However, recently all the Edna Pearson episodes have been re-released uncut on their own DVD set from SHOCK). Edna appeared all sweet and genteel, having hated being called a poisoner. She gets most of the women, and even officers, onside by convincing them she is innocent. She tells the women her first husband died by taking poison after dealing with illness, which she claims was suicide and the reason she was arrested for apparently attempting to poison her second husband which she swears she hasn't done. The women mostly still believe she is innocent and support Edna with her appeal to get her released, however when she lets something slip to Marlene which makes it clear she did indeed poison her husband she then tries to poison Marlene multiple times despite Marlene not even hearing what Edna had said. She also accidentally poisons Alice and Frances by lacing drink which was meant for Marlene. In episode 468 Meg Morris tells Edna her appeal has been successful and she is being released immediately with no further charges. Only once Edna has gone (ep 469) do Marlene and the others put together the pieces and realise Edna was indeed as guilty as hell. |
| Diedre Kean | Anne Charleston – episodes 464–492 | Reb Kean's estranged socialite mother, first seen when she tries to persuade Reb to see her father who is dying of multiple sclerosis. She visits Reb when she is hospitalised after a bashing from Marie Winter to tell her that her father has left all her money to her and she helps her escape, but worried that she might die without medical treatment she informs the police of her whereabouts and ends up in Wentworth with Reb. Whilst she is in Wentworth she is tortured by Frances, Alice and Lou but Reb refuses to help her and even joins in by salting her food and pushing her face into it. Myra eventually manages to persuade Reb to take notice of her mother after she is severely beaten by some of the women. Reb and Diedre reconcile just before someone mysteriously posts her bail and she is released. When Lou Kelly escapes, she seeks refuge with Diedre and holds her hostage in her house. Deidre manages to escape Lou and later visits Reb to tell her what happened. |
| Beverly "Bev The Beast" Baker | Maggie Dence – episodes 472–477 | An infamous serial killer, dubbed "The Beast" by the tabloids, who terrifies both staff and inmates alike as it transpires she hurts and kills people simply because it gives her a 'high'. After a reign of terror inside Wentworth (which includes cutting open Bobbie's hands with a razor and deliberately burning Judy Bryant with a soldering iron), she eventually kills new social worker Rob Summerton by stabbing him with a knitting needle. Soon after this, Bev commits suicide by injecting herself with an empty hypodermic needle in front of Judy Bryant and Ann Reynolds. |
| Angela "Angel" Adams | Kylie Foster – episodes 477–488 | A "sweet and innocent" young girl imprisoned for her involvement in her boyfriend's crimes signing fraudulent dole cheques. She turns out to be a vicious and manipulative monster. Whilst in Wentworth she takes an interest in the social worker Phil Cleary who was dating Meg and sets her up to be raped. Mrs Adams, her grandmother visits her in Wentworth to reveal her true colours to Mrs Reynolds and her suspicions that the fire in which Angela's parents were killed was started deliberately. She was ostracised by the women and had all of her hair chopped off after she poisoned fellow prisoner Dot Farrar. After stabbing The Freak and putting caustic soda in the women's shampoo bottles she was transferred to a psychiatric hospital. |
| Kath Deacon | Michele Sargent – episodes 481–557 | One of Lou Kelly's gang. Lures Myra to be set-up for the murder of Joan Ferguson, which is unsuccessful. |
| Kerryn Adele Davies | Jill Forster – episodes 485–495 | A white-collar fraudster who finds it hard to cope being in prison and separated from her husband. Hangs herself after going through "the change" and being rejected by her husband. |
| Samantha "Sam" Greenway | Robyn Gibbes – episodes 495–520 | A young arts student framed for drug possession. While she is in prison, she asks for her real parents to be traced and finds out that her real name is Julie Ann Cameron. After being denied permission to see her mother, she escapes from Wentworth to visit her and meets her sister Sally as well. Sally is happy to see Sam but her mother tells Sam that she wants nothing to do with her and orders her to leave. A heartbroken Sam promptly turns herself in and is taken back to Wentworth where Ann Reynolds admits that shortly after Sam's incarceration, she talked to her mother who said adamantly that she did not want to see Sam. Ann said she didn't tell Sam this because she thought Sally could convince her mother to come around. Sally later visits Sam to try to explain about why her mother rejected her and says she can still be her sister but Sam tells Sally that if she doesn't have a mother then she doesn't have a sister either. Shortly after this, Sam died when she was electrocuted by a wired door handle which had been set up for Myra by Lou Kelly and Alice Jenkins. |
| Matt Delaney | Peter Bensley – episodes 499–533 | One of a trio of male prisoners transferred to Wentworth for their own safety after they had foiled a mass break-out attempt. A softer touch than the other two male prisoners, he is suspected of being gay, however eventually falls in love and marries Marlene Warren. |
| Geoff Macrae | Leslie Dayman – episodes 500–556 | The unofficial Top Dog of the male inmates transferred from Woodridge men's prison. Becomes romantically involved with Top Dog Myra Desmond. He was last seen at Myra's funeral. |
| Francis Joseph "Frank" Burke | Trevor Kent – episodes 500–555 | The last of the male Woodridge inmates moved to Wentworth, Frank is a convicted rapist and all-round villain. Raped Pixie Mason. He escaped and eventually took his revenge on Dennis Cruikshank by shooting him, leaving him paralysed. |
| Yemil Bakarta | Maria Mercedes – episodes 504–516 | A Middle Eastern Islamic inmate charged with causing a car accident when attempting to escape from her brutal husband. Attacks Dennis Cruickshank, believing it to be Frank Burke, although Judy takes the blame. She is released on a bond, but later sends a letter to Ann telling her that Judy was innocent to pave the way for her release. |
| Alexis "Lexie" Patterson | Pepe Trevor – episodes 509–650 | A loud-mouth punk and card-shark, who spent her first few months in Boy George-style garb. (Note: With George's change in image and subsequent fall from favour occurring prior to Lexie's on-air debut in February 1985, these episodes already seemed dated at the time of first broadcast.) Meets her real mother inside for the first time, Jessie Windom. Suspected of being the Phantom lagger, Lexie escapes and is hunted down by the same killer of Nora Flynn. She is later released with Nancy McCormack and given a very social farewell from Rita, Alice and Lorelei. |
| Ethel May "Ettie" Parslow | Lois Ramsay – episodes 514–600) | A senile old dear who turns out to have been imprisoned since the Second World War due to a bureaucratic mix-up. Develops a close relationship with officer Meg Morris when it turns out that Ettie nursed her as a newborn baby in prison. After getting released and $250,000 compensation, she manages to get herself put back inside by accidentally shooting a police officer. Is released again, and decides to run a halfway house, where Ann Reynolds briefly works. She was last seen begging to be let into Wentworth to see Julie Egbert on her birthday. |
| Janice Mary Grant | Jenny Ludlam – episodes 514–528 | A sophisticated solicitor imprisoned for dangerous driving. It turns out that Janice is an alcoholic suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Lou Kelly quickly catches onto her alcoholism and supplies her with methylated spirits. Despite Myra and Ettie's attempts to sober her up, she manages to get alcohol from Lou, Alice and Frank. Janice takes an interest in Ettie's case and reveals to her that she has been imprisoned for 45 years without a trial and pushes for her to be compensated. Alice and Lexie force her to drink grain alcohol and she is sent to a psychiatric ward, where Ettie pays for her to receive the best possible treatment. |
| Sheila "Shelly" Brady | Colleen Hewett episodes 519–534) | A misfit remand inmate inside for heroin possession with a secret singing talent. The women struggle with her 'odour' initially. Found not guilty and released – but is seen on TV by Judy shortly after, having turned 'Pixie's Song' into a chart hit. Judy tries to sue her until they come to an agreement that she will write an album of songs for Sheila and join her on tour. Last seen driving off with Judy for stardom. Her version of 'Pixie's Song', is the only other piece of music ever to close an episode of the series. |
| Anita Selby | Diane Craig – episodes 526–536), | A Catholic nun imprisoned for causing a disturbance at a nuclear disarmament demonstration. Anita's overall goodness and willingness to seek such virtue in others brought about a brief moral chaos to Wentworth, its prisoners and staff. In particular she proved to be the perfect character foil for cellmate Lou Kelly and evil officer Joan Ferguson. She was released on bail and last seen having a heart to heart with Joan Ferguson. |
| Nora Flynn | Sonja Tallis – episodes 537–588) | A long-term, self-reformed prisoner transferred from Barnhurst. She acts as the new Top Dog after the death of Myra Desmond. She had served 23 years for her involvement in the thrill-kill murder of three hitch-hikers. Perhaps inspired by the situation of the Charles Manson gang members, despite appearing to be self-reformed Flynn is repeatedly denied parole. When she arrives she has already escaped once from prison, and in doing so managed to get herself pregnant, but a scuffle with Lou denies Nora her dream of becoming a mother. Later learns her mother has died, and with little left to live for, she executes a mysterious escape from prison. Later her murdered corpse is dumped outside the prison: it transpires that after her escape she had been hunted down and killed by an ex-policeman serial killer with a grudge against prisoners. |
| "Auntie" May Collins | Billie Hammerberg – episodes 537–587) | An earthy career criminal who was a famous cat burglar. Although getting on in years, May is a tough lady who watches out for the more vulnerable, younger prisoners. After her "escape", she works with a gang to rob an art gallery and after much disagreement she is shot in her chest. |
| Wilhelmina "Willie" Beecham | Kirsty Child – episodes 537–682 | May Collins' partner-in-crime. Willie was a fence on the outside and runs a bartering business in prison. Willie is something of a snob, and often antagonises the women with her supercilious attitude. When offered the opportunity of a full pardon, May and Willie worked with the police to try to expose a new criminal syndicate, when May was shot and killed, Willie made sure everyone at Wentworth knew and left the series feeling she no longer had anyone who cared for her. She returned for a surprising, one-off appearance later in the series as an employee which Joan goes to see for a job. |
| Julie "Chook" Egbert (later Ryan) | Jackie Woodburne – episodes 537–628), | A shy but highly intelligent young girl who had stolen from her workplace to help her terminally ill mother who later dies. She is transferred back to Barnhurst until her release so she can live with her new husband, Steve Ryan. |
| Daphne "Daffy" Graham | Debra Lawrance – episodes 537–590 | A garden-loving inmate who had been a juvenile offender before ending up in prison. It is later discovered that Daphne's crime and her subsequent self-harming in prison is linked to extreme PMT. Ben Fulbright, later to marry Pippa Reynolds, fought for her release on these grounds and she left Wentworth. Briefly was seen on TV making her case known to the public. Acts as 'PA' to Ruth Ballinger during her time in Wentworth. |
| Ruth Ballinger | Lindy Davies – episodes 538–552 | The shady wife of an international drugs baron remanded to Wentworth with special privileges in the hope that she will assist the Federal Police with their efforts to nail her husband's drug trade. One of the few prisoners to really ruffle the feathers of The Freak when she discovers among her crimes she was involved with child pornography. Ruth's time in the series climaxes in a three-episode-long terrorist siege when her husband sends a team of armed mercenaries to spring her from the prison. After the successful escape, she is caught at the airport and is transferred to Blackmoor. (Joan phones Cynthia Leach to have Ruth 'taken care of'). Seen as ruthless and cold, the only other prisoner to seemingly 'soften' Ruth up during her spell in Wentworth is Daphne Graham as Daphne acts as a sort of PA to Ruth and Ruth seems to genuinely hold some care for her; for instance, whilst giving free handouts to the fellow women, Daphne is given a whole cell full of plants in return for her work. |
| Jennifer Elise "Jenny" Hartley | Jenny Lovell – episodes 540–588 | A young woman on remand protesting her innocence of the murder of her wealthy grandmother. Initially introduced as a friend of Pippa Reynolds, she is also a professional piano player, who teaches Daphne Graham to play. Shortly after her arrival at Wentworth, a group of terrorists break into the prison to help Ruth Ballinger escape and torture her by putting an unloaded gun to her head and pulling the trigger. After she finds out that her lawyer is being paid off by her aunt to conceal evidence, she fires him and appoints a detective, Howard Simmons suggested by May Collins who investigates the case. Grows in strength and character through her time in the prison. She was released after her uncle was arrested for murdering her aunt and confessed to her grandmothers murder. She was last seen when she decides to leave Ann's house to look for a flat of her own. |
| Queenie Marshall | Marilyn Rodgers – episodes 556–573 | Sassy prostitute who later becomes a friend to the women on the outside when they need her help to ensure that Nikki Lennox does not end up in prison. Queenie also led to Andrew Fry's resignation as he was known as her "best" customer. |
| Nicole "Nikki" Lennox | Vicki Mathios – episodes 568–574 | The self-imposed leader of the juvenile delinquents sent to Wentworth to spend time with convicted criminals as part of a "scared straight" scheme. She became an enemy of Lexie Patterson when she cheated at a game of cards and they broke out in a fight. Nora, May & Willie teamed up with Queenie Marshall on the outside to make sure she would never return to the prison. |
| Cindy Moran | Robyn Frank – episodes 568–574 | Another juvenile offender sent to Wentworth to be "scared straight". Attacked May, discovered Daphne having hanged herself amongst other things that worked to ensure she would not return to prison. |
| Lisa Snell | Liza Bermingham - episodes 568–569 | Another juvenile offender sent to Wentworth to be "scared straight". Couldn't cope with life on the inside and asked Ann Reynolds to send her home. |
| Joanna "Jo" James | Nicole Dixon - episodes 568–569) | Another juvenile offender sent to Wentworth to be "scared straight". Forced to participate in the robbery of a pharmacy by Nikki and was caught by the police, whilst Nikki made her escape. Transferred to a young offenders' centre. |
| Eve Marie Wilder | Lynda Stoner – episodes 574–600 | A beautiful, but sinister socialite who arrives in Wentworth protesting her innocence at having shot the man she had been having an affair with, claiming she mistook him for a burglar. Her innocent act gains her enough popularity with the women to be asked to host a beauty/talent contest. After her first solicitor Adrian Forster tells her the police can't find any bullets where she claims to have shot Robin, Eve asks for another solicitor and gets appointed David Adams. Eve finds out from Pippa Reynolds that David's marriage has just broken up and a flashback occurs where we find out that Eve really shot Robin after he told her that their love affair was over. Eve starts manipulating David Adams by flirting with him and persuades him to go to her apartment and destroy any incriminating evidence. After she finds out that officer Joyce Barry has been listening in on their conversations she batters her unconscious with the door, drags her into a cell and bashes her with a kettle, letting Reb Kean take the blame. She tries to convince David to finish her off whilst she is in a coma but he can't go through with it and leaves a note for Ann Reynolds before shooting himself in front of Eve. A series of notes are later found around the prison informing the officers of the prisoners activity signed "the phantom lagger", and Eve joins forces with Lou Kelly to try to discover the identity of the phantom lagger. Eve starts trading information with Joan Ferguson. Unfortunately, Alice overhears one conversation between Eve and Joan in which Eve admits that she was the phantom lagger. As a result, Eve is killed by Lou Kelly by hanging during the riot of episode 600. |
| Rita "The Beater" Connors | Glenda Linscott – episodes 585–692 | A spirited bikie, nicknamed "Rita the Beater" who arrives inside for grievous bodily harm and becomes the show's third long-running Top Dog. She also brought down The Freak. Stepped down from Top Dog when she contracted terminal cancer. |
| Barbara "Barbie" Cox | Jayne Healey – episodes 586–602 | A daffy young woman whose vocabulary is limited to "Hi-de-hi!" and "Naughty, naughty!" As part of a running joke, it is never revealed why Barbie is in prison. She is released with Jesse Windom, but returns the following episode to throw tennis balls, filled with alcohol, to the women. |
| Nancy May McCormack | Julia Blake – episodes 589–650 | A demure, dignified housewife imprisoned for killing her abusive husband. In fact, Nancy is covering up for her son, who had accidentally killed his father during a fight. She is released alongside Lexie Patterson. |
| Jessie Windom | Pat Evison – episodes 589–620 | A no-nonsense, resourceful former brothel madam who deliberately gets herself imprisoned in order to search for the daughter she gave away years before – Lexie Patterson. She is released and later takes Lexie's son until Lexie is released. |
| Ida Brown | Paddy Burnet – episodes 592–691 | Rita Connors' formidable elderly auntie involved with her niece's biker gang. She is last seen visiting Rita in 691. |
| Fay Donnelly | Maud Clark – episodes 594–601 | Tall lanky prisoner, a crony of Lou Kelly's. |
| Rachel "Roach" Waters | Linda Hartley – episodes 595–643 | A young punk inside for armed robbery. "Roach" is the girlfriend of Rita Connors' brother Bongo (Shane Connor). She escaped while on work release. |
| Wendy Stone | Vivien Davies – episodes 598–601 | Short prisoner with wild hair (and teeth) supporting Lou Kelly together with Faye Donnelly during the riots. She is first seen in episode 598, and bashes Julie badly in episode 600, which results in Julie and Dr. Steve becoming involved when he gives her medical attention. When the riots ended Wendy and Faye got transferred to D Block and never returned. |
| Janet "Maggot" Williams | Christine Earle – episodes 599–639 | A second-rate prison thug who becomes an offsider to a number of the wannabe Top Dogs at Wentworth. She murdered Lou Kelly. She is later transferred to A Block following a bashing from Kath Maxwell. |
| Katherine Lorraine "Kath" Maxwell | Kate Hood – episodes 601–692 | A middle-class woman committed for killing her terminally ill, handicapped daughter. Initially brutalised by the other women, Kath toughens up and becomes Rita Connors' main rival for the Top Dog position. She is the last Top Dog of the series. |
| Vicki McPherson | Rebecca Dines – episodes 608–692 | A wisecracking inmate who becomes an ally to Kath Maxwell and "Spider" Simpson. |
| Lurlene "Lorelei" Wilkinson | Paula Duncan – episodes 623–677 | A vivacious con-woman imprisoned for posing as a policewoman. She was transferred to Ingleside Mental Institution after stabbing Ernest Craven, in which she became mentally unstable. |
| Merle "Loony" Jones | Rosanne Hull-Brown – episodes 625–692 | A mentally disabled, illiterate prisoner initially regarded as a figure of fun by the other women, but finds friendship from inmate Kath Maxwell. She escaped with Kath but was left behind after an injury and sent to a psychiatric hospital; was subsequently returned to Wentworth where Kath made several attempts to make up with her – they eventually reconciled in episode 691. |
| Margie Anson | Samantha Carter – episodes 645–691 | Prisoner beaten up by Kath and Vicki as part of Kath's bid to take over Top Dog. She backs off from helping Spider unload contraband when van is searched and keeps nit while Spike fixes up the playback of Lisa's tape of Rodney. |
| Rose "Spider" Simpson | Taya Straton – episodes 649–686 | A sneering career criminal who takes charge of all rackets and contraband trading at Wentworth. also became jealous of Spike Marsh. She was transferred to Barnhurst. |
| Lisa Marie Mullins | Nicki Paull/Terrie Waddell – episodes 651–692 | A young woman arrested for operating a prostitution and blackmail racket on the outside. (Note: Lisa was played by Nikki Paul for her first six episodes. When Paul suddenly became ill, the part was taken over by Terrie Waddell). |
| Wendy Glover | Julieanne Newbould – episodes 651–659), | An undercover policewoman whose real name is Tricia Haynes, sent into Wentworth to shadow endangered inmate Lisa Mullins and to gather information about her case. When the women find out Wendy receives a very nasty bashing and they write a tattoo on her forehead reading "cop." She is last seen visiting Lisa to tell her that her boyfriend Lester is dead. During her last appearance, it is revealed that Wendy Glover is an alias and her real name is Tricia Haynes. |
| Sarah West | Kylie Belling – episodes 658–668) | A fiery, impulsive Aboriginal inmate who suffers from abuse from racist prisoners, especially from Spider and Vicki who tie her up and paint her white, and to get back at the women, Sarah sets up a tripod releasing poisonous fumes of hydrochloric acid through the air conditioning. Rita eventually gets through to Sarah and Pamela manages to trace her foster parents, who tell Sarah the truth about her real parents, her mother has died and her father is a white alcoholic. She was transferred to Barnhurst for her own safety after Craven's threats to Pamela. |
| Michelle "Brumby" Tucker | Sheryl Munks – episodes 665–692) | A young prisoner first seen at Blackmoor prison. A misfit and a troublemaker. |
| Margaret "Spike" Marsh | Victoria Rowland – episodes 665–691) | "Brumby"'s best friend at Blackmoor who was framed for heroin trafficking. "Spike" was a university student studying the sciences before being imprisoned and has kept her middle-class background hidden from the other prisoners. She was released to be with her parents. |
| Billy Slocum | Glennan Fahey – episodes 668–684 | Blackmoor prisoner transferred to Wentworth after the fire there, and first seen when Merle tries to trade comics with him. Craven lets him and Stud Wilson into solitary to rape Lorelei, and when the women find out they were responsible, they are held hostage in a store room for some mental torture with a razor. He was transferred back to Blackmoor. |
| "Stud" Wilson | Peter Lindsay – episodes 668–684 | Male former Blackmoor inmate transferred to Wentworth after Blackmoor is burnt down following a riot. A convicted rapist and an underling of evil governor Ernest Craven. He was transferred back to Blackmoor. |
| Harry Grosvenor | Mike Bishop – episodes 679–692 | Former male Blackmoor prisoner moved to Wentworth, becoming a love interest for Alice Jenkins. He was transferred to Barnhurst in the last episode telling Alice that he loves her. |
| Helen Stephens | Anna McCrossin - episode 692), | The last prisoner of the series. Transferred from Barnhurst and was impressed by the way Kath handled Rodney Adams. |