Australian journalist, television presenter and screenwriter
Born (1960-07-02) 2 July 1960 (age65)
Melbourne, Australia
OccupationsJournalist, television presenter, screenwriter
Sheridan Jobbins
Jobbins at the premiere of Easy Virtue in Canada, 2008
Born
(1960-07-02) 2 July 1960 (age65)
Melbourne, Australia
Occupations
Journalist, television presenter, screenwriter
Sheridan Jobbins (born 2 July 1960[citation needed]) is an Australian journalist, television presenter and screenwriter.
Jobbins was born in Melbourne, Australia. She was educated at Ascham School in Sydney. She is a third generation Australian film maker, whose family includes: grandfather, Cinesound cinematographer George Malcolm;[1] parents, advertising executives Harry & Joy Jobbins; sister, comedian/writer Saturday Rosenberg; and uncle, sound recordist Ken Malcolm.[citation needed] At the age of 9, she presented a televisions series called Cooking with Sheri on ATN 7. The show ran from 1967 – 1969. She was later credited by Guinness World Records as being the world's youngest television host. A record that stood until 2006.[2]
In the late 1970s, she had a brief career as an actor in Australian soap operas, making a featured appearance in Glenview High,[3] and smaller roles in The Restless Years and The Young Doctors. From 1981 – 1984 Sheridan was a reporter on the multi-award-winning children's television programme, Simon Townsend's Wonder World! (screened on Network 10.) Other on screen television credits include being a reporter on State of the Arts (later, Billboard) on the ABC, and Good Morning Australia – Network 10.
In 1994, she hosted a 13×1 hour television series, House of Fun, also for Network 10.[4] Jobbins is a member of both the Australian and American Writers Guilds.
She writes full-time with Australian film director/writer, Stephan Elliott. Their most recent credit is the feature film Easy Virtue, starring Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jessica Biel and Ben Barnes. Based on a stage play of the same name by Noël Coward, Easy Virtue premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and has screened at the Rome and London film festivals to great acclaim.[5]
From 1985 – 86, Jobbins joined friend, Amanda Keller, to produce music videos for Australian bands including; Mental As Anything (Live It Up), Mondo Rock (Modern Bop), and Cold Chisel (Flame Trees). She appears in audience of the Live It Up music video.[7]
She also wrote, produced and directed several short films, two of which Machinations (1987) won a bronze medal at the New York Film & Television Festival, and I Am Time was a finalist in the Dendy Awards, which opened the Sydney Film Festival in 1993.[citation needed]
From 1993 until 2000, she was a director of Rebel Penfold-Russell's company, Latent Image Productions.[8] She was in charge of research and development of the company's on-going production slate. In that time, Latent Image produced the multi award-winning feature films, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Paws and WillFull.[9]
