Anne Phelan

Anne Mary Phelan, OAM (born 2 August 1944), is a much awarded Australian actress, who has appeared prominently in Theatre, Australian television productions and soap operas, including Prisoner where she played the role of 'Top Dog' Myra Desmond and Monica Taylor in Something in the air. She is the winner of two AFI Television Awards. Phelan had an on-going role in soap opera Bellbird in the early 1970s. In the late 1970s she played guest roles in Prisoner. She took the role of a prison officer (Officer Manson), appearing in one episode of the series in 1979. This character had the sole purpose of threatening to resign over the favourable treatment afforded to prisoner Barbara Davidson in episode 17. Later in 1979 she reappeared in the...