Saskia Post
Acting
Biography
Saskia Post (1 August 1960 - 16 March 2020) was a US-born Australian actress and best known for her leading role in the 1986 film Dogs in Space. Saskia Post's Dutch parents moved between America and Japan, before settling in Australia in 1975. Post then commenced a degree course in drama and arts at the University of New South Wales but gave it up after 12 months to attend a full-time course at the Drama Studio in 1981. Shortly after completing the course she obtained her first television role as Julianna Sleven, a Dutch refugee, in The Sullivans. Post died from complications due to a congenital heart issue, at aged 59, at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Known For
The Sullivans is an Australian drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran on the Nine Network from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives. It was a consistent ratings success in Australia, and also became popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Gibraltar and New Zealand.
The Sullivans
Eugénie Sandler P.I. is a 13-part Australian children's series that first aired on ABC1 in 2000. The series stars Xaris Miller as the title character. The show now airs on ABC3 in an afternoon time slot.
Eugenie Sandler P.I.
Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.
Proof
The place is Melbourne, Australia 1978. The punk phenomenon is sweeping the country and Dogs In Space, a punk group, are part of it. In a squat, in a dodgy suburb, live a ragtag collection of outcasts and don't-wanna-bes who survive on a diet of old TV space films, drugs and good music. And the satellite SKYLAB could crash through their roof at any moment...
Dogs in Space
In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.
One Night Stand
A man accompanies his lover on a journey, neglecting to mention that an angry drug dealer is in hot pursuit.
True Love and Chaos
An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.
Bliss
The year in 1984. A self styled back street career criminal in the exploding world of video production begins to take over the streets with his gang of punks. On the case cops, Davidson and Reynolds discover an intricate underground world of queer punks, gender benders, and an ex Top Dog prisoner with a secret.
Throbbin' 84
Three versions of a woman – bride to be (virgin), dominatrix (whore), and actress playing Joan of Arc (saint) – are shown. Each is dissatisfied with her place in the world.