Abigail (actress)
| Abigail | |
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| Born |
Abigail Rogan 23 July 1946 London, England |
| Years active | 1968–1994, 2003 |
Abigail Rogan (born 23 July 1946, in London, England), known mononymously as Abigail, is a retired English television character actress who emigrated to Australia in 1968 and became one of Australia's significant sex symbols of the mid-1970s. She was educated in France. Her mother (maiden name Joachim) was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) of Dutch Burgher/Eurasian ethnicity. Abigail came to Australia when she was given the chance to appear as the female lead in the Perth productionThere's a Girl in my Soup.
Rogan is best known for her roles in two prominent Australian soap operas, where she became known simply as Abigail, she first became best known to Australians as a sex symbol, in the television soap opera Number 96, as the first actress to play Bev Houghton and then for her role as conniving Caroline Morrell in Sons and Daughters.
Abigail began in show business in the UK, appearing in the TV shows Robin Hood and Continental Theatre. After arriving in Australia in 1971, she studied civil engineering at university and acted on the side, gaining the female lead in a theatrical production of the comedy There's a Girl in My Soup on stage in Perth, Western Australia. She moved to Sydney, New South Wales and appeared in a television advertisement with Phil Silvers and the TV series Delta.
From 1972 to mid-1973, Abigail appeared in the Network Ten sexed-up soap opera, Number 96 as Bev Houghton. She was promoted as a sex symbol and she became "Australia's undisputed number 1 female sex symbol in the early 1970s" through her role, which provided fleeting nude glimpses. As the show's most famous sex symbol many people assume that Abigail was the first woman to appear topless on Australian television; however, that credit belongs to fellow cast member Vivienne Garrett in the same series. To the surprise of her television fans, Abigail left the cast of Number 96 in mid-1973, and her character of Bev Houghton went to Victoria Raymond (a.k.a. Victoria Resch), real life sister of Candy Raymond who had been written into the series shortly before Abigail's departure and also presented as a sex symbol.
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