Patricia Lovell

Patricia Anna "Pat" Lovell (née Parr), AM MBE (1929 – 26 January 2013) was an Australian film producer and actress, whose work within that country's film industry led her to receive the Raymond Longford Award in 2004 from the Australian Film Institute (AFI). Her productions include 1975's Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Gallipoli, which received an AFI Award in 1982 as Best Film.

Patricia Anna Parr says she was born in either Artarmon or Willoughby, the second child and first daughter of Luticia Evelyn née Forsythe and Harold George Parr. During her childhood, three of her siblings died, including one who was quite ill at birth and died at 18 months old, and her parents divorced. She attended Presbyterian Ladies' College, Armidale, but "didn't do well in the Leaving at all" and failed to get a university pass.

She began her career in radio at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) in the early 1950s, becoming a junior broadcaster in children's programs. That led to her joining the cast of the Argonauts Club. Despite the pressure of live television and having no formal training, she started making weekly appearances on ABC Children's TV, and in 1960 began her most fondly-remembered role as 'Miss Pat' in ABC TV's children's television program Mr. Squiggle.

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