Rowena Wallace

Rowena Wallace
Rowena Wallace & Kristylee Waine
Born	(1947-08-23) 23 August 1947 (age 69) Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Occupation	Television actor
Years active	1967–current
Spouse(s)	George Assang (1973–74; divorced)

Rowena Wallace (born 23 August 1947) is an English-born Australian actress, most especially in the genre of soap opera. She is best known for her Gold Logie-winning role as Patricia "Pat The Rat" Hamilton/Morrell/Palmer in Sons and Daughters

Rowena Wallace was born in Coventry, West Midlands, an only child. She moved to Australia with her parents when she was five. Initially she grew up in Cairns and later moved to Brisbane at the age of 12 years. There, she attended Kedron State High School and was taken by her mother to dancing lessons at, and also persuaded to join, the Twelfth Night Theatre under the artistic direction of Joan Whalley in Bowen Hills. Her father was a pilot for Ansett Airlines.

At age fifteen, having left school and attended a business college at the insistence of her parents, Wallace decided to become an actress. She joined an advertising agency while still performing in the theatre at night. Her first television role was in Brisbane as an entertainer on the variety show Theatre Royal (hosted by George Wallace, Jr., no relation). She also hosted the afternoon news and weather and a children's show. At the age of nineteen, Wallace was diagnosed with scoliosis (curvature of the spine). She has required painkillers almost continuously since then.

While Wallace was working in television in Brisbane, Barry Creyton persuaded the producers of a new series to fly her down to Sydney to audition for the lead role in their show; as a result Wallace won the role of Margie Harris in You Can't See 'Round Corners and moved to Sydney.