Jackie Woodburne

In 2014 she became the lead in Night Terrace, a narrative comedy audio series in which she told TVTonight she plays "basically a female Doctor Who". The series was produced by Splendid Chaps Productions, with the first season released at the end of 2014. It won the Convenors' Award for Excellence in the 2014 Aurealis Awards. A second season was released in February 2016, also starring Woodburne. Both seasons have been licensed for broadcast, with the first commencing on BBC Radio 4 Extra on Sunday April 21, 2019 as part of The 7th Dimension programming block.

Woodburne appeared in a documentary special celebrating Neighbours' 30th anniversary titled Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which aired in Australia and the UK in March 2015.

In 2005, she was nominated for the Best Female Performance in a Soap Opera award at the international Rose d'Or television festival, but was beaten by fellow British actress Lesley-Anne Down.

Woodburne is best known for two long-running soap opera roles. The first was Julie "Chook" Egbert in Prisoner, a role she played from 1985 to 1986. A poem read by Julie in episode 582 of Prisoner was penned by Woodburne herself. This was followed by the role of Susan Kennedy in Neighbours, a role she has played since 1994.

Woodburne previously played the sister of Alan Fletcher's character in Cop Shop in 1982–1983, before they were cast as husband and wife Karl and Susan in Neighbours.

Alongside future Neighbours castmate Janet Andrewartha, Woodburne attended the National Theatre Drama School and graduated in 1980. Woodburne played Josie in the television miniseries Outbreak of Love. Woodburne starred in the ABC Film 1915 as Dianne, alongside Sigrid Thornton, Scott McGregor and Scott Burgess. Woodburne said the fighting is not the only focus of the miniseries, as it shows how the lives of the women were also affected by World War I. In 1990, she auditioned for the role of Pippa Fletcher in Home and Away, but lost out to Debra Lawrance.

Other soap opera roles include a brief appearance in the very first episode of Sons and Daughters (playing Patricia Dunne in flashbacks), a couple of episodes of A Country Practice, and a larger role in The Young Doctors where she played Nurse Maggie Gordon from 1980 to 1981.

Jacqueline Anne Woodburne (born 5 February 1956) is a Northern Irish-born actress, who is notable for her career on Australian television, and who is best known for her role of Susan Kennedy in Neighbours (a role she has played for 25 years) and her previous TV soap opera roles in The Young Doctors, Cop Shop, Sons and Daughters and Prisoner As of 2020, Along with Neighbours co-star Alan Fletcher she is the third Third longest-serving television soap opera actor in Australia, after Home and Away stars Ray Meagher and Lynne McGranger.