Sarah Kemp

Sarah Kemp (born Gypsie Mary Kemp, 24 February 1937 – 9 January 2015) was an Australian-born actress, who started her acting career in the United Kingdom, she was best known for starring in the Australian soap opera Sons and Daughters, playing the character of Charlie Bartlett, from 1982 to 1987.

Kemp, who was born as Gypsie Mary Kemp on 24 February 1937 in Melbourne, Victoria and started her career in the United Kingdom, with credits including the film A Touch of the Other (1970), two episodes of the Doctor Who story Day of the Daleks (1972), and a 1972 episode of The Benny Hill Show. She was in the series Shoestring, which appeared on BBC television between 1979 and 1980, playing an Australian hitchhiker.

She then returned to her native Australia and starred in Sons and Daughters. She appeared in A Sporting Chance in 1981. Her last credited role was in the TV movie Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 in 1993. She retired from acting and worked as an English teacher.

In 1998 Kemp entered politics running for the seat of Bennelong in the 1998 Australian federal election on the Unity Party ticket and then later ran New South Wales Legislative Council in 1999 also on the Unity ticket.

In the Sons and Daughters DVD of cast interview's in 2007, hosted by co-star Tom Richards, Kemp revealed that she owned and worked in an Art Gallery.

Kemp died at Bellingen Hospital in New South Wales on 9 January 2015, due to lung cancer, aged 77.