Rowena Wallace

Biography

Rowena Wallace (born August 23, 1947) is an English-born Australian stage and screen actress, most especially in the genre of television soap opera. She is best known for her Gold Logie-winning role as conniving Patricia "Pat the Rat" Hamilton/Morrell/Palmer in Sons and Daughters, being the first soap star to win the Gold Logie. Rowena Wallace was born England, as an only child. She moved to Australia with her parents when she was five, settling in the state of Queensland. 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.

Known For

Mission: Impossible

as Major Natalia Zorbuskaya

Home and Away

as June Reynolds

McCloud

Puberty Blues

as Mrs. Knight

The Flying Doctors

as Pauline Giglia QC

Strike of the Panther

as Sgt Lucy Andrews

All Saints

as Katrina Ford

Water Rats

as Dolly Munro

Sons and Daughters

as Patricia Hamilton

Sons and Daughters

as Patricia Morrell