Wendy Strehlow

Wendy Strehlow (c. 1958) is an Australian television and theatre actress, best known for her role as Judy Loveday in A Country Practice.

Strehlow has appeared in numerous television series. She played much-loved nurse sister Judy Loveday in the soap opera A Country Practice from 1981 to 1986 for 217 episodes. The role won her a Logie Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1985. From mid-2005 to 2008, she played the role of paramedic Lorraine Tanner in the Seven Network medical drama All Saints.

Her other TV credits include E Street, Blue Heelers, McLeod's Daughters, Home and Away, A Step in the Right Direction and The Saddle Club.

Strehlow has also appeared in numerous theatre productions, including The Greening of Grace, Henry IV, The Memory of Water, Travesties and the Pulitzer Prize winning production, Clybourne Park. She appeared in The Village in 2023.

In 2023, Strehlow appeared at an event for A Country Practice, where fans had gathered at locations, including the Wandin Valley hospital.

Strehlow is originally from the city of Rockhampton, Queensland. She took ballet lessons and joined Rockhampton Little Theatre at age 11, before studying drama at Flinders University in South Australia. She is married to a television sound technician. Her parents were both farmers who ran a bakery, and she is the mother of soap actress Sophie Hensser. She is Jewish.