Top 10 singer became screen and stage actor
By Glenn A Baker
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TRISHA (PATSY ANN) NOBLE: 1944-2021
“I was raised by a show business family as an all-round performer, not just a pop singer,” Trisha Noble would declare not long before her death, at the age of 76 after an 18-month battle with a malignant tumour caused by exposure to asbestos. Like Helen Reddy, her grounding as an entertainer would recommend her from a young age to powerbrokers like Brian Henderson, presenter of national television’s
Bandstand.
Trisha Noble plays Dusty Springfield’s mother in the musical, Dusty, The Original Pop Diva, Melbourne, 2005.