Wendy Hughes is an Australian actress. Hughes began her career on television in the early 1970s with appearances in Homicide, Number 96, Matlock Police and in 1976, ABC Mini-Series, Power Without Glory. Her big screen debut was in 1974 in the film Petersen in which she appeared naked in several scenes. She then spent the rest of the 1970s and 1980s as one of the leading actresses in Australian cinema, with roles in Newsfront, Kostas, My Brilliant Career, Lucinda Brayford, Touch and Go, Hoodwink, Lonely Hearts, Careful, He Might Hear You, My First Wife, I Can't Get Started, An Indecent Obsession, Echoes of Paradise, Boundaries of the Heart, Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988), and Luigi's Ladies. Hughes made her American debut in John G. Avildsen's film Happy New Year opposite Peter Falk and Charles Durning. In 1989 she starred opposite Pierce Brosnan in an HBO made for TV movie, "The Heist". She also continued to make occasional appearances on television, such as playing Jilly Stewart in the mini-series Return to Eden.