Louise Facts
Here are a selection of interesting Louise facts. If you have something to add, please mail me.
- Louise is very into Yoga and practices four times a week.
- She doesn't eat wheat.
- Her starsign is Gemini.
- Louise is a big giggler and has everyone she meets in hysterics.
- She prefers magazines to newspapers and her favorite ones are anything to do with fashion, travel and food & drink.
- She lives opposite the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne.
- She puts her flawless complexion down to the gallons of water she drinks.
- Louise's surname is Scandinavian and doesn't contain an "L" or an "O" CONTRARY to some peoples opinion!
- She appeared in 180 episodes of "Prisoner Cell block H"
- Louise has been married for 22 years.
- She adores pampering (or maintainance as she calls it!) and loves facials, manicures, pedicures and massages.
- She wanted to be a lawyer to please her Dad, but decided to pursue acting instead.
- She has been described as a "Kim Novak look a like". (No way- Louise is prettier!)
- Her favourite breakfast is fruit, yoghurt and nuts & seeds.
- Louise used to commute from Melbourne to Sydney every week to film "Backberner".
- Louise was born in Melbourne and still lives there.
- She has travelled to India, Bali and New York.
- She has a brother.
- In the play "Dark" she played many cameo roles including a bag lady and Germaine Greer!
- Louise never watched "Prisoner".
- She would like to work in England.
- She prefers turkey to chicken.
- She was 20 years old when she started in "Prisoner"- the same year she met her Husband.
- She loves drinking Australian wine.
- Her favourite ever present was her red BMW car from her husband Theo.
- Her worst present was a brooch which she keeps in her drawer.
- On her desk at home, she has a pink fluffy cushion monogramed in diamonte with her initials and two teddy bears.
- Louise enjoys playing "Loonies and Bitches" as she calls them.
- In the film "A Cry in the Dark", she is a few scenes, namely behind Sam Neil's character near the beginning in a pink dress, again in the Chamberlains house wearing pink trousers in the very final scenes clapping in the church wearing a very "Mumsy" blue dress and smiling a lot.
- In the film "Shine" she is in the party scene near the beginning, looking very elegant in a yellow ball gown and silver evening gloves.
- In the play "Art and Soul", not only did Louise appear totally naked, but she also played the bongos as well! (what a woman!)
- As a child, Louise kept dogs, cats, mice and birds.
- One of Louise's favourite films is "Burnt by the Sun".
- Louise was credited in 145 "Prisoner" episodes. Out of these, her surname was spelt correctly 115 times (79,3%), but she was credited as Louise Siverson 24 times (16,6%) and as Louise Silversen 6 times (4,1%). So maybe it's no wonder that fans sometimes spell her name incorrectly 20 years later, when even the professional people couldn't do it in those days! (Thanks to Bjorn for that fact)
- Louise is ranked 14th in the top 25 longest serving actresses in "Prisoner".
