Trisha Noble
Trisha Noble is an actor, born 1944.
Before she acted, Trisha Noble sang. Performing as Patsy Ann Noble, she was a teenage pop singer in Australia in the early 1960s with regular appearances on the music and variety series Bandstand, and in November 1961 she released her biggest single, "Good Looking Boy", which reached the Top 10 in Melbourne and the Top 20 in Sydney. At the Logie Awards for 1961, TV Week named her Best Female Singer of the Year.
By 1962 she had moved to the United Kingdom to keep releasing records, and the acting career grew out of the relocation rather than the other way around. She began television acting in the mid-1960s and was working under the name Trisha Noble by the end of the decade, which is when British comedy at its broadest claimed her: Carry On Camping in 1969, and Up Pompeii! the same year. The 1970s took her to the United States for guest work in American series, and in 1983 she returned to Australia, where she also worked as a theatre actress.
For a much later audience she is Jobal Naberrie, Padme Amidala's mother, in Star Wars: Episode III. It is a small part in an enormous film, and it is the credit that keeps her name in circulation, which is a slightly unfair summary of forty years of work but not an unusual one. She died in 2021.
Movies (3)
TV (3)
Where to start with Trisha Noble
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith is why most people arrive at this page, so watch it first and set expectations accordingly: the role is brief and largely wordless, one of the domestic faces the film uses to give Padme a life outside politics.
The better representation of the actual career is the British comedy. Carry On Camping is the more famous of the two 1969 credits and the easier watch; Up Pompeii! is broader still and has aged into something closer to a historical document. The Private Eyes is a light spoof and pleasant enough.
Matt Helm and Blonde cover the American television work at either end of that stretch.
The honest caveat: her best material is the early-1960s pop records, and a filmography cannot show you those at all.