Nikki Coghill

Nicola Vicars Coghill (born 4 January 1964) is an Australian actress. She is best known for playing the roles of Sister Jackie Crane in The Flying Doctors, and Miranda Parker in Neighbours.

Coghill was born in Melbourne. Before her acting career, she trained as a classical ballet dancer through out her school years. She spent six months touring with the Australian Opera as one of their dancers at the age of 15. She completed her final year of school at Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, specialising in dance, but went on to study an Arts degree at University of Melbourne, where she also got involved in extra-curricular university theatre.^[1]

After graduating and getting an agent, Coghill landed a six month contract in the soap opera Starting Out in 1983.^[1] playing Margot Fallon-Smith. She also starred in 1986 Vietnam War miniseries Sword of Honour as Vivienne and 1990 miniseries All the Rivers Run II as Delie – both, alongside fellow Neighbours alumnus, Alan Fletcher.

Other appearances in miniseries include A Fortunate Life (1986) and The Fremantle Conspiracy (1988). She held a recurring guest role in All the Way from 1988 to 1989 as Terry O'Rourke. From 1991 to 1992 she starred as Sister Jackie Crane in The Flying Doctors. In 1994, she had a regular role in The Bob Morrison Show as Lizzy Morrison. From 1999 to 2000 she appeared as the regular character Dr. Liz Daniels in Thunderstone.

In 2007, Coghill joined the cast of long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours,^[2] as events organiser Miranda Parker – wife of Steve Parker, and mother of Bridget Parker and Riley Parker.^[3] In 2009, Coghill, together with Eloise Mignon and Steve Bastoni departed Neighbours. Mignon, who played her daughter Bridget, wanted to leave the series to continue her studies. Without Bridget, the writers felt Steve and Miranda were not viable as characters.^[1]

Coghill has made guest appearances in numerous other Australian television series and movies. Her television roles include Waterloo Station, Sons and Daughters, Willing and Abel, Rafferty's Rules, The Flying Doctors, Acropolis Now, Hey Dad..!, Minder in Australia, Time Trax, G.P., Blue Heelers, Guinevere Jones, McLeod's Daughters, City Homicide, It's a Date, Offspring and Bad Mothers.

Her film credits include Annie's Coming Out (1984), Rebel (1985) alongside Matt Dillon, Playing Beatie Bow (1986), Twelfth Night (1986) opposite Geoffrey Rush, Dark Age, The Time Guardian, Running from the Guns (all 1987) and Point of No Return (1994).

Coghill has also undertaken voiceover work and theatre work,^[1] performing in productions for Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre Company and La Mama.^[4]

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Nikki Coghill has two daughters and lives in Melbourne with her husband.

• Nikki Coghill at IMDb