Maggie Kirkpatrick

The Gloves Are Off Maggie Kirkpatrick

I can actually tell my story without benefit of playwright or hidden beneath the cloak of a character.' Maggie Kirkpatrick, famous for her role as The Freak in Prisoner, presents a no-holds-barred account of her life both on and off screen. In The Gloves Are Off, Maggie takes us on her journey from humble beginnings in a Newcastle dress shop to becoming one of Australia s most well-known television and theatre stars. She gives us a peek behind the scenes of the television industry and the world of the theatre with insight and wit the business, the challenges and the names. Maggie also shares publicly, for the first time, the full story of her very public legal battle and the consequences of that battle that she s still living with today.