Time to do a bit of a dive into the career of Tushka Bergen, probably best known as an international actress more than an Australian actress but her early career is all Australian. She had early roles in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome as one of the older children and TV series like Always Afternoon and Tanamera: Lion Of Singapore before getting the lead female role alongside Jeff Fahey in the 1988 rancher drama Minnamurra (also known as The Wrangler/Outback/whatever you want). Tushka then went to Germany and appeared in a bunch of German TV shows before branching out into international productions like Swing Kids and Barcelona. She would also turn up quite a bit on American and British TV. Tushka would later return to Australia to make three further movies (and the 1999 mini-series Journey to the Center of the Earth), the misjudged 1996 kidnap comedy/drama Turning April, where she has a nude scene from an incredible distance, the 1998 movie Hurrah and the 2003 Melbourne Cup carnival comedy flop Horseplay, which I remember more for Abbie Cornish just before she broke out.

Today I'm going to focus on a couple of movies where she had nude scenes. First up is the 1995 drama Voices From A Locked Room aka Voices, a British psychological drama based on a true story where Tushka plays an American singer who goes to Europe and falls for a British composer/critic (Jeremy Northam) who turns out to schizophrenic and living a double life which Tushka's character attempts to understand.

I remember seeing this movie being available on VHS back in the day (although I didn't see it) but it doesn't seem to have become available on DVD. But the movie has turned up on US Tubi and that is where I have made the collages and videos from. It's fairly decent DVD quality videos, better quality than anything else I've seen (you can see a VHS collage of Tushka's nude scene in the images on the IMDB page for the movie, which has snuck onto the page). In the movie, Tushka has a sex scene where she's taken from behind and we see her bottom. Later, she gets up out of bed and walks over the the window naked where we see her bottom and brief looks at the side of both of her breasts as she puts on a gown.


Tushka's best nudity comes from the 1998 Australian movie Hurrah aka Heaven Sent. It seems to be a two-hander between Tushka and New Zealand actor Marton Csokas set in the Australian country. The movie was apparently released in Australia but I never saw it listed in cinemas at the time and I have my doubts it even got a release on VHS here in Australia (DVD didn't start in Australia until late 2000). The Australian Classification site has two listings for the movie, both under Public Exhibition which means it's for cinema showings which may have happened in one city in Australia (there's quite a number of examples of Australian movies only being released in Sydney cinemas). Interestingly, Hurrah was initially rated the harsher R18+ rating, a rarity for a movie listing 'Medium Level Sex Scenes'. 8 months later it received a lesser rating which suggests that the distributors were planning a release but got cold feet on the R18+ rating.

Hurrah

1998

Tushka Bergen film clips (collages below)

Voices From a Locked Room

1995

Tushka Bergen film clip (collage below)