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Louise Jane Kelly was an inmate of Wentworth Detention Centre indicted for several crimes including armed robbery and murder.

Kelly had been a long term inmate of the prison who was always in-and-out of prison until her permanent fixture after Bea Smith's transfer to Barnhurst.

Kelly was unhinged during her time as top dog and even her downfall after the riot and to put the icing on the cake she was threatened with imprisonment at Blackmoor.

Kelly was found killed in her solitary cell, in a murder mystery where it was revealed that Janet Williams had killed her.

Time at Wentworth

Lou Kelly was in a different block before H Block. It was mentioned Lou would go against Bea Smith with Alice Jenkins' help despite that Lou didn't came to H Block until ep 384 and Alice came in ep 419.

She never had a dull moment when Franky Doyle was around (2-20) (According to (536)).

She helped dig the tunnel for the escape and wanted to go herself (164) (According to (536)).

1983 Season

She was working at a shop and is robbed by Nola McKenzie (333).

She works the dryer in the laundry (384). She has a meal in the dining room and next seen talking to 2 inmates in the rec room (385). She walks down the corridor with Ronnie Kennedy and takes Petra Roberts first class sitting next to Pixie (386). She evacuates the building along with the other women during the bomb threat (387). She was in Petra's class about the Great Depression (388). She does the laundry pick-up when Lucy and Maxine escape in the laundry truck (389). She was in the rec room when the women were voting on Mum's money and agreed for it to be used on recently released prisoners (390). She was not a victim during the Lassa fever quarantine (391-393). She has a meal during the relaxed security (394). She is standing next to Bea Smith in muster line up and chosen by Joan to scrub out bins for Lizzie's grog (399).Lou offers a boa to Cass for Petra's wedding. She is first credited as Louise in episode (404). She is seen surrounding Sonia when Cass and Minnie force her to drink the homemade alcohol (406-407). She is working on the sowing machine in the laundry (409). She has a meal and over hears how Minnie Lagged (410).

1984 Season

When Judy becomes top dog she helps surround Joyce in the dinning room (419). When Marge Briggs is transferred she is among the women brawling in the rec room and has to clean up the mess (420). She is working in the Laundry and sees Bobbie and Doreen Burns being foolish and later in the rec room sees Bobbie trying to impress Rick Manning (440). Lou agrees to take part in the strike while working on the dryer (447). She overs hears how Bobbie was caught and walks down the corridor from the shower block (448). She torments Hannah Geldschmidt with Alice's support as a "Kraut" (452) and eventually Hannah taunts Lou and Frances Harvey into bashing her to delay her deportation (453).

After Reb Kean has bashed Phyllis in the shower block, Lou tries to take Phyllis' place in dealing drugs for Reb and gives Reb an alibi (461). Lou is next seen helping Marie Winter in the riot she arranges at Joan's instigation (466). When Marie escapes, it is Lou she asks to start a fight as a diversion (471).

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Lou Kelly's best bits "I Gotta Feeling" - Prisoner Cell Block H - Louise Siversen

With Reb out of action and Marie gone, Lou plans to take over the rackets, but modestly decides she needs someone to be the brains of the outfit, and approaches new prisoner Bev Baker (473), who doesn't want payment in cash but victims to torment. Lou provides a selection of implements for her, including a knitting needle (475).

Lou and Alice team up again to torment Reb's mother when she is brought to Wentworth for aiding her escape (480).

While still working with Reb, Lou is looking for ways to take over the trading. She gives information to Joan about Heather's attempt to frame her, in return for help in getting her friend Neville a job as handyman so he can bring in goods to trade (484) - though of course, Joan doesn't do anything of the sort.

Lou sets Reb up so that Joan can find a knife on her and have her sent to solitary (485) - which Joan uses to try to push Reb over the banisters. When Reb returns from solitary, she uses Lou to front for her, as she is trying to distance herself from the rackets so she can win support from the women and take over as top dog.

Lou overhears that the Governor is getting threatening letters, and Reb decides to fake a ransom demand (487). This backfires for Lou when Neville is caught collecting the money, and she is charged as an accomplice to murder (489) after a police guard on Ann's flat is killed and the police assume Neville was responsible.

Lou is furious and demands that Reb helps her with an escape attempt. Her first attempt is during a softball game, when she attacks Phil Cleary, Meg and a gate guard with a bat (490), but she is stopped by Marlene. Lou is sent to solitary, but she has a razor blade hidden in her shoe and uses it to take Joyce Barry hostage, get her into the armoury to collect a gun, then drive Lou out of the prison in her own car. After tying Joyce up and hiding her in the boot of her own car, Lou makes her way to Reb's mother's place and demands money from her.

Diedre tells Lou she'll have to wait until the next day when she can go to a bank. Lou is injured in the arm when Diedre grabs the gun and it goes off (492). Lou makes it to Adelaide, but is recaptured when a "handsome stranger" takes her for a meal and walks off with all her money, leaving her unable to pay. She is returned to Wentworth, where she is inducted by Joyce (495).

While she was away, the new male officer Len Murphy has arrived and Lou is drawn into plans by both Joan and the women to frame him, but these come to nothing. After Brian Lowe is identified as the person behind the threatening letters to Ann, Lou's murder charge is dropped, but she then becomes one of the prime suspects for the murder of corrupt visiting justice Sarah Higgins (499).

Myra resigns as top dog when she finds everyone but her knew that Lou Kelly was dealing drugs (502). Reb takes over and decides to have another try at getting rid of Len, this time using the fact that Len clearly fancies Lou. Len is set up to be discovered having sex with Lou, but he outsmarts the plotters and calls on Lou's cell later in the evening and forces Lou to have sex with him, resulting in Lou being raped by Len Murphy (503).

1985 Season

After Reb is outsmarted by Joan and transferred to Blackmoor, Lou tries to take over the rackets and starts to fix Marlene's cockroach races and use Lexie's card playing skills to con money out of the women. With the help of Woodridge prisoner Frank Burke, Lou gets in drugs herself and demands the women's buy up and payment for protection (512).

When lawyer Janice Grant is brought to Wentworth as a prisoner, Lou quickly realizes she is an alcoholic and supplies her with various alcohol substitutes such as metho (515). When Myra tries to stop her, Lou decides to get rid of both Myra and Joan. She steals a zip gun made by Frank in the workshop and plans to frame Myra for killing Joan. Unfortunately the plan and the gun both backfire and Lou ends up in hospital (517).

When she returns, a further attempt to get rid of Myra by wiring up her cell door handle to the electricity ends in disaster when Samantha Greenway is killed by mistake. Lou and Alice string her up to make it look like suicide (520). Myra finds out who was really responsible and tricks Frank into thinking that Lou intended to frame him for the murder, so Frank beats up Lou (522).

Lou has to share with the nun Anita Selby (526) at Anita's request as she wants to try and "save" Lou - fortunately there is no chance of that, and it provides many opportunities for classic Lou put downs and snide comments.

Lou goes for trial for the attempted murder of Joan and gets another seven years (534), noticing that Joan is suffering memory lapses when giving evidence. Myra plans to use this by framing Joan for bashing Lou when she is having a funny turn. The plot collapses when Anita Selby is stricken with conscience and tells the truth about what happened.

Lou finds herself outclassed by the next lot of arrivals: May Collins refuses to support Lou's challenge to Myra as top dog and Lou's attempt to suck up to Ruth Ballinger just gets her a slap across the face (539).

Lou does eventually manage to convince Ruth to let her do errands and when Ruth agrees to get rid of Myra in return for having her escape arranged by Joan, Lou is the one who beats up Myra (548) and is accused by Joan for attempted murder (549).

After Ruth's escape is bungled, the prison is besieged by armed terrorists trying to free her. Lou tries to help them at first, but is forced by their ruthlessness to join forces with the other women. She gets skewers and knives from the kitchen and manages to stab one of the terrorists in the leg (551).

After Myra is killed by the terrorists, Lou tries to take over as top dog (552), but loses to Nora Flynn. Lou fights back for a while, taking over the press and bashing a few women to convince the others of her authority (557) but it doesn't last very long.

Lou is not looking forward to Reb's promised return to Wentworth. However, when they see how she has changed they are initially puzzled - but Lou sees her comb her hair and thinks she is faking (577). Lou and Alice are later made to coach Reb to convince Dr Weissman to argue for her release.

1986 Season

Lou is once again overtaken by new arrival Rita Connors. Lou decides to stir up trouble by pouring paint on Rita's jacket (588) and tries to blame Joan for it.

Joan uses Lou to cause trouble for the Governor and Lou eventually stirs up the women into starting a hunger strike (590) - this does lead to Ann's resignation. After Lou and Alice attack Joan and put her in one of the driers, someone gets her out again and leaves a note on Joan implicating Lou.

Lou is convinced that Lexie is responsible and tries to electrocute her with a faulty power point in the kitchen (593).

Lou becomes top dog and leads the women in another hunger strike to protest against the new Governor Bob Moran (597). This becomes a fully fledged riot when Lou finds out that the "Phantom Lagger" was Eve Wilder. After the briefest of trials, Eve is strung up in the dining room and Lou kicks the chair away (600). Officers Joan, Joyce, and Andrea Radcliffe and Mervin Pringle, Steve Ryan and Rita's gang are taken hostage. She also has cronie Wendy Stone beat Julie Egbert nearly to death for breaking strike. Lou sets Rita and Joan to fight to the death in the laundry but Bob Moran overpowers Lou and puts an end to the riot.

At first it seems certain that Lou will be transferred to Blackmoor, but Bob decides to keep her on to make an "example" of her to the other women. To teach them a lesson, Lou and Alice are subjected to a "trial" and a faked "hanging" organised by new top dog Rita (603). This causes Alice to sever ties with Lou for good, so Lou fakes a suicide attempt to get to hospital from where she is able to escape (607). She seeks refuge with Alice's family in the country, but they behave oddly towards her, and hide her in the barn until their "visitors" have left. When she is invited inside the house, it seems she is expected to work for nothing or be reported to the police. Alice's brother Sean rapes Lou and when she hears Alice's mother Flora planning to "get rid" of her, she gets hold of a gun and shoots them both before escaping (612) but she collapses at the roadside and is recaptured. Lou's first meal back in Wentworth contains a threatening note, and Alice and Rita make various attempts to get to her in sickbay.

Death

We later learn that Lou has been found dead in solitary, in a murder-mystery storyline, with Alice, Rita, Bob, Joan, Lexie and Janet all having motives to kill her. It turned out to be Janet "Maggot" Williams who had killed her, as she had betrayed her when they tried to blackmail Bob to aid an escape due to his close relationship with new inmate Kath Maxwell. She was murdered during Mervin and Joyce's wedding breakfast hosted by the women.

Trivia

  • Siversen made several appearances as different characters and as an extra before her first credit as Lou in episode 452. She appears uncredited as a nurse in episode 169 and appears in episode 333 credited as a shop assistant. After appearing uncredited as a background character from 384 to 392, she is credited as Tammy Fisher in 399 (a minor role that is later played by Gloria Ajenstat). She is credited as Louise in 404, before again appearing uncredited in the backgrounds of 406-412, 418-420, 422, 440, 443 and 447.
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