Jean Beazley
Portrayed by: Nadine Garner
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Jean Beazley worked as Doctor Blake's receptionist and housekeeper, before becoming a love interest and later Fiancee. Having previously served in the same capacity for his father, Jean has difficulty adjusting to Lucien's eccentric and sometimes oblivious behaviour; although considered old-fashioned in her ideas about womanhood, she occasionally challenges Blake's expectation that she wait on him hand and foot.
As a widow after her husband died during the war, Jean is accutely aware that her living with the unattached Blake is a constant source of gossip in town. Jean is a shrewd, intelligent and observant lady who zealously guards her territory, missing nothing. She more often than not helps Lucien Blake with society chatter, expertly sifting through gossip for kernels of fact, which she dispenses when necessary.
Before the war, Jean was married to Christopher Beazley. Together they lived on a farm, with their sons.
Jean had always wanted to travel out of Ballarat and explore the world, visit new places and do new things. However, Christopher was perfectly happy with a simpe sedentary life. This lead to an argument between Jean and Christopher when Jean asked if this was the reason he was not enlisting for the army. Taking this as his manliness being called into question, Christopher therefore enlisted and was deployed to the front. Unfortately, Christopher was killed in action 2 weeks later.
Jean is as proud and independent as a woman could be in 1950s Australia. She is also a devout catholic and part of a knitting circle.
As a mature widow, she is very conservative and modest, as shown by her clothing, often flattering and very well put together, but never revealing, as well as her hair which is styled the exact same way all throughout the series.
For Lucien Blake, she is a figure of order and regularity to contrast his own chaotic way of life. She also obviously harbors strong feelings for him, but attempts to hide them on account of being his housekeeper and a widow. At first, she is close to a maternal figure, preparing his dinner and putting him to bed after he's spent the night drinking. As the series progresses, however, Jean progressively comes closer and eventually shows obvious manifestations of love. In Series 5 it is revealed that Lucien and Jean have become engaged.
During her engagement to Lucien, Jean has to overcome the battle of choosing between the Church or marrying Lucien. The church will not allow Jean to marry Lucien as he is a divorced man. Jean has been a devout catholic for all her life and doesn't make a decision lightly.
Source: http://the-doctor-blake-mysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Jean_Beazley
As a widow after her husband died during the war, Jean is accutely aware that her living with the unattached Blake is a constant source of gossip in town. Jean is a shrewd, intelligent and observant lady who zealously guards her territory, missing nothing. She more often than not helps Lucien Blake with society chatter, expertly sifting through gossip for kernels of fact, which she dispenses when necessary.
Before the war, Jean was married to Christopher Beazley. Together they lived on a farm, with their sons.
Jean had always wanted to travel out of Ballarat and explore the world, visit new places and do new things. However, Christopher was perfectly happy with a simpe sedentary life. This lead to an argument between Jean and Christopher when Jean asked if this was the reason he was not enlisting for the army. Taking this as his manliness being called into question, Christopher therefore enlisted and was deployed to the front. Unfortately, Christopher was killed in action 2 weeks later.
Jean is as proud and independent as a woman could be in 1950s Australia. She is also a devout catholic and part of a knitting circle.
As a mature widow, she is very conservative and modest, as shown by her clothing, often flattering and very well put together, but never revealing, as well as her hair which is styled the exact same way all throughout the series.
For Lucien Blake, she is a figure of order and regularity to contrast his own chaotic way of life. She also obviously harbors strong feelings for him, but attempts to hide them on account of being his housekeeper and a widow. At first, she is close to a maternal figure, preparing his dinner and putting him to bed after he's spent the night drinking. As the series progresses, however, Jean progressively comes closer and eventually shows obvious manifestations of love. In Series 5 it is revealed that Lucien and Jean have become engaged.
During her engagement to Lucien, Jean has to overcome the battle of choosing between the Church or marrying Lucien. The church will not allow Jean to marry Lucien as he is a divorced man. Jean has been a devout catholic for all her life and doesn't make a decision lightly.
Source: http://the-doctor-blake-mysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Jean_Beazley