Stage roles included Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice Lang remained active in the industry to her death in 1995, aged 93, performing alongside her former radio contemporary and Blue Hills star Queenie Ashton in a production of The Old Grey Mare, to mark the 50th anniversary of the rural department of the ABC.
[1] Lang was born in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, New South Wales, to a father from Germany and a mother of an English background who worked as a hairdresser's receptionist, her father came to Australia with his three brothers and sister from Baden-Baden, aged 14, she had two sisters, one Beryl died at thirteen weeks from mulnutrition and another sister Rita died at one year and ten months old from inflammation of the stomach.
[6] Lang married actor and elocution teacher James Brunton Gibb (13 January 1897 – 28 June 1968) on 1 September 1923; they frequently appeared on stage together.
[12][13] Wendy appeared in the 1949 film Sons of Matthew, left for London and joined Dan O'Connor's British Commonwealth Players and in 1953 became Mrs Michael Benge.
[17] He is commemorated at Sydney High School by the David Brunton Gibb Prize for Soccer.