Patricia Carmel Stewart Kennedy OBE (17 March 1916 – 10 December 2012) was an Australian actress with a long career in theatre, radio, film and television.

[5] Kennedy was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1982 New Year Honours, for service to the performing arts.

Even in her 80s, although she owned a house in Melbourne, she preferred to live alone in a hut without electricity, on the edge of a state forest near Bega in southern New South Wales.

[5] She appeared in plays such as Jay Presson Allen's adaptation of Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1968),[9] Ibsen's Ghosts (1969: Mrs Alving), Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, The Man Who Shot the Albatross (1972),[5] and Some of My Best Friends are Women (1976).

[14] In 1946, Kennedy shared the title role in Crawford Productions' radio drama The Melba Story with singer Glenda Raymond (later to become Hector Crawford's wife),[15] She played Miss Crump on the long-running ABC radio program The Village Glee Club (1942–71).