Her productions include 1975's Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Gallipoli, which received an AFI Award in 1982 as Best Film.
Lovell was born in Sydney, New South Wales, in either Artarmon or Willoughby,[1] the second child,[3] and first daughter, of Letitia Evelyn (née Forsyth) (5 January 1906 – 21 April 1986) and Harold George Parr (1901 – 23 March 1970), an optometrist.
She attended Presbyterian Ladies' College, Armidale, but "didn't do well in the Leaving at all" and failed to get a university pass.
When ATN-7's early morning Sydney Today show began in 1969 she and Bruce Webster were its co-presenters,[6] and it was there as an interviewer that she met Peter Weir, the director with whom she would produce her two best-known films, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli.
[6] Lovell worked as Head of Producing at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) between 1996 and 2003.