Actor Nell Campbell in conversation with Sean O’Brien.
In this clip Nell, also known by her stage name Little Nell, talks about the birth of the 'Time Warp' and her star turn as the tap-dancing character Columbia in the original London stage production, and then in the film version, of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975).
Nell Campbell has had a long and successful career as an actor, singer and nightclub impresario.
She has appeared in films such as Journey Among Women (Tom Cowan, 1977) and Jubilee (Darek Jarman, 1978); released the EP The Musical World of Little Nell (1978); and ran the legendary New York nightclub, Nell’s.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.