supports them - just like every Italian mama.

Her delicious food is probably Pia's best ally, making her many friends, including Ron O'Donnell ,and mending rifts if ever there are any.

Zoe Carides plays Pia Jones

Zoe Carides has starred in an exceptional line-up of Australian television series and telemovies including Strawberry Girl, Sisters In The Bathroom, E Street, G.P., Flying Doctors, Heartland, Good Guys Bad Guys, Wildside, Murder Call, Dogs Head Bay, Grass Roots, All Saints, My Husband My Killer, White Collar Blue, Redhead, Fireflies and Monarch Cove.

Most recently she appeared in the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks-produced television series, The Pacific.

Zoe has also appeared in numerous feature films such as Brilliant Lies, Death In Brunswick, With Inertia, Kadaicha, Seeing Red, Shotgun Wedding, Gino, Police Rescue The Movie, Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns and The Black Balloon.

No stranger to theatre, Zoe has starred in the theatrical productions of Influence (Sydney Theatre Company), Biloxi Blues (Gary Penny Productions – Opera House), Hating Alison Ashley (Toy Truck Theatre Company), The Vagina Monologues (Adrian Bohm Productions), Love Letters (Les Curie Presentations) and, most recently, Anna In The Tropics (Bsharp/Belvoir Street Theatre).