Diane Cilento
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Diane Cilento was born in 1932 in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia. She had her first leading film role in Passage Home (1955). She soon secured roles in British films and worked steadily until the decade's end. In 1956, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for Helen of Troy in Jean Giraudoux’s Tiger at the Gates. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Tom Jones (1963) and appeared in The Third Secret the following year.
Cilento starred with Charlton Heston in the 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstasy, and with Paul Newman in the 1967 western film Hombre, and had a supporting role in The Wicker Man (1973). She continued working as an actress, in movies and on television.
In the 1980s, Cilento settled in Mossman, north of Cairns, Queensland, Australia, where she built her outdoor theatre, named “Karnak”, in the tropical rainforest. The venture allowed her to participate in experimental drama. In 2001, Cilento was awarded the Centenary Medal for "distinguished service to the arts, especially theatre".
Personal life
In 1955, Cilento married Andrea Volpe, an Italian. She gave birth to their daughter, Giovanna, in 1957. Cilento and Volpe divorced in 1962. Later that year, Cilento married actor Sean Connery, with whom she had a son, Jason, in 1963. Cilento and Connery separated in 1971 and divorced in 1974. In her autobiography "My Nine Lives", Cilento said that Connery was emotionally and physically abusive during their marriage. In 1985, Cilento married playwright Anthony Shaffer, whom she had met in 1972 while working on "The Wicker Man". They remained married until he died in 2001.
She died of cancer at Cairns Base Hospital in 2011 at the age at 79.
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- More information is available at [ Wikipedia:Diane_Cilento ]
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