Diane Cilento

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About Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento (5 October 1933 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian theatre and film actress and author.


Contents


1 Biography

1.1 Early life and education
1.2 Career


2 Personal life

2.1 Family
2.2 Death


3 Filmography
4 Writings
5 References
6 External links


Biography[edit source | edit]
Early life and education[edit source | edit]
Cilento's parents, Sir Raphael Cilento and Phyllis, Lady Cilento, were both distinguished medical practitioners in Queensland.
At an early age she decided to follow a career as an actress and, after being expelled from school in Australia, she schooled in New York while living with her father. She later won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and moved to England in the early 1950s.
Career[edit source | edit]
After graduation, Cilento found work on stage almost immediately and was signed to a five-year contract by Sir Alexander Korda. Her first leading role in a movie was in Passage Home (1955), opposite fellow Australian Peter Finch.
She soon secured roles in British films and worked steadily until the end of the decade. In 1956, Cilento 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 in 1963 and appeared in The Third Secret the following year, but she allowed her film career to decline following her marriage to actor Sean Connery, the second of her three husbands, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1973. They had one son, the actor Jason Connery. She also had a daughter, Giovanna, with her first husband.
In Connery's James Bond film You Only Live Twice, she doubled for her husband's co-star Mie Hama in a diving scene because Hama was indisposed.
She starred with Charlton Heston in the 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstasy, and with Paul Newman in the 1967 western film Hombre.
In 1985, Cilento married Anthony Shaffer, a playwright, who wrote the script of The Wicker Man; she met him when she appeared in the film in 1973, and he joined her when she returned to Queensland in 1975.
Cilento continued working as an actress, both in films and in television and, in the 1980s, settled in Mossman, north of Cairns, where she built her own outdoor theatre, named "Karnak", in the tropical rainforest. The venture allowed her to participate in experimental drama.[citation needed]
In 2006, Cilento released her autobiography, My Nine Lives.
In 2001, she was awarded the Centenary Medal, for "distinguished service to the arts, especially theatre".[10]
Personal life[edit source | edit]
Family[edit source | edit]

Parents


Sir Raphael Cilento (1893–1985)
Lady Phyllis Cilento (1894–1987)


Siblings

Diane Cilento was the fifth of six children, four of whom became medical practitioners, and the other, Margaret, was an artist.[11]

Husbands and children




Husband
Children


1956–1960
Andrea
Giovanna (Gigi) Volpe (10 December 1957–)[12]


1962–1973[13]
Sean Connery (1930–)
Jason Connery (11 January 1963–)[14]


1985–2001
Anthony Shaffer
(1926–2001)
In 1975, Shaffer made his home in Queensland with Cilento. They married in 1985.
Cilento was Shaffer's third wife; he had two daughters from a previous marriage.[15][16]


Death[edit source | edit]
Diane Cilento died of cancer[17] at Cairns Base Hospital on 6 October 2011, the day after her 78th birthday.[18] She is survived by both her children.[17]
Filmography[edit source | edit]







Diane Cilento in I Thank a Fool (1962)









With Peter Finch during filming of Passage Home (1955)








All Hallowe'en (1952)
Wings of Danger (1952)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1954)
Passing Stranger (1954)
Passage Home (1955)
The Woman for Joe (1955)
The Passionate Stranger (1957)
The Admirable Crichton (1957)
The Truth About Women (1957)
Jet Storm (1959)
The Full Treatment (1960)
The Naked Edge (1961)




I Thank a Fool (1962)
Tom Jones (1963)
The Third Secret (1964)
Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
Once Upon a Tractor (1965)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Hombre (1967)
Negatives (1968)
The Persuaders! TV episode "A Death in the Family (1971)
Z.P.G. (1972)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Duet for Four (1982)
The Boy Who Had Everything (1984)




Writings[edit source | edit]

1968: Manipulator. Charles Scribner's Sons.
1972: Hybrid. Dell Publishing.
2007: My Nine Lives. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143006077

References[edit source | edit]


^ Peter Keepnews (8 October 2011). "Diane Cilento, Oscar-Nominated Actress, Dies at 78". The New York Times. 
^ a b Brief Biography: Diane Cilento, Australian Biography (SBS TV), 2000.
^ a b Mark Finnane, 'Cilento, Sir Raphael West (Ray) (1893–1985)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, Melbourne University Press, pp. 216–17.
^ a b Mary D. Mahoney, 'Cilento, Phyllis Dorothy (1894–1987)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, Melbourne University Press, pp. 214–15.
^ a b Interview transcript tape 1: Diane Cilento, Australian Biography (SBS TV), 2000.
^ "MARIAN MARCH PAGE.". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 23 November 1954. p. 16. Retrieved 11 February 2012. 
^ Academy Awards Database, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1963
^ Lisenti, Tom; Louis Paul (2002). Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962–1973. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 144. ISBN 0-7864-1194-5. 
^ McFarlane, Brian: Book Review: My Nine Lives, The Age, 29 April 2006.
^ It's an Honour
^ The Telegraph, 19 January 2007; Retrieved 3 April 2013
^ How they live The Australian Women's Weekly 2 July 1958 p.21
^ Australian actress Diane Cilento dies aged 78
^ Surprise gift for Diane The Australian Women's Weekly 25 December 1968 p.2 – Contains photo of Sean, Gigi, Jason and Diane
^ Obituary: Anthony Shaffer, 8 November 2001, The Guardian
^ "Playwright's family fight off mistress's claim to share legacy", 10 February 2004, The Guardian
^ a b Guardian obituary
^ Actress Diane Cilento dies, 7 October 2011, ABC News


External links[edit source | edit]



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Diane Cilento at the Internet Movie Database
Diane Cilento's Karnak Playhouse
"From Stardom to Sufism" – interview with Cilento by Rachael Kohn on ABC Radio National May 2006 (MP3/Podcast available)






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WorldCat
VIAF: 50710569
LCCN: n86105724
ISNI: 0000 0000 7840 6888
GND: 132911574









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