FILMOGRAPHY
1994] "Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left"
1984]
The Boy Who Had Everything
1982] Duet for Four
1982] For the Term of His Natural Life (TV)
1980] Big Toys (TV)
1978] "Tycoon"
1973] The Wicker Man
1973] Spell of Evil (TV)
1973] Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1972] Z.P.G.
1968] Negatives
1967] Dial M for Murder (TV)
1967] Another Moon Called Earth (TV)
1967] Hombre
1965] Once Upon a Tractor
1965] The Agony and the Ecstasy
1964] Rattle of a Simple Man
1964] The Third Secret
1963] Tom Jones
1962] I Thank a Fool
1961] The Naked Edge
1961] The Full Treatment
1959] Jet Storm
1958] Truth About Women
1957] A Passionate Stranger
1957] The Admirable Crichton
1957] Anna Christie (TV)
1955] Passage Home
1955] The Woman for Joe
1954] Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
1954] Passing Stranger
1953] Meet Mr. Lucifer
1952] All Hallowe'en
1952] Moulin Rouge (uncredited)
1952] Wings of Danger
1951] Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (uncredited) (Voice)
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Born 5 October 1933 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Diane Cilento married three times. When she was 23 she eloped to marry Andrea Volpe, an Italian, with whom she had her fi rst child, Giovanna. She then married Sean Connery (1962 - 1973) (divorced) & then married English playwright Anthony Shaffer (1985 - 6 November 2001) (his death)
Has a son Jason with Sean Connery. Jason is also an actor appearing in: Shanghai Noon (2000); Macbeth (1997); "Robin of Sherwood" (1984) & in 2003 toured the UK in the play "The Blue Room".
Diane was one of six children & the daughter of Sir Ralphael West Cilento, a world- renowned authority on tropical medecine & Lady Phyllis who was also a doctor.
Cilento’s acting career began when she stumbled into an audition session at Carnegie Hall where she took dance lessons and instantly won a part.
In 1964 she was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for: Tom Jones
Diane was awarded an OBE in recognition of her status as a National Treasure.
She has written 2 bestselling novels, 'Hybrid' and 'The Manipulator'.
She directed a film called Turning for the BBC.
Diane Cilento is the director of Karnak Playhouse in Far North Queensland.
Trained at AADA, New York, and RADA, London
Diane had been a rebel-lious child. Expelled from her school [Toowoomba Boarding School] in Australia, she went to New York with her father, where she secretly spent her days at the museum and the movies instead of in the classroom, and where she discovered acting.
Her early life was marked by intense peaks of emotion: her elopement with a romantic Italian at the age of 23, a nervous breakdown and suicide attempt, and twice fleeing marriages without warning.
For a year she studied under John Godol-phin (J.G.) Bennett, an English Mystic and teacher.
Diane Cilento performed in many theatre productions over the span of her career. Most notable was her role as Helen of Troy in Tiger at the Gates, for which she received the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actress in New York. Other plays in which she has had major roles include Heartbreak House, Tennesse Williams’ Orpheus Descending, Romeo and Juliet, My Place, A Castle in Sweden, To Clothe the Naked, Altona, The Idiot and The Tam-ing of the Shrew.
Diane:
"What I realise is that I probably am a person who skips off when things get a bit diffi cult and I can’t hope to get them in order."
Described as:
Talented blonde beauty with a sly, seductive smile, successful on stage but in few substantial films.