Celebrity Biographies
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento became an Oscar nominee. She was the wife of Sean Connery and playwright Anthony Shaffer. The Australian actress she died on October 6, 2011 in a hospital in Cairs, northeast Australia, at the age of 78, after suffering a long illness.
Born on October 5, 1933 in Brisbane, the capital of the Australian state of Queensland, Diane Cilento was the daughter of two distinguished physicians. When she was a teenager, she decided to pursue acting, and studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.
He began his career in British cinema voicing a character in The Hidalgo of the Seas , and later in titles such as Voyage Back , by Roy Ward Baker , or the co-production with the United States Shadows of Suspicion (1961) , where he appeared alongside to Gary Cooper .
Her most prominent role was the beautiful gamekeeper’s daughter, who had an affair with the leading man in Tom Jones . For her work, she earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
In the 1980s, she retired from cinema, and dedicated herself to the Karnak Playhouse, an open-air theater that she herself ran in her hometown. Divorced from Andrea Volpe, she was together for many years with Sean Connery . She had the thorn in her that she was only known as the wife of the James Bond actor. “I’ve had a much more interesting and complicated life than that,” she told reporters when she presented her autobiography in 2006. She later also had a relationship with playwright Anthony Shaffer .
The actress leaves behind two children, Giovanna Volpe and Jason Connery .