Diane Cilento
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Cilento in 1954
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| Born |
5 October 1933 Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 6 October 2011 (aged 78) Cairns, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation | Actress, author |
| Years active | 1950–2011 |
| Spouse(s) | Andrea Volpe (m. 1956–1960; divorced) Sir Sean Connery (m. 1962–1973; divorced) Anthony Shaffer (m. 1985–2001; his death) |
| Children | Giovanna Volpe Jason Connery |
| Parent(s) | Sir Raphael Cilento Lady Phyllis Cilento |
Diane Cilento (5 October 1933 – 6 October 2011) was an Australian theatre and film actress and author.
Cilento was born in Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia. Her parents, Sir Raphael Cilento and Phyllis, Lady Cilento (née Phyllis Dorothy McGlew), were both distinguished medical practitioners in Queensland. Her paternal great-grandfather was Italian. Her maternal grandfather was merchant and exporter Charles Thomas McGlew.
At an early age she decided to follow a career as an actress and, after being expelled from school in Australia, was 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.
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 the British film 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, 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 in 1963 and appeared in The Third Secret the following year. However, she allowed her film career to decline following her marriage to actor Sean Connery, the second of her three husbands and to whom she was married from 1962 to 1973. They had one son, the actor Jason Connery. She had previously had a daughter, Giovanna, with her first husband. Cilento stated that she was beaten unconscious by Connery in their hotel room during the filming of The Hill.
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