Bettina Welch

Bettina Welch
as Maggie Cameron in Number 96
Born	Bettina Catherine Welch 1922 (1922) Auckland, New Zealand
Died	5 March 1993(1993-03-05) (aged 70-71) Australia
Occupation	Actress

Bettina Catherine Welch (1922 – 5 March 1993) was a New Zealand-born Australian-based theatre and television actor who became best known for her role as scheming fashion editor and businesswoman Maggie Cameron in the 1970s television soap opera Number 96.

Welch was born Auckland, New Zealand. Her acting career began in her teenage years when she arrived in Sydney from New Zealand with her parents on holiday. In Sydney she won a competition that led to her being trained by J. C. Williamson's theatre company, and she began acting on Australian radio. Her training with J. C. Williamson led to a succession of theatre roles with the company.

During Robert Morley's Australian theatre tour in 1949 she played his young mistress in Edward My Son. Her other stage roles include Australian productions of Harvey with Joe E. Brown, Simon and Laura and Deep Blue Sea with Googie Withers and John McCallum, the lead role opposite Emrys Jones in Double Image, and a featured role with Sir Robert Helpmann in Nude with Violin. Welch then appeared as the enchantress Morgan le Fey in J. C. Williamson's production of Camelot in the early 1960s, a role she played for two and a half years. She subsequently took one of the lead roles in four-handed comedy Any Wednesday, appeared in productions of There's A Girl in My Soup, The Bandwagon, played the nurse in Loot, appeared as the daughter Julie in A Delicate Balance, and took the lead role in a production of Wait Until Dark, a role for which she was critically acclaimed. Welch also played in Melbourne and Sydney in Hal Porter's Australian play Eden House. she also had a major role in Sydney Theatre Company's season of the Sondheim musical,"A Little Night Music" at Sydney Opera House in 1990.