Candy Raymond

Candy Raymond
Born	Candida Raymond 1950 Sydney, Australia
Years active	1969-

Candida "Candy" Raymond (born 1950 in Sydney, New South Wales Australia) is an Australian actress of film and television during the 1970s and early 1980s. She attended St Ives High School in Sydney.

As a teenager she played small guest roles in Australian television soap operas and TV series including Skippy (1969) and Riptide (1969).

In mid-1973, she played Jill Sheridan in Number 96 who was presented as a sex symbol in what was considered an adults only TV show, ultimately involving her in several, controversial, nude sequences,[1]. She then played a regular character in Class of '74.

In 1975, Raymond was a regular in a comic skit segment titled The Checkout Chicks which in turn was part of The Norman Gunston Show (1975).

As both actress and storyline writer, she played a Jewish escapee of Europe in the WWII based TV series The Sullivans (1976).

She also appeared in a number of feature films, including Alvin Purple Rides Again (1974), the attractive artist Kerry in Don's Party (1976), A Viennese school teacher in The Getting of Wisdom (1977), Money Movers (1978), The Journalist (1979), Freedom (1982) and Monkey Grip (1982).

In 1981, she played imprisoned journalist, Sandra Hamilton, in the TV series Prisoner.

1985 was a busy year. Over several months, Ms Raymond was involved in filming two television mini-series simultaneously in two different cities - In Sydney, she filmed Shout - the story of Johnny O'Keefe (1985), and in Melbourne, she was involved in The Great Bookie Robbery (1986). In the same year, she also starred in the A.B.C. tele-movie Breaking Up, playing a 30-something mother-of-two going through a marriage break-up. For this role, she later won an Australian Film Institute Award as best Actress in a tele-movie or mini-series.

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