Cornelia Frances
| Cornelia Frances | |
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| Born |
Cornelia Frances Zulver 7 April 1941 Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Notable work |
Grace Scott in The Young Doctors, Barbara Hamilton in Sons and Daughters Morag Bellingham in Home And Away |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Eastland (1969–?) (divorced) 1 child |
| Children | Lawrence Eastland (b. 1971) |
Grace Scott in The Young Doctors, Barbara Hamilton in Sons and Daughters
Cornelia Frances (born 7 April 1941) is an English-born actress of stage, television and film, best known for her acting career in Australia, particularly her television soap opera roles with portrayals of nasty characters such as Sister Grace Scott on Nine Network series The Young Doctors, Barbara Hamilton on Sons and Daughters and Morag Bellingham in Home and Away, both on Network Seven and the film version of The Box
Born as Cornelia Frances Zulver in Liverpool, England, she was educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her early work was in British-made feature films as an extra and bit-part player. This included bit parts in two films directed by her uncle Michael Powell: Peeping Tom (1960), and The Queen's Guards (1961). Frances has one son, named Lawrence.
Frances' acting career flourished after she had emigrated to Australia. After taking a lead role in the film version of sex-comedy soap opera The Box in 1975 she became known across Australia for her long running role of the strict and acidic Sister Grace Scott in daily soap opera The Young Doctors. After leaving that series to move to Melbourne with her husband who had been transferred there, she worked as a television reporter on "light" stories for a current affairs program hosted by Peter Couchman.
During this period she also made a brief appearance in Prisoner which was taped in the same studio as the Couchman show. Later she acted in guest starring television roles, before taking another well-remembered role, that of Barbara Armstrong (later Hamilton) in Sons and Daughters, a role she played from 1982 until 1986. She also hosted the Australian version of quiz show The Weakest Link (2001–2002) and provided the voice of Tortoise on the Australian/Chinese children's series, Magic Mountain. In the early 2000s Frances worked for a winery in the Hunter Valley when she could not get acting work. Her autobiography And what have you done lately? was published in 2003.
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