Lorraine Bayly
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Bayly in 2012
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Lorraine Daphne Bayly 16 January 1937 Australia |
| Occupation | Film and television actress |
| Years active | 1958–present |
Lorraine Daphne Bayly AM (born 16 January 1937) is an Australian actress of film, television and theatre.
Lorraine Bayly was born in Narrandera, New South Wales. Her first performance was at age 3, playing tambourine with the Salvation Army. At ages 5–9, she wrote, directed and starred in plays in the local jail; her father being a policeman, amateur magician and ventriloquist. At age 9-10, she had a ventriloquist act which 35 years later she performed part of on The Parkinson Show in 1984, using Michael as her dummy. At age 11-12, she played classical piano Saturday afternoons live on Radio 2UE and at 21, was a founding member of the Ensemble Theatre at Kirribilli in Sydney. Over the next 55 years Bayly has played 43 roles in various theatre companies all over Australia.
Some of Lorraine's theatre roles include Chase Me Comrade with Stanley Baxter, playing Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee, Sheila in John Misto's Shoehorn Sonata, Mrs Patrick Campbell in Dear Liar, Margaret in Rough Justice, D H Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law, David Williamson's Travelling North and Birthrights, Bella in Gaslight and The Male of The Species with Edward Woodward. In 2010 Lorraine starred in the well known play Calendar Girls and more recently in David Williamson's When Dad Married Fury.
Listed among Lorraine's many television credits: The miniseries 1915 (ABC), The Challenge playing Eileen Bond, Betsy Tender in Grim Pickings (SAFC) and as Lindy Chamberlain's mother Avis Murchison in Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story. Lorraine was also a popular presenter and original cast member on the children's television show Play School from 1966 to 1978.
Bayly is perhaps best known to television audiences for her portrayal of Grace Sullivan, the mother figure in the drama series The Sullivans (1976–1979), dealing with life for an ordinary Australian family during the Second World War. Indeed, Lorraine's character had one of the more iconic storylines when her character was killed by a V-bomb in England.
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