Roma Egan
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Roma Egan at a dress rehearsal of Sleeping Beauty in the 1970s.
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Roma Jean Egan 28 March 1948 Camberwell East, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Child actress, ballet dancer, ballet teacher |
| Years active | 1956–2011 |
| Television |
Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten In Melbourne Tonight (IMT) Tarax Show |
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Roma Egan is the first cousin of Brian Kavanagh
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Roma Egan (born 28 March 1948) was a child actress on Australian television, and an Australian ballet dancer and teacher. She was notably a senior soloist for The Australian Ballet, and variously performed for the Queensland Ballet, Basel Ballet, Ballet Victoria and Royal New Zealand Ballet.
Roma Jean Egan was born in Camberwell East, Victoria. Her primary education was at Hawthorn East State School and Croydon North State School (where she was Dux), and her secondary education was at Box Hill Grammar School and the Methodist Ladies' College (MLC), Melbourne.
When Egan was 6 yrs, she first began ballet cases run by Edith Lynton; a widow whose husband was killed in Borneo in 1945. Lynton had a varied career as a champion Highland dancer, a theatre actress, an announcer, a ballet mistress for the J. C. Williamson Company, and had travelled to England receiving degrees and honours from the British Association of Teachers of Dancing. Lynton was also a judge in the major Eisteddfods in Australia.
Egan carried out her Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) grade exams under Edith Lynton, up to Grade 5 obtaining honours for all of them. Under Lynton's tutelage, Egan also participated in many Victorian Eisteddfods successfully.
Egan signed up with the Bambi Smith Modelling College, and was commissioned for photo modelling in knitting magazines and modelled clothes on catwalks around the ages of 8–10 yrs. The modelling college taught Roma all aspects of modelling from how to walk, deportment, etiquette, and elocution.
Bambi Smith (née Patricia Tuckwell) was married to Athol Shmith who had a famous photography studio in Collins Street. Athol & Bambi divorced in 1957 and Bambi then went onto marry Lord Harewood, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
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