Sonia Borg | |
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Born | 20 February 1931 Vienna, Austria |
Died | 4 February 2016 (aged 84) Apollo Bay, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Nationality | Austrian |
Citizenship | Australian |
Sonia Ingeborg Borg AM (20 February 1931 – 4 February 2016) was an Australian writer and producer, who was one of the leading screenwriters of films and TV in the 1970s. She moved to Australia from Germany (Vienna, Austria) in 1961 and worked as a television actress before becoming an actors' tutor at Crawford Productions in Melbourne. She then became a writer, and worked on most of Crawfords dramas at the time. In the late 1970s she also became known for writing films about animals.