1. Cornelia Frances Zulver, OAM, credited professionally as Cornelia Frances, was an English-Australian actress.
17 Facts About Cornelia Frances
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Cornelia Frances appeared in the film version of regular series TV soap The Box.
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Cornelia Frances played Morag Bellingham in Home and Away from its inception in 1988.
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Cornelia Frances had a small speaking role in Herbert Ross' film adaptation of Goodbye, Mr Chips, and appeared in various theatre productions, like The Trials of Oscar Wilde.
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Cornelia Frances' acting career flourished after she emigrated to Australia in the 1960s.
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Cornelia Frances worked at the Playhouse Theatre in Perth appearing in Henry IV Parts I and 2, directed by Edgar Metcalfe, and Mary Mary, which toured regional Western Australia and played a season at the Playhouse.
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Cornelia Frances appeared nightly on television as the host of Channel 9's Tom's TV Bingo.
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Cornelia Frances guest-starred in numerous television shows, before taking another well-remembered role, that of Barbara Armstrong in Sons and Daughters, which she played from 1982 until 1986.
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Cornelia Frances played the recurring role of Morag for twenty-nine years.
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Cornelia Frances hosted the Australian version of the quiz show, The Weakest Link.
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On 26 January 2019, Cornelia Frances was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.
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In 2011, Cornelia Frances joined the Australian Orangutan Project as its first Ambassador in an effort to raise awareness about critically endangered orangutans.
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Cornelia Frances travelled to the island of Borneo, Indonesia, on 16 October 2011 to see first-hand the effect of the widespread deforestation of orangutan habitat, and how orangutans were being rehabilitated.
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In June 2016, Cornelia Frances made a sizable donation to the National Health Organisation in order to bring awareness to female reproductive health.
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Cornelia Frances married Michael Eastland in 1969; the marriage later ended in divorce.
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In January 2018, Cornelia Frances revealed that she was battling bladder cancer that had spread to her hip, but stated that she was hopeful of reprising her role of Morag in Home and Away for the show's 30th anniversary.
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Cornelia Frances died on 28 May 2018, aged 77, at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, where the show The Young Doctors was coincidentally filmed.