1. Elizabeth Diane Cilento was an Australian actress.
14 Facts About Diane Cilento
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Diane Cilento is best known for her film roles in Tom Jones, which earned her an Academy Award nomination, Hombre and The Wicker Man.
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Diane Cilento received a Tony Award nomination for her performance as Helen of Troy in the play Tiger at the Gates.
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Diane Cilento was the fifth of six children; four of her siblings became medical practitioners, while her sister Margaret was an artist.
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Diane Cilento later won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and moved to Britain in the early 1950s.
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Diane Cilento's first leading film role was in the British film Passage Home, opposite fellow Australian Peter Finch.
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Diane Cilento was in The Woman for Joe playing a Hungarian.
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Diane Cilento soon secured roles in British films and worked steadily until the end of the decade.
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Diane Cilento was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Tom Jones in 1963 and appeared in The Third Secret the following year.
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Diane Cilento starred with Charlton Heston in the 1965 film The Agony and the Ecstasy, and with Paul Newman in the 1967 western film Hombre, and had a supporting role in The Wicker Man.
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Diane Cilento continued working as an actress, in films and television.
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Diane Cilento gave birth to their daughter Giovanna in 1957.
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In 1985, Diane Cilento married playwright Anthony Shaffer, whom she met in 1972 while working on The Wicker Man.
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Diane Cilento died of cancer at Cairns Base Hospital on 6 October 2011.