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Sheila Florance
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Australian actress. Died of cancer in Melbourne, Australia at age 75, 9 days after winning Australian Film Institute's Best Actress award for
A Woman's Tale (1991)
, a film where she played a woman dying of cancer.
Mother of Susan,
Peter Oyston
and
Phillip Oyston
. Her granddaughter by Peter is the opera soprano
Dominique Oyston
. Another grandchild is
Stephen Oyston
.
Started acting around 1932, living in England between 1934 and 1948, before returning to Australia where she continued to perform until her death.
Best known for her role of Lizzie Birdsworth in Prisoner.
Suffered a knee injury during the filming of Mad Max, but refused to sit out. She took off her own cast and performed her role injured throughout.
Ranked 3rd out of 25 for
Prisoner (1979)
appearances, Shelia appeared in 404 episodes.
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