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Sheila Florance More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

24 July 1916, St. Kilda, Australia

Date of Death

12 October 1991, Melbourne, Australia (cancer)

Birth Name

Sheila Mary Florance

Spouse

Jan "John" Balawaider	(1947 - 1983) (his death)
Roger Lightfoot Oyston	(19 April 1934 - 1944) (his death) 4 children

Trivia

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 Peter Oyston. Her granddaughter by her younger son Philip is the opera soprano Dominique 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.

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