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Diane Cilento (born October 5, 1933 in film|1933
in Brisbane Queensland) is a theater and film
actor|actress. 

Her parents Sir Raphael Cilento and Lady Phyllis
Cilento, were both highly respected medical
practitioners.  She decided at a young age to
follow a career as an actress and moved to the
United Kingdom in the early 1950s.  She quickly
secured work in British films and steadily worked
until the end of the decade without making a major
impression with film audiences.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress for her role in Tom Jones
(movie)|Tom Jones (1963), but allowed her film
career to decline following her marriage to actor
Sean Connery.  Connery was the second of Cilento's
three husbands, and they were married from 1962
until their divorce in 1973.  They are the parents
of the actor Jason Connery.

In 1985 she married Anthony Shaffer a playwright,
who wrote the script of The Wicker Man a film in
which she had appeared in 1973.

Cilento continued working as an actress both in
films and television, and in the 1980s settled
near Cairns, Queensland|Cairns Australia, where
she built her own outdoor theater, named "Karnak",
in the rainforest.  The venture allows her to
participate in experimental theater.





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