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Diane Cilento dies at 78

Fri, Oct 07 2011 14:32 CET

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Diane Cilento dies at 78

Diane Cilento with Peter Finch, her co-star in the 1955 movie Passage Home

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Diane Cilento, first wife of Sean Connery, has died in Australia aged 78.

Cilento, who gave excellent performances in Hombre (1966) and The Wicker Man (1972), had recently written an autobiography in which she detailed her sometimes stormy marriage to Connery. She divorced him in 1973.

In 1985, she married Anthony Shaffer, who had written the script of The Wicker Man.

Her son with Sean Connery, Jason, became a big star on British television in the 1980s when he starred as the lead in Robin of Sherwood.

Cilento appeared with her son in the 1983 movie The Boy Who Had Everything in which she played his emotionally damaged, alcoholic mother.

In the 1980s she settled in Mossman north of Cairns where she built her own outdoor theatre, named Karnak, in the rainforest.

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