Cornelia Frances
Cornelia Frances | |
|---|---|
| Born | Cornelia Frances Zulver |
| Occupation | Television actress |
Cornelia Frances (born 1941, Liverpool, UK) is a British born actress based in Australia from the early 1970s.
Born as Cornelia Frances Zulver, she was educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her early work was in British-made feature films as an extra and bit-part player. This included bit parts in two films directed by her uncle Michael Powell: Peeping Tom (1960), and The Queen's Guards (1961).
Frances' acting career flourished after she had emigrated to Australia. After taking a lead role in the film version of sex-comedy soap opera The Box in 1975 she became known across Australia for her long running role of the strict and acidic Sister Grace Scott in daily soap opera The Young Doctors. After leaving that series to move to Melbourne with her husband who had been transferred there, she worked as a television reporter on "light" stories for a current affairs program hosted by Peter Couchman.
During this period she also made a brief appearance in Prisoner which was taped in the same studio as the Couchman show. Later she acted in guest starring television roles, before taking another well-remembered role, that of Barbara Hamilton in Sons and Daughters, a role she played from 1982 until 1986. She subsequently took the role of Morag Bellingham in Home and Away, a role she still plays as of 2008. She also hosted the Australian version of quiz show The Weakest Link (2001-2002) and provided the voice of the tortoise on children's series, Magic Mountain.
She lives in the Lower North Shore area of Sydney, New South Wales.
Her autobiography And what have you done lately? was published in 2003.
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