Diane Cilento
Born	October 5, 1933 (age 73) Brisbane
Years active	1950 -
Spouse(s)	Andrea Volpe 1956-? Sean Connery 1962-1973 Anthony Shaffer 1985 - 2001
Notable roles	Molly Seagrim in Tom Jones Jessie in Hombre
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress 1963, Tom Jones (nominated)
Tony Awards
Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) 1956, for Helen of Troy in Jean Giraudoux' "Tiger at the Gates." (nominated)

Diane Cilento (born October 5, 1933 in Brisbane, Australia), is a theater and film actress. October 5 is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (279th in leap years). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia, with a greater metropolitan population of just under two million. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Australia. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond on film. ... Anthony Joshua Shaffer, (May 15, 1926 – November 6, 2001), was a English dramatist. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Hombre means man in Spanish and is sometimes used as a synonym of guy. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (279th in leap years). ... See also: 1932 in film 1933 1934 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events British Film Institute founded. ... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, as well as the third largest city in Australia, with a greater metropolitan population of just under two million. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ...

Her parents, Sir Raphael Cilento and Phyllis, Lady Cilento, were both highly respected medical practitioners. At a young age she decided 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. Sir Raphael West Cilento (December 2, 1893 - April 14, 1985), an important Australian medical doctor and administrator, was born in Jamestown, South Australia. ... // Recovering from World War II and its aftermath, the economic miracle emerged in West Germany and Italy. ...

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 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 Sean's James Bond film You Only Live Twice, Diane also doubled for Sean's co-star Mie Hama in a diving scene because Hama was ill. // The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond on film. ... Jason Joseph Connery (born January 11, 1963 in London) is an actor. ... Flemings commissioned image of James Bond to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... Ian Flemings You Only Live Twice is the fifth film in the EON Productions James Bond series, the fifth to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond 007, and the sixth film to feature James Bond. ... Mie Hama as Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice. Mie Hama (born in November 20, 1943 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress who is best known internationally for her role as Kissy Suzuki in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice. Her first name, pronounced mee-yay...

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. During the 1970s she had studied under the British mystic and spiritual teacher John G. Bennett. Anthony Joshua Shaffer, (May 15, 1926 – November 6, 2001), was a English dramatist. ... The Wicker Man is a cult 1973 British film combining thriller, existential, horror and musical genres, directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer. ... Template:A year The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... John Godolphin Bennett, (8th June 1897 - 13th December 1974) was a British mathematician, scientist, technologist, industrial research director, and author. ...

Cilento continued working as an actress, both in films and in television, and in the 1980s settled in Mossman, north of Cairns, Queensland, where she built her own outdoor theater — named "Karnak" — in the rainforest. The venture allows her to participate in experimental drama. The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... For the collection of Horsedrawn Carrages see Mossman Collection Mossman is a town of 1700 people in Far North Queensland, Australia, on the Mossman River. ... Central Cairns from Mount Whitfield looking southeast. ... Capital Brisbane Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Quentin Bryce Premier Peter Beattie (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 28  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $158,506 (3rd)  - Product per capita  $40,170/person (6th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  4,070,400 (3rd)  - Density  2. ...

She is reputed to have once kayaked naked off Mooloolaba beach on Brisbane's Sunshine Coast.

In 2006, she released her autobiography: My Nine Lives.

External links

• Interview
• From Stardom to Sufism - interview with Cilento by Rachael Kohn on ABC Radio National May 2006 (MP3/Podcast available)
• Diane Cilento at the Internet Movie Database