Diane Cilento

Diane Cilento was an Australian actress who decided early on an acting career, trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in Britain in the early 1950s, and almost immediately began working on stage after graduation. Alexander Korda signed her to a five-year contract. Her first leading film part was in Passage Home (1955), and she followed it with The Woman for Joe (1955). She played Helen of Troy in Tiger at the Gates, earning a Tony Award nomination. Her performance in Tom Jones (1963) brought an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared with Charlton Heston in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) and with Paul Newman in the western Hombre (1967). She later took a supporting part in The Wicker Man (1973). She wrote The Last Tango, published novels and an autobiography, and in 2001 received a Centenary Medal for her work in the arts.