Actress Diane Cilento dies at 78

Cilento after which it-husband Sean Connery in 1965.Actress Diane Cilento, who was simply Oscar nominated on her behalf supporting role in 1963's "Tom Manley" throughout focus on stage and screen, died on Thursday, March. 6, in Queensland, Australia. She was 78, dying a following day of her birthday.The attractive blonde actress -- wide eyed, getting a throaty voice -- was formerly married to Sean Connery and playwright Anthony Shaffer, and he or she came out uncredited with Connery inside the Jason Bourne film "You Just Live Two occasions" (she will be a swimming stunt double inside the film) too as with 1973 horror pic "The Wicker Guy," composed by Shaffer. Inside the latter she carried out the schoolteacher, Miss Rose.Born in Queensland, Cilento headed to England at the begining of '50s after winning a scholarship for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She started turning up in films in 1951 (she'd uncredited roles in "Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N." and "Moulin Rouge") but bigger roles showed up "Passage Home," for example, with Peter Finch.In 1956 she came a Tony nomination for role as Helen of Troy in Jean Giradoux's "Tiger within the Gates."Cilento also made an effect on American and British TV, starring in the 1956 adaptation of "Firming lower in the Shrew" for "Hallmark Hall of Fame" too as with a 1957 ITV output of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" with Connery. (The happy couple married in 1962 after she divorced Andrea Volpe, an assistant director.)Furthermore to her be employed in "Tom Manley," one of the women who lust following a title character, Cilento also came out in "The Next Secret," with Stephen Boyd "The Agony as well as the Ecstasy," with Charlton Heston and "Hombre," with Paul Newman.She also labored in TV through the sixties, starring in the 1967 adaptation of "Dial M for Murder" with Laurence Harvey for ABC and starring inside the brief Granada Television series "Rogues' Gallery."Cilento came out inside the 1978 BBC miniseries "Magnate" and starred along with her boy Jason Connery in 1985 Australian film "The Boy Who Had Everything."Cilento divorced Connery in 1973. British playwright Shaffer grew to become an associate of her when she gone to live in Queensland in 1975 (they'd met through the building of "The Wicker Guy"), as well as the couple married in 1985.Inside an Australia jungle, Cilento built and operated a effective open-air theater.The actress did her last screen acting in the recurring role inside the Australian series "Half way Within the World and Turn Left" in 1994.Cilento also composed two books, "The Manipulator" (1967) and 1971's "Hybrid."Shaffer died in 2001.Furthermore to boy Jason, children add a daughter from Cilento's first marriage, Giovanna Volpe. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com