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Cornelia Frances
Cornelia Frances Zulver, (7 April 1941 – 28 May 2018), credited professionally as Cornelia Frances, was an English-Australian actress. After starting her career in small cameos in films in her native England, she became best known for her acting career in Australia after emigrating there in the 1960s, particularly her iconic television soap opera roles with portrayals of nasty characters.
Frances featured in numerous Crawford Production series, but first became notable for starring in The Young Doctors (1976–1978), as acidic Sister later Matron Grace Scott. Subsequently, she appeared in soap opera Sons and Daughters as Barbara Armstrong Hamilton on Network Seven (1982–1986). She appeared in the film version of regular series TV soap The Box. She also worked on stage and in voice-over.
She played Morag Bellingham in Home and Away from its inception in 1988. After leaving the series she made numerous guest appearances, then re-joined the series as a permanent cast member in 2001, before going back to an itinerant basis until her final appearance in 2017.
In the early 2000s, she was the host of the Australian version of British quiz show, The Weakest Link.
Frances was born on April 7, 1941 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, to Louis Zulver, a marine engineer with Dutch heritage and Margaret (Peg) Zulver, the daughter of Irish immigrants.
When Frances was only a few weeks old, the family home was destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the Liverpool Blitz, and they moved to Purley, Surrey. Frances was educated at a Catholic convent in Surrey, from the age of 4. She became interested in music and drama, performing in Nativity plays. By the age of twelve she aspired to become an actress, much to the disapproval of the nuns at the convent.
Frances' parents divorced when she was six, and together with her mother, she went to live with her maternal uncle, and then her grandfather Cornelius. Her mother later remarried Colonel Roy Leyland, and the family moved to Yateley, Hampshire, near the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy. Through the marriage, Frances gained two step-sisters, Suzanne and Annette, and in 1957, a half-sister Francesca.
At the age of 16, Frances went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, moving in with her grandmother Frances in Marylebone, for the duration. Following the completion of her diploma, Frances' uncle, film director Michael Powell helped her secure an agent, and a few weeks later, she landed her first film role as an extra in the 1960 comedy Dentist in the Chair.
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Cornelia Frances
Cornelia Frances Zulver, (7 April 1941 – 28 May 2018), credited professionally as Cornelia Frances, was an English-Australian actress. After starting her career in small cameos in films in her native England, she became best known for her acting career in Australia after emigrating there in the 1960s, particularly her iconic television soap opera roles with portrayals of nasty characters.
Frances featured in numerous Crawford Production series, but first became notable for starring in The Young Doctors (1976–1978), as acidic Sister later Matron Grace Scott. Subsequently, she appeared in soap opera Sons and Daughters as Barbara Armstrong Hamilton on Network Seven (1982–1986). She appeared in the film version of regular series TV soap The Box. She also worked on stage and in voice-over.
She played Morag Bellingham in Home and Away from its inception in 1988. After leaving the series she made numerous guest appearances, then re-joined the series as a permanent cast member in 2001, before going back to an itinerant basis until her final appearance in 2017.
In the early 2000s, she was the host of the Australian version of British quiz show, The Weakest Link.
Frances was born on April 7, 1941 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, to Louis Zulver, a marine engineer with Dutch heritage and Margaret (Peg) Zulver, the daughter of Irish immigrants.
When Frances was only a few weeks old, the family home was destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the Liverpool Blitz, and they moved to Purley, Surrey. Frances was educated at a Catholic convent in Surrey, from the age of 4. She became interested in music and drama, performing in Nativity plays. By the age of twelve she aspired to become an actress, much to the disapproval of the nuns at the convent.
Frances' parents divorced when she was six, and together with her mother, she went to live with her maternal uncle, and then her grandfather Cornelius. Her mother later remarried Colonel Roy Leyland, and the family moved to Yateley, Hampshire, near the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy. Through the marriage, Frances gained two step-sisters, Suzanne and Annette, and in 1957, a half-sister Francesca.
At the age of 16, Frances went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, moving in with her grandmother Frances in Marylebone, for the duration. Following the completion of her diploma, Frances' uncle, film director Michael Powell helped her secure an agent, and a few weeks later, she landed her first film role as an extra in the 1960 comedy Dentist in the Chair.