The daughter of Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, Diane Cilento was born and raised on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. She began her acting career in New York and London as a teenager, and went on to star in such films as The Admirable Crichton, Tom Jones, Hombre and The Wicker Man. Her career has also embraced theatre work, writing, translating, directing and instructing. The widow of playwright Anthony Shaffer, she now lives near Port Douglas, Queensland.
