Hazel Phillips

Hazel Phillips
OAM
Born
Hazel Julia Lovegrove[1]

17 November 1929 (1929-11-17) (age 95)
Battersea, County of London, England
NationalityBritish / Australian
Occupations
  • Singer
  • television personality
  • actress
  • talk show hostess
  • entertainer
Years active1956–present
Known forGirl Talk
Notable work

Hazel Julia Phillips (née Lovegrove) OAM (born 17 November 1929)[1][2][3] is a British singer, actress and television talk show personality with a notable career in Australia.

Phillips is also a playwright, composer and lyricist who has written numerously for the stage, been a compere of radio shows, a newspaper columnist and briefly operated a dinner cabaret restaurant.[4]

She has worked as an interviewer in Hollywood, where she interviewed numerous stars, such as Bing Crosby, Paul Newman and Omar Shariff and Fess Parker.[5][6]

Phillips has the apparent distinction of playing the world's first lesbian character on TV, the character Marie Crowther on the serial Number 96.[7]

Phillips has appeared in numerous films including the Australian film The Set in 1970 and more recently in 2021, the Netflix film Love and Monsters, and scheduled in a Paramount film starring Sam Neill, and a TV commercial for Ford motors[8]

She is often depicted as Australia's answer to Betty White in terms of career success and longevity.[5]

  1. ^ a b Phillips, Hazel (2008). Black River, Bright Star. Zeus Publications. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  2. ^ National Library of Australia record.
  3. ^ Golden Girl Hazel Phillips makes mistakes, Gold Coast Bulletin, 29 November 2008.
  4. ^ "Hazel Phillips". AusStage.
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NI was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Australia's Golden Girls: Denise Drysdale & Hazel Phillips". YouTube.
  7. ^ Giles, Nigel "Number 96: Australia's Most Infamous Address"
  8. ^ "Aussie screen legend Hazel Phillips revels the line Netflix cut".