Lorraine Bayly

Lorraine Bayly
AM
Lorraine Bayly in 2012, at the premier of Annie (musical)
Born
Lorraine Daphne Bayly

(1937-01-16) 16 January 1937 (age 87)
Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia
Occupations
  • Film television and theatre actress
  • presenter
  • pianist
  • singer
  • dancer
  • theatre founder
  • director
  • stage manager
  • writer
Years active1954–2018[1]
Known for

Lorraine Daphne Bayly AM (born 16 January 1937) is an Australian actress of film, television and theatre, narrator, presenter, singer, dancer, pianist and theatre director, stage manager and writer.[1]

Bayly has been a performer since she was a child, and became a professional actress in 1954,[1] having started as a theatre performer. She is perhaps best known to small screen audiences for her soap opera roles, especially in the World War II period-piece drama The Sullivans as matriarch Grace Sullivan, as well as roles in legal drama Carson's Law as Jennifer Carson and briefly in serial Neighbours as Faye Hudson, the sister of patriarch Doug Willis played by Terence Donovan.[2]

She is well-known also for having been a presenter of children's television series Play School as an original presenter in 1966 until 1978.[3]

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