Lorraine Bayly
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Lorraine Bayly in 2012, at the premiere of Annie (musical) | |
| Born | Lorraine Daphne Bayly 16 January 1937 Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Years active | 1954–2018 |
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Lorraine Daphne Bayly AM (born 16 January 1937) is an Australian retired actress of film, television and theatre, narrator, presenter, singer, dancer, pianist and theatre director, stage manager and writer.
Bayly has been a performer since she was a child, and became a professional actress in 1954, 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.
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.