Cornelia Frances

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Cornelia Frances (born 1941, Liverpool, UK as Cornelia Frances Zulver) is a British born actress based in Australia from the early 1970s. She was educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her first role, uncredited, was in the film Peeping Tom directed by her uncle, Michael Powell.

Frances' acting career flourished after she had emigrated to Australia. After taking a lead role in the film version of sex-comedy soap opera The Box in 1975 she became known across Australia for her long running role of the strict and acidic Sister Grace Scott in The Young Doctors. After leaving that series she made a brief appearance in Prisoner and had several other guest starring television roles, before taking another well-remembered role, that of Barbara Hamilton in Sons and Daughters, a role she played from 1982 until 1986. She subsequently took the role of Morag Bellingham in Home and Away her character is a lawyer and some realation to long running character Alf Stewart, a role she still plays to this day on a recurring basis. She also hosted the Australian version of quiz show The Weakest Link (2001-2002) and provided the voice of the tortoise on children's series Magic Mountain.

She lives in the Lower North Shore area of New South Wales. Her autobiography And what have you done lately? was published in 2003.