Sheila Florance

She won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress for her work, and seven days after receiving the award, died from the disease, in Melbourne.
Adapted from the article Eva Green (http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Eva_Green), from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.. Florance herself was fighting cancer during the filming. In March 2004, she is scheduled to begin her third film as the female star alongside Orlando Bloom and Liam Neeson in director Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, scheduled for release in May of 2005. As a genteel, elderly woman, down on her luck, who reminisced with her nurse of better days, while dying of cancer, Florance gave a performance that was widely praised both within Australia, and internationally following the film's release. Described by Bertolucci as "so beautiful, it's indecent," her performance brought her critical acclaim and she has finished her second movie role in the French film, Arsene Lupin,directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and co-starring Romain Duris and Kristin Scott Thomas. Her final film role was in A Woman's Tale (1991). In addition to acting, she would like to compose music for film.

Florance left the show in 1984 and worked in such films as Nirvana Street Murder (1990). The multi-lingual Eva's name in Swedish is pronounced "grain." She studied in Paris and in London, England and performed on stage before making her film debut as the female lead in the Bernardo Bertolucci's 2003 film The Dreamers. Her popularity was such that she won two Logie Awards as Australia's most popular television actress in 1981 and 1983. A twin of Joy Green, a non-identical sister, Eva Green is the daughter of French actress Marlène Jobert and Walter Green, a Swedish dentist. As the recalcitrant, alcoholic, convicted murderer Lizzie Birdsworth, Florance became one of the show's favourite performers, and while the writers usually used her for comic relief, she was also given more subtantial dramatic storylines. Eva Green, born July 5, 1980 in Paris, France, is an actress. In 1979 she joined the cast of the television series Prisoner (known outside of Australia as Prisoner: Cell Block H).

Born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia, Florance was a frequent guest star in various television series during the 1960s and was a regular on the Bellbird series. In the 1970s she began appearing in films, most notably Petersen (1974), End Play (1975), The Devil's Playground (1976), and Mad Max (1979). Sheila Florance (July 24, 1916 – October 12, 1991) was an Australian film and television actress.