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. She was nominated for a 2002 Cesar Award for her performance in the surprise European hit, L'Auberge espagnole. Florance herself was fighting cancer during the filming. Her fans consider her a beauty and an example of "innocent sensuality". 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. In 1997 she starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Man in the Iron Mask. Her final film role was in A Woman's Tale (1991). The film introduced her to Americans in the role of Mathilde de Bellegarde.

Florance left the show in 1984 and worked in such films as Nirvana Street Murder (1990). Godrèche was not well-known to American audiences until Patrice Leconte's Ridicule was released in 1996. Her popularity was such that she won two Logie Awards as Australia's most popular television actress in 1981 and 1983. In 1994 her novel Point de côté was published in France by Broché Publishers to good reviews. 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. The daughter of a psychiatrist, at age 14 she obtained her first screen lead in Benoit Jacquot's Les Mendiants and the following year began to pursue a full-time career film and theater. In 1979 she joined the cast of the television series Prisoner (known outside of Australia as Prisoner: Cell Block H). Godrèche's first film appearance was as Claudia Cardinale's daughter in L'Ete prochain.

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). Judith Godrèche (born March 23, 1972) is a French actress and author, born in Paris, France. Sheila Florance (July 24, 1916 – October 12, 1991) was an Australian film and television actress. L'Été prochain (1985). La Saisons du plaisir (1988). Les Mendiants (1988).

La meridienne (1988). Un ete d'orages (1988). Sons (1989). La Fille de quinze ans (1989).

La Desenchantee (1990). Paris s'éveille (1991). Une nouvelle vie (1992). Tango (1992).

Grande petite (1994). L'Aube à l'envers (1995). Ridicule (1996). Beaumarchais, l'insolent (1996).

The Man in the Iron Mask (1997) - (English). Bimboland (1998). Entropy (1999) - (English). South Kensington (2001) - (English).

Quicksand (2001) - (English). Parlez-moi d'amour (2002). L'Auberge espagnole (2002). France boutique (2002).