Wendy Hughes
Movie Actress
Australian stage and screen actress who played leading roles in such 1970s and 1980s films as My Brilliant Career and Echoes of Paradise.
She studied ballet as a child and went on to train as an actor at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Kensington, Australia.
She earned a 1983 Australian Film Institute award for her role in Careful, He Might Hear You.
Over the course of her three marriages -- to actors Sean Scully and Chris Haywood and chef Patrick Juillet -- she had two children.
She worked with director Paul Cox on many projects, including the 1982 movie Lonely Hearts.