- Date de naissance
- Date de décès12 octobre 1991 · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (cancer)
- Nom de naissanceSheila Mary Florance
- Sheila Florance est née le 24 juillet 1916 en Australie. Elle était actrice. Elle est connue pour Prisoner (1979), Mad Max (1979) et A Woman's Tale (1991). Elle était mariée à Jan (John) Adam Balawaider et Roger Lightfoot Oyston. Elle est morte le 12 octobre 1991 en Australie.
- ConjointsJan (John) Adam Balawaider(3 septembre 1946 - octobre 1983) (son décès)Roger Lightfoot Oyston(19 avril 1934 - 19 juin 1944) (son décès, 4 enfants)
- Australian actress. Died of cancer in Melbourne, Australia at age 75, 9 days after winning Australian Film Institute's Best Actress award for A Woman's Tale (1991), a film where she played a woman dying of cancer.
- Started acting around 1932, living in England between 1934 and 1948, before returning to Australia where she continued to perform until her death.
- Mother of Susan, Peter Oyston and Phillip Oyston. Her granddaughter by Peter is the opera soprano Dominique Oyston. Another grandchild is Stephen Oyston.
- Best known for her role of Lizzie Birdsworth in Prisoner.
- Suffered a knee injury during the filming of Mad Max, but refused to sit out. She took off her own cast and performed her role injured throughout.
- I set out aged nineteen with every intention of becoming the world's greatest Shakespearean actress and ended up as Lizzie Birdsworth, the shearers' poisoner!
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