Hazel Phillips

Hazel Phillips
  

Hazel Julia Phillips (née Lovegrove) OAM (born 17 November 1929) is a British-Australian singer, actress and television talk show personality with a notable career in Australia.

She is also a playwright, composer and lyricist who has written numerously for the stage, and compere of radio shows and a newspaper columnist and briefly operated a dinner cabaret restaurant.

Phillips worked as an interviewer in Hollywood, where she interviewed numerous such stars as Bing Crosby, Paul Newman and Omar Shariff and Fess Parker.

Phillips has the distinction of apparently playing the world's first lesbian character on TV, on the serial Number 96, as Marie Crowther.

Phillips has appeared in numerous films including the Australian film The Set in 1970 and more recently in 2021, the Netflix film Love and Monsters, and scheduled in a Paramount film starring Sam Neill, and a TV commercial for Ford motors

She is often depicted as Australia's answer to Betty White in terms of career success and longevity.


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