Dinah Shearing

Dinah Hilary Shearing (12 February 1926 – 14 June 2021) also known as Dinah Hilary Milgate before the family permanently relocated to Australia when Shearing was twelve, where she attended a public school in Sydney. as well as Dossier on Dumetrius. Other radio serials and programmes included The Colgate Hour, Macquarie Radio Theatre, Lux Radio Theatre and most notably, work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

From there, Shearing was drafted into the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and later, the Old Tote Theatre Company and gave performances that "transcended her young years", touring nationally from her Sydney base. Most memorably, she gave what critics called "the definitive" performance of Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. She also worked with the Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company and Independent Theatre. making her TV debut in the ABC play A Phoenix Too Frequent in 1957.

Honours and awards Year Work Award Category Result Ref. 1952 One Way Street Macquarie Award Best Female Lead 1985 Man of Letters Penguin Award All the Rivers Run 1993 Coriolanus Critics Award Lifetime of Excellence Glugs Theatrical Award

Personal life Shearing met playwright and painter Rodney Milgate in London and 18 months later, on 9 May 1960 they were married in Woollahra, Sydney at All Saints Church – the same church in which her parents were married. The couple had two sons.

She died on 14 June 2021, aged 95. She was survived by her two sons and four grandchildren. Her husband, Milgate died in 2014.

Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney, Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, Playhouse, Perth with J. C. Williamson's

Episode 6: "The One-Eyed Cat", Episode 14: "The Bank Vault", Episode 28: "Retribution", Episode 36: "The Dream Home", Episode 42: "Trouble at Key West"

Film Year Title Role Type Ref. 1983 Buddies Merle Feature film 1985 A Spy in the Family Feature film 2001 The Long Wet Feature film

Directorial and crew Year Title Role Type Ref. 1947 Lady Windermere's Fan Costume Designer Metropolitan Theatre Sydney